Jumping Using the Report-Report Interface in the Portal 

Use

The framework of the report-report interface enables you to transfer parameters from a BEx Web application to other applications. These applications are usually queries, BEx Web applications, ABAP reports, SAP transactions or Web addresses (URLs).

The portal runs in a separate Web browser and has its own start URL. When using functions of the report-report interface, you can jump to other applications without the portal. For this reason, the header area and the navigation panel are not displayed when you call a BI-based URL as a jump target.

When you want to use jumping with the report-report interface within the portal, and want to stay within the portal desktop, you must be aware of the following:

●     You have to use a Web address with the portal URL. You cannot use a BI-based URL.

●     The portal allows you to navigate to a special iView because it uses the URL parameter NavigationTarget.

●     In addition, the portal URL parameter DynamicParameter, allows application-specific URL parameters to be transferred to the application that is displayed in the iView. These parameters must be coded.

A portal URL has the following format:

<portal_protocol>://<portal_server>/irj/portal 

?NavigationTarget=ROLES://portal_content/...

&DynamicParameter=...

You must specify this format as a Web address within the report-report interface. The portal URL can include a placeholder for the host name and port of the portal server. For more information, see SAP Note 716121.

If you want to transfer values from a BEx Web application iView to another BEx Web application iView, you have to transfer the filter characteristics and the filter values with the URL parameter DynamicParameter. You can also transfer values from compound characteristics.

The BI URL parameters are transferred through the portal framework using a single portal URL parameter, the DynamicParameter. The BI URL parameters must be coded so that multiple BI URL parameters can be combined and can be transferred as a parameter value to the parameter DynamicParameter. The coding is automatic, ’=’ is replaced with ‘%3D’ and ’&’ with ‘%26’.

See SAP Note 853072 for SAP BW 3.x.

In SAP BW 3.x, the Web template has the attribute Display Jump Target In (RRI_DISPLAY_TARGET). If this attribute has the value _top, the target iView (jump target) appears in the same browser window. The portal header is not displayed more than once.

Features

Creating Web Addresses as Receiver

The section, Determining the Path of the iView, describes how to determine the NavigationTarget component of the Web address.

Transferring Parameters

The Maintaining Sender-Receiver Assignment for the BEx Web Application iView and Maintaining Sender-Receiver Assignments for SAP Transaction iViews sections describe how to create the DynamicParameter component of the Web address and how you determine the field names for the assignment details.

 

See also:

For more information about the steps required to create Web addresses, see Creating a Web Address as a Receiver.

For more information about the assignment details, see Maintaining Assignment Details.