Portal Usage and Administration

Navigation

Feature	Type of Change	Description
Navigation Zoom	New	The navigation zoom feature enables users to view isolated subject areas of the portal separately from the rest of the portal. Content administrators can define a navigation node in the Detailed Navigation iView as a navigation zoom point. At runtime, navigation zoom points appear as folders with an arrow inside the folder icon. Clicking a navigation zoom point replaces the main portal screen with a screen displaying a subset of the navigation hierarchy. Clicking the arrow beside the navigation zoom point in the Detailed Navigation iView expands that folder to reveal its contents, without replacing the portal screen. Administrators can also define a different portal desktop and title for the navigation zoom. More Information: Configuring Navigation Zoom
Adding Tooltips to Navigation Nodes	New	Administrators can now add tooltips to navigation nodes. The tooltip appears at runtime in top-level navigation, detailed navigation, workset maps, and service maps. In the administration environment, the tooltip also appears when hovering over the tab of the object editor. The tooltip does not appear when the portal is in accessibility mode. More information: Adding Tooltips to Navigation Nodes
Preloading Roles to the Navigation Cache	New	The `cachepreloader` service allows you to upload all of a user’s roles into the navigation cache. Administrators can specify multiple user IDs, and when the `cachepreloader` service starts, all of the roles belonging to the specified users are uploaded into the cache. More information: Configuring the Navigation Cache
Top-level Navigation Overflow	New	An overflow menu has been added to the Top-Level Navigation iView in the portal. More Information: Configuring Levels of Top-Level Navigation
Pictograms in Service Maps and Workset Maps	Enhanced	The Pictogram is Clickable property has been added to the Service Map iView and the Workset Map iView. This allows you to specify whether the images in the service map or workset map can be clicked. Clicking on the pictogram triggers navigation to first-level items. More information: Navigation with a Service Map and Navigation with a Workset Map
Sorting Top-Level Navigation Entries	Enhanced	Until now, entry points in top-level navigation were always sorted according to sort priority. You can now configure the `navigation_events_helper` service to sort the nodes alphabetically, or first by sort priority and then alphabetically. More information: Defining the Sort Sequence of Navigation Nodes
Detailed Navigation	Changed	The Display Parent of Hidden Node property enables administrators to determine whether the first visible parent of an invisible object is displayed in detailed navigation. The default value of this property has been changed to Yes. More information: Features Enabled Through DTN Properties

URL iViews

Feature	Type of Change	Description
Setting Language-Specific URLs	New	You can now define more than one source URL for Web-based URL iViews (refer to Creating Web-based URL iViews). Apart from the default URL, which is not language-specific, you can define any number of additional URLs; each one corresponding to a different language. If a portal user's language matches a language defined in the iView, then the corresponding language-specific URL will be executed at runtime. The default URL functions as the fallback URL if no language-specific URL matches the user's language. Defining multiple URLs per iView is useful for sites that support multiple languages by means of language-specific URLs; for example, you can define URLs that are language variants of the default `www.google.com` URL of Google, such as `www.google.de` and `www.google.jp`. In other cases, you can define in the same iView, variant URLs that reference different Web sites. More information: Adding Language-Specific URLs
New Data Types for Dynamic Queries	New	URL iViews now include two new data types for URL parameters: `User Information`: accepts a value that corresponds to a logical attribute in the UME (User Management Engine) API. `System Information`: accepts a value that corresponds to an attribute in the Portal Runtime (PRT) request object. Before the iView sends a request to its target URL at runtime, the iView first sends a query to the UME or PRT, as defined by the content administrator. The value returned by the query is then integrated on-the-fly into the iView's URL at runtime, instead of the static parameter value. The parameters are available for editing in the URL iView Editor. More information: Configuring URL Parameters
Setting Dynamic Runtime URLs	New	The URL for a URL iView can now be set by a request parameter, instead of just by a property of the URL iView. This feature is helpful if you want to be able to display many different Web pages, but you do not want to create a URL iView for each Web page. Now, you can create one URL iView and send the URL in a request parameter. More information: Setting a Dynamic Runtime URL

Feature

Type of Change

Description

Setting Language-Specific URLs

New

You can now define more than one source URL for Web-based URL iViews (refer to Creating Web-based URL iViews). Apart from the default URL, which is not language-specific, you can define any number of additional URLs; each one corresponding to a different language.

If a portal user's language matches a language defined in the iView, then the corresponding language-specific URL will be executed at runtime. The default URL functions as the fallback URL if no language-specific URL matches the user's language.

Defining multiple URLs per iView is useful for sites that support multiple languages by means of language-specific URLs; for example, you can define URLs that are language variants of the default www.google.com URL of Google, such as www.google.de and www.google.jp. In other cases, you can define in the same iView, variant URLs that reference different Web sites.

More information: Adding Language-Specific URLs

New Data Types for Dynamic Queries

New

URL iViews now include two new data types for URL parameters:

User Information: accepts a value that corresponds to a logical attribute in the UME (User Management Engine) API.

System Information: accepts a value that corresponds to an attribute in the Portal Runtime (PRT) request object.

Before the iView sends a request to its target URL at runtime, the iView first sends a query to the UME or PRT, as defined by the content administrator. The value returned by the query is then integrated on-the-fly into the iView's URL at runtime, instead of the static parameter value.

The parameters are available for editing in the URL iView Editor.

More information: Configuring URL Parameters

Setting Dynamic Runtime URLs

New

The URL for a URL iView can now be set by a request parameter, instead of just by a property of the URL iView.

This feature is helpful if you want to be able to display many different Web pages, but you do not want to create a URL iView for each Web page. Now, you can create one URL iView and send the URL in a request parameter.

More information: Setting a Dynamic Runtime URL

Object-Based Navigation (OBN)

Feature	Type of Change	Description
Business Object Wizard	New	SAP NetWeaver Portal now enables the creation of new business objects, for use by object-based navigation, by means of a new wizard. The wizard can create both context and system business objects. It is no longer necessary to import system business objects from portal systems. However, the Business Object Importer remains available for backward compatibility. More information: Creating a New Business Object
OBN Cache	New	The object-based navigation feature of SAP NetWeaver Portal now maintains a repository to cache OBN data. The OBN cache improves the performance of navigation to previously used OBN targets. More information: Enabling the OBN Cache

Feature

Type of Change

Description

Business Object Wizard

New

SAP NetWeaver Portal now enables the creation of new business objects, for use by object-based navigation, by means of a new wizard. The wizard can create both context and system business objects.

It is no longer necessary to import system business objects from portal systems. However, the Business Object Importer remains available for backward compatibility.

More information: Creating a New Business Object

OBN Cache

New

The object-based navigation feature of SAP NetWeaver Portal now maintains a repository to cache OBN data.

The OBN cache improves the performance of navigation to previously used OBN targets.

More information: Enabling the OBN Cache

Administration of the Portal Content Directory (PCD)

Feature	Type of Change	Description
Modifying PCD Configuration Properties Online	New	It is now possible to modify some of the configuration properties of the PCD Generic Layer service, without restarting the server. This is done in SAP NetWeaver Administrator. In the Java System Properties page, under Extended Details tab, the Properties table lists all the properties of the PCD service. The Properties table now has a Modifiable column with a checkbox. A selected check box indicates that the property can be modified online. Modifying other properties, which cannot be modified online, is done via the AS Java Config Tool, which requires to restart the server in order for changes to take effect. Note The following files no longer exist: `pcdStartUp.properties` and `pcdStartUp.template.properties`. End of the note. More information: Configuring the PCD
Logging Changes to PCD Objects	New	It is now possible to log changes to PCD objects. This includes changes made by the Transport mechanism, by the `GenericCreator` service (see XML Content and Actions), by content administration editors, as well as changes made by users. You configure PCD logging in SAP NetWeaver Administrator, using the following online-modifiable property: `Pcd.Gl.AdminTraceability.Active` The following are examples of changes that are logged: creation of an object, deletion of an object, renaming of an object, changing of permissions. You can configure the class of the objects to log, the path of the objects to log, the location of the log file, and more. More information: Logging Changes to PCD Objects

Feature

Type of Change

Description

Modifying PCD Configuration Properties Online

New

It is now possible to modify some of the configuration properties of the PCD Generic Layer service, without restarting the server. This is done in SAP NetWeaver Administrator. In the Java System Properties page, under Extended Details tab, the Properties table lists all the properties of the PCD service. The Properties table now has a Modifiable column with a checkbox. A selected check box indicates that the property can be modified online.

