Configuration for Information Broadcasting (SAP Library

Configuration for Information Broadcasting

Purpose

To use information broadcasting, you must first configure the system in various SAP NetWeaver areas.

Prerequisites

You have installed the necessary components for information broadcasting. For more information, see service.sap.com/installNW70 ® Installation.

Process Flow

1. If you want to distribute content from Business Intelligence to the portal, follow the configuration steps for integrating content from BI to the portal. For more information, see the SAP Reference IMG ® SAP Customizing Implementation Guide ® SAP NetWeaver ® Business Intelligence ® Settings for Reporting and Analysis ® BEx Web ® Integration into the Portal.

2. If users in the portal want to use the content from BI to hold discussions, add personal notes, or provide feedback, activate and configure the corresponding collaboration services. For more information, see Collaboration Services.

1. If you want to allow users in the portal to subscribe to KM folders or individual documents, activate and configure the subscription service. For more information, see Subscription Service.

2. If you want to be able to distribute Business Intelligence content by e-mail, set up the mail server on the application server. Choose node SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) under SAPConnect: Administration (transaction SCOT). For more information, see the SAP Reference IMG ® SAP Customizing Implementation ® SAP NetWeaver ® Business Intelligence ® Settings for Reporting and Analysis ® Settings for Information Broadcasting ® Set Up Mail Server and SAPconnect (BC-SRV-COM).

3. To broadcast by e-mail, you make general settings in Customizing. For example, you define the retention period in days that specifies how long send requests are saved after the e-mails are sent using broadcasting. You can also specify whether you want to insert a footer into sent e-mails.

For more information, see the SAP Reference IMG ® SAP Customizing Implementation Guide ® SAP NetWeaver ® Business Intelligence ® Settings for Reporting and Analysis ® Settings for Information Broadcasting ® Settings for Distributing E-Mails.

4. When documents are broadcast in MHTML format by e-mail, you can make a setting in Customizing to specify that documents in MHTML format are to be sent as attachments when they are broadcast by e-mail.

E-mails in MHTML format are not always the optimal medium for broadcasting content from BI in broadcasting. This is the case, for example, if:

○ The recipients’ e-mail clients do not fully support the display of MHTML

○ MHTML is not directly displayed as e-mail content for security reasons

Using the Customizing setting, when MHTML is broadcast by e-mail, the MHTML document is broadcast as an e-mail attachment. The MHTML is then displayed in the Web browser and not in the e-mail client.

5. If you want to send e-mails using encryption and a signature via an SMTP server, you must first:

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a. Set up a secure e-mail proxy. For more information about setting up and activating this proxy, see Secure E-Mail.

b. Set the SET and GET parameters BCSSIGN and BCSENCRYPT by choosing System ® User Profile ® Own Data ® Parameters. For more information, see Broadcast by E-Mail.

For more information about making mass changes of parameters for multiple users, see Mass Changes.

6. You can modify the display of precalculated queries by defining the standard Web template for query precalculation in Customizing.

You can also specify the standard Web template for broadcasting. This determines how the BEx Broadcaster is displayed when it is called from various areas of the Business Explorer. For more information, see Functions of the BEx Broadcaster.

You specify the corresponding standard Web templates in the BI system under SAP Reference IMG ® SAP Customizing Implementation Guides ® SAP NetWeaver ® Business Intelligence ® Settings for Reporting and Analysis ® BEx Web ® Set Standard Web Templates.

7. If you want to precalculate workbooks in addition to queries and Web templates, in Customizing, specify which precalculation servers are available for the BI system. You make this setting in the BI system under SAP Reference IMG ® SAP Customizing Implementation Guide ® SAP NetWeaver ® Business Intelligence ® Settings for Reporting and Analysis ® Settings for Information Broadcasting ® Administrate Precalculation Server.

For more information, see Administration of the Precalculation Server and Creating Precalculation Servers.

8. To create PDF files, you must first configure Adobe document services.

For more information, see Adobe Document Services Configuration Guide.

9. To generate and distribute alerts, you have to set up the Alert Framework and execute the following tasks:

a. You define alert categories in transaction ALRTCATDEF. See Alert Category and Defining Alert Categories.

b. You select the recipient of the SAP alert. See Recipient Determination.

c. You also maintain the alert container as required. The alert container ensures the exchange between the BI variables and the variables in the central alert server. See Alert Container.

10. With exception-specific broadcasting, you can specify a CSS style sheet in Customizing. This is used when output is generated in HTML format. The specification is a path in the MIME Repository, for example, /SAP/BW/BEx/StyleSheets/BWReports_ie5.css.

If you do not specify a style sheet, the system uses the standard style sheet /SAP/BW/BEx/StyleSheets/BWReports_ie6.css.

You make this setting in the BI system under SAP Reference IMG ® SAP Customizing Implementation Guide ® SAP NetWeaver ® Business Intelligence ® Settings for Reporting and Analysis ® Settings for Information Broadcasting ® Settings for Distributing E-Mails.

11. You assign administrator authorizations for broadcasting. To do this, use authorization object S_RS_ADMWB with the field RSADMWBOBJ = BR_SETTING. For more information, see Overview: Authorization Objects.

Result

You have set up the systems according to your needs and can now use information broadcasting. To allow end users in your organization to use the scenarios they require, set up the necessary authorizations in system administration and perform the administrative tasks. For more information, see Tasks for System Administration.