Setting Up Access to URLs from BEx in the Federated Portal Network

When using a SAP NetWeaver 7.x portal with contents from BEx as the producer portal and a central SAP NetWeaver 7.x portals as the consumer portal, users are generally only authorized to log on to the consumer portal.

If users call URLs from the BEx tools or create bookmarks, and add these to the favorites in the web browser, or if they send online links to the portal using the BEx Information Broadcasting online links, the bookmarks and online links are created with the producer portal's host name and port.

This section provides information about the settings that you have to make to ensure that the URLs always point to the consumer portal. This ensures that users do not need to log on to the producer portal anymore.

The following URLs from BEx are affected:

• URLs that are created from BEx Web Application Designer and BEx Query Designer
• URLs for bookmarks
• URLs for the Report-Report Interface
• URLs that are created in BEx Broadcaster when sending online links

To allow access to the URLs, you need to make settings in Customizing and define a remote delta link iView.

If you are using more than one producer portal, you need to set a system parameter in every BW system that is connected to a producer portal. This ensures that a different URL is generated for the consumer portal for each BW system.

1. Define Host Name and Port

In the BW system in Customizing table RSPOR_T_PORTAL (transaction SM30), replace the host name and port in table field Portal URL Prefix(URL_PREFIX) with the host name and port of the central portal (consumer portal).

The system uses these table entries to determine the host name and port for the URLs.

2. Set System Parameter (only if using more than one producer portal)

If you are using more than one producer portal, start report SAP_RSADMIN_MAINTAIN in every BW system that is connected to a producer portal and set parameter RS_BEX_FPN_IVIEW_SUFFIX.

This parameter causes a suffix to be added to the URLs. This suffix denotes the producer portal in question.

3. Define iView to Start the URLs

To start the underlying BEx Web application, the system uses the same fixed iView in the portal. To guarantee access to the central portal (consumer portal), the iView specified in the URL must also exist in the consumer portal.

The activities listed below illustrate how to create an iView taking as an example the BEx Web iView (com.sap.ip.bi.bex):

1. If iView pcd:portal_content/com.sap.pct/platform_add_ons/com.sap.ip.bi/iViews/com.sap.ip.bi.bex is in your consumer portal, change the iView's object ID to bex_consumer.

   To do this, choose the following path in the consumer portal: Portal Content → Content Provided by SAP → Platform Add-Ons → Business Intelligence → iViews → BEx Web.

2. Choose Portal Content → SAP NetWeaver Content Producers → <Producer_Alias> → Portal Content → Content Provided by SAP → Platform Add-Ons → Business Intelligence → iViews → BEx Web and select the remote iView pcd: NetWeaver_content_producers/<Producer_Alias>/portal_content/…
3. Choose the copy option in the context menu.
4. Choose Portal Content → Content Provided by SAP → Platform Add-Ons → Business Intelligence → iViews and select folder pcd:portal_content/com.sap.pct/platform_add_ons/com.sap.ip.bi/iViews.
5. In the context menu, choose the option for insertion as local content.

   The system creates remote delta link iView pcd:portal_content/com.sap.pct/platform_add_ons/com.sap.ip.bi/iViews/com.sap.ip.bi.bex.

6. Choose System Administration → Authorizations  → Authorizations for the Portal.
7. Navigate to iViewpcd:portal_content/com.sap.pct/platform_add_ons/com.sap.ip.bi/iViews/com.sap.ip.bi.bex.
8. In the context menu, select the authorization for opening.
9. Add user group Everyone to the authorization.
10. Select the checkbox for end users.
11. Save the authorization.
    Note

    The activities described above also apply for the other iViews used for various usage scenarios:

    • BEx Broadcaster (com.sap.ip.bi.bex_broadcaster)
    • BEx Web 3.x (com.sap.ip.bi.bex3x)
    • BEx Web (RRI) (com.sap.ip.bi.rritransaction)

The remote delta link iView forwards the URL query from the central portal (consumer portal) to the relevant portal with the BEx objects (producer portal). The users can now access the URLs without having to log on to a producer portal.

Example of how to set the system parameter when using more than one producer portal

URL to start BEx Web applications from BEx Web Application Designer without the parameter set:

<protocol>://<server>:<port>/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/pcd!3aportal_content!2fcom.sap.pct!2fplatform_add_ons!2fcom.sap.ip.bi!2fiViews!2fcom.sap.ip.bi.bex

Example of a value for parameter RS_BEX_FPN_IVIEW_SUFFIX: _pro1

URL to start BEx Web applications from BEx Web Application Designer with the parameter set:

<protocol>://<server>:<port>/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/pcd!3aportal_content!2fcom.sap.pct!2fplatform_add_ons!2fcom.sap.ip.bi!2fiViews!2fcom.sap.ip.bi.bex_pro1