Creating Wizards

This section describes how to use the wizard framework to create wizards for creating portal objects in the PCD.

The wizard framework enables you to create administration wizards for creating new portal content. After creating and deploying a wizard, you can specify within a new portal component that your wizard be run whenever an administrator starts to create a new iView based on this component.edits an iView or other PCD object based on the new component.

Note Note

The wizard framework enables you to create generic wizards. The wizard toolkit provides additional wizard functionality for creating iViews and other PCD objects.

For more information on the wizard toolkit, see the com.sap.portal.admin.wizard packages in the Javadocs.

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This section describes the following:

Architecture: Background information on the wizard framework.
How to Create a Wizard: How to use the wizard framework API to build a wizard.
Essential Information: The portalapp.xml configuration and the JAR files for working with the wizard framework.

Assigning a Wizard

You can assign a wizard to a portal component so that when an administrator creates an iView or portal object from a template based on the portal component, the wizard is run.

To assign an editor to a portal component, set the com.sap.portal.reserved.iview.WizardURL property in the <component-config> element of the portal component's deployment descriptor to the full name of the wizard component. For more information on the wizard component, see Step 2: Creating the Wizard Component.