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Procedure

In the portal, be sure that you have created each system required for application modeling, and assigned it a system alias accordingly.

For information about creating systems and aliases, see the Portal Administration Guide on SAP Help Portal at help.sap.com/nw70   SAP Library   SAP NetWeaver Library   SAP NetWeaver by Key Capability   People Integration by Key Capability   Portal   Portal Administration Guide   System Administration   System Configuