Creating Business Suite Content 
The Business Suite components enable you to create template-based portal content objects, the rules of which comply with the standards of SAP Business Suite applications.
Although you create Business Suite content models exactly as described in Creating Portal Content Objects, the portal content modeling workflow includes the creation of specific containers for Business Suite content, which also determine how that content is displayed during runtime.
Container |
Description |
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Business Suite content container |
Constitutes the infrastructure for modeling Business Suite content. Although you can model other Business Suite elements individually, the content container must include all elements for them to appear at runtime. |
Business Suite work center |
The work center, and its contents, is displayed to a business user in the portal at runtime. You model the work center by adding relevant content to it, according to Business Suite rules:
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Business Suite home page |
The Business Suite home page is displayed in the work area of the portal at runtime when a view is selected. Before adding content (iViews or pages) to a view, you must first create a home page to contain this content. |
The Portal Layout board, as seen in the following illustration, simulates the portal navigation panel and work area. This illustration shows:
The Business Suite content container, which includes two work centers
The selected work center shows the Detailed Navigation of the portal, which contains two views. The selected view shows the content being modeled in its home page on the Portal Layout board.
In the Dynamic Navigation and Related Services areas, you can create any content you consider appropriate to these areas in the portal.
Information about the Business Suite workflow and the Business Suite-specific content models is described in the following procedure. Information about creating these elements is described in Creating Portal Content Objects.
Procedure
Create a Business Suite content container.
Create one or more Business Suite work centers.
Create one or more Business Suite views for each work center.
Model each view to contain a collection of related content
For each view, create a home page.
Create new content (pages and iViews, which are relevant to the specific view), within the home page.
Drag iViews and/or pages onto the home page to create the display the user sees at runtime. You can create new iView or page models by dragging the element icons from the Compose task panel onto the home page; you can also search for existing content and drag it onto the home page.
Add the view to the work center.
Note
It is important to note that the procedure described here need not be sequential. Portal content modeling is flexible, meaning that you can create models from within existing models (such as when you drag a page model into a workset model), or you can create each model independently and reuse them (for example, a previously created page can be dragged into several models).
See High-Level Architecture and Workflow.
Result
The following is an illustration of how a completed Business Suite work center might appear at runtime.
