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Use

You can integrate BEx and BW objects into the portal using the role upload function.

Role upload is a function that you can use for the following scenarios:

  • You want to continue using existing role definitions for a BW system in the portal.
  • You want to use objects from a BW system (Web applications for example) as content objects to build your roles in the portal. This means these objects have to be available in the portal.
  • Initially, you upload all relevant roles and objects from the BW system to the portal. In future, you want to create and maintain all of your content objects in the portal.
  • You upload newly created role definitions from the back end system to the portal at regular intervals. You mainly do this if using the BW system as the leading system. In this case, you continue creating your roles in the BW system and use the portal for display and navigation purposes only.
Prerequisites

Before you can upload objects to the portal from the BW system, the following conditions have to be met:

  • SAP Basis Plug-In

    You need the SAP Basis Plug-In into every BW system that you want to upload from. Only then will the functions needed for the upload be completely available.

  • Authorizations in the BW System

    You need authorization S_RFC in the BW system for function group PWP2.

  • Configuration of the system landscape in the portal

    You need to create a system in the portal within the portal system landscape for every BW system that you upload objects from.

    More information: Automatically Configuring BI Java .

 

For more information about the functions of role upload, see Upload of Roles from Back End Based Systems .