You can publish queries from the BEx Query Designer, Web applications from the BEx Web Application Designer and reports from the BEx Report Designer as iViews in the Portal Content Directory (PCD).
With Web applications, you define and save them in the BEx Web Application Designer as Web Templates. The Web templates executed in the Web browser are called BEx Web Applications. If you publish the Web templates in the PCD, they are available as BEx Web Application iViews in the PCD.
Queries and reports are also available after publishing as BEx Web Application iViews in the PCD because, from a technical standpoint, they are based on Web templates.
You have created and saved a query, Web template or report and can now make it available as an iView in the Portal Content Directory.
Technical Name and Description of the iView
In the publish dialog, the system automatically proposes the technical name and description of the BI object (query, Web template, report). You can change this default name.
Folder Name
Use Selection to open the dialog for selecting the folder in PCD. Expand the PCD root folder and select the required folder in which the iView is to be stored.
Portal content administrators (users with the portal role content_admin_role) are able to see the contents of the Portal Content Directory in the portal under Content Administration → Portal Content. Access can be restricted to certain folders in the Portal Content Directory using authorizations.
To make the iView visible to users in the portal, the iView has to be assigned to a portal role or a portal page that is included in a portal role. This takes place in the Portal Content Studio.
The portal cache is not automatically activated for the iView. Activation of the portal cache is done using the Portal Content Studio.
For more information, see Integration Using the Portal Content Studio.
You can get to the dialog box for publishing the BI object as follows:
BEx Query Designer: In the menu bar, choose Query → Publish → To the Portal. See Functions in the Menu Query.
BEx Web Application Designer: In the menu bar, choose Web Template → Publish → To the Portal. See Functions in the Menu Query.
BEx Report Designer: In the menu bar, choose Report → Publish → To the Portal. See Functions in the Menu Query.