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Use

You can integrate an Internet Application Components (IACs) as an iView with no difficulty by selecting the SAP IAC template in the iView Wizard. The template is automatically installed with SAP Enterprise Portal.

Internet Application Components are complete business solutions for linking mySAP.com components to the Internet. With IACs users can access business information in mySAP.com components by starting SAP transactions, function modules or reports from a Web browser.

Prerequisites

  • You selected the SAP IAC iView template in step 1 of the iView Wizard and followed the instructions given by the Wizard. More information: Launching the iView Wizard and General Information .

  • A system is configured with the Internet Transaction Server (ITS).

    The system must also have a valid alias, which is entered in the System property of the iVIew. More information: Understanding System Aliases .

Process

You must maintain the following properties in order to display an Internet Application Component in the portal as an iView:

Mandatory fields:

  • System

  • Internet Application Component (IAC)

Optional fields:

  • ApplicationParameter

  • Logon Language

  • Internet Application Component (IAC) Alternate Path

  • Customer Exits for 'ParameterProvider'

  • Do not forward these parameters to the IAC

  • Parameters Forwarded to IAC

You can find general information about maintaining iView properties in Editing Object Properties and Editing iView Properties .

System

Enter the system alias for the desired SAP System.

The system alias refers to a SAP system that was defined in the portal. If you creating a new system, see SAP Note 761917 Information published on SAP site.

IAC

Enter the required ID for the Internet Application Component here. This field is required.

ApplicationParameter

You can enter parameter values for certain screen fields for displaying an Internet Application Component here. This field is optional.

The parameter values are specified with the following syntax:

<Screen_field1>=<Parameter1>

&<Screen_field2>=<Parameter2>

&<...>=<...>,...

Internet Application Component (IAC) Alternate Path

If the specified application resides in a location other than …/sap/bc/gui/sap/its/ , use this property to indicate the location. Leave out the application name at the end of the path; this is maintained in the IAC property.

Note

The application residing in a different location means that it is either deeper in the hierarchical tree or in another location altogether.

Logon Language

In this field you enter the language in which the Internet Application Component should be displayed.

The possible values are the language codes according to ISO 639. This field is optional. If you do not make an entry in this field, the portal language is used.

Customer Exits for 'ParameterProvider'

A customer exit is a way to extend the functionality of the Application Integration by creating a custom code.

In this field you can enter the name of the field for the customer exit.

entry path="/com.sap.portal.appintegrator/customer_exits/parameter_provider/<field_name>"

Parameters Forwarded to IAC

In this field you can enter the parameters names that you want to forward to the IAC.

The parameters are transferred to the ApplicationIntegration service in the request as part of the query string.

If you want to forward all the parameters, you can enter the value asterisk (*).

Do not forward these parameters to the IAC

This field is only relevant if the value of the property Parameters Forwarded to IAC is an asterisk (*).

In this field you can enter the parameters that you want to exclude from the IAC.