Modifying other properties, which cannot be modified online, is done via the AS Java Config Tool, which requires to restart the server in order for changes to take effect.

Note Note

The following files no longer exist: pcdStartUp.properties and pcdStartUp.template.properties.

End of the note.

More information: Configuring the PCD

Logging Changes to PCD Objects

New

It is now possible to log changes to PCD objects. This includes changes made by the Transport mechanism, by the GenericCreator service (see XML Content and Actions), by content administration editors, as well as changes made by users.

You configure PCD logging in SAP NetWeaver Administrator, using the following online-modifiable property: Pcd.Gl.AdminTraceability.Active

The following are examples of changes that are logged: creation of an object, deletion of an object, renaming of an object, changing of permissions.

You can configure the class of the objects to log, the path of the objects to log, the location of the log file, and more.

More information: Logging Changes to PCD Objects

Miscellaneous Features

Feature	Type of Change	Description
iView Tray Property	New	A new property, Show ‘Expand’/’Collapse’ Icon in Tray, has been added to the list of iView properties. Until now, the Expand/Collapse icon appeared by default in the iView tray. You can now configure the tray so that it appears without this icon. More information: iView Properties
Providing Remote Support	New	There is now documentation describing how to access the portal of another computer remotely through the SAP service connection to provide remote support. More information: Providing Remote Support
Language Localization for Anonymous Users	New	Anonymous users can change their portal language by selecting a language from a dropdown list in the portal masthead. This feature must be enabled by an administrator. Anonymous Users: Anonymous users can change the portal language by selecting the relevant language from the new language dropdown list in the portal masthead. If the anonymous user logs on as an authenticated user, the dropdown list disappears from the masthead, and the portal appears in the language that was defined for that user. More Information: Understanding the Portal Interface Administrators: Portal administrators can enable the language dropdown list by setting the Show Dropdown List in Masthead: Language Personalization for Anonymous Users property in the Masthead iView. More information: Default Framework Pages
Find tool	Enhanced	The Find tool in the Portal Catalog has been enhanced and now enables you to: Increase your search to multiple object types, and not just one object type per search. Refine your search by adding property-based filters to your search query. For example, one or more properties of an iView. Specify an approximate timeout on the amount of time the system searches the Portal Catalog for the search query. The default time is 30 seconds. Filter your search results by object type. This is useful if you have a long list of results, and want to view objects of a certain type only. Save your search results in an Excel file. More information: Searching the Portal Catalog
Desktop Editor	Enhanced	To enable you to locate desktop components in the Portal Catalog, a button has been added to the Desktop Editor. The Locate in Portal Catalog button marks the location of the selected desktop component in the Portal Catalog tree. More information: Creating and Editing a Portal Desktop
Object Wizards	Enhanced	When creating new folders, pages, and layouts using the relevant wizards, you can now press `Enter` after typing the object name, and the text in the Name field is copied into the ID field.
Advanced Operations	Enhanced	The Copy/Paste, Cut/Paste, Change ID, and Delete wizards have a new look and feel. Functionality remains the same
Personalizing Pages	Enhanced	When personalizing pages in the Personalization dialog box, you can now drag and drop iViews and pages to rearrange them within the layout containers. More information: Personalizing Portal Pages
Deleting Objects in the Portal Catalog	Enhanced	When deleting objects from the Portal Catalog, the Delete wizard now checks whether there are any objects with a delta link relationship to the object being deleted. You can choose whether or not to delete any dependent objects. More information: Deleting a Folder or Object
Find and Replace	Changed	The Multiple Property Replacement tool in the Content Administration role is no longer available. Its capabilities have been integrated as the Find and Replace feature in the Find tool in the Portal Catalog. More information: Finding and Replacing Portal Properties
Portal Object IDs	Changed	The percentage (%) character is no longer supported when creating new portal objects. Existing objects created before the current version are not affected.