Setting Up Broadcasting in Federated Portal Networks

Organizations can implement a federated portal network to share content simultaneously between portals.

A federated portal network allows organizations with distributed portal installations, both SAP and non-SAP, to provide a single portal access point for each user. This allows the users to access information, services, and applications that are distributed in portals throughout the entire organizational network. This implementation allows existing content and configurations to be used, and minimizes the administration effort required.

In a federated portal network, multiple portals are linked to one another, thus enabling them to share content. A portal that exposes its content for consumption by other portals in the network is called the producer portal. A portal that accesses and uses content provided by other portals in the network is called a consumer portal. At runtime, iViews that are running in a producer portal are remotely displayed in the consumer portal.

There are various options in KM for broadcasting BEx objects in federated portal networks.

Setting Up Broadcasting Using WebDAV Repository Managers

Set up information broadcasting using WebDAV repository managers. You can choose whether to store the documents in the consumer portal or in the producer portal.

We recommend using this option.

More information:Setting Up Broadcasting Using WebDAV Repository Managers

Setting Up Broadcasting Using KM Navigation iViews or CM Repository Managers

Alongside the options for setting up information broadcasting using WebDAV repository managers, you have the following additional options for integrating and calling the documents:

• Information broadcasting using KM navigation iViews
• Information broadcasting using CM Repository Manager
• Information broadcasting using the Information and Content Exchange protocol (ICE)

More information:Setting Up Broadcasting Using KM Navigation iViews or CM Repository Managers

You have set up broadcasting of BEx objects in a federated portal network. When broadcasting the documents to Any Folder in BEx Broadcaster, users can therefore select the folders that you have set up (in the input help under CM Repository View) as broadcasting targets.

More information

For more information, see SAP NetWeaver Library: Function-Oriented View → Enterprise Portal  → Portal   → Implementing Advanced Portal Scenarios  → Implementing a Federated Portal Network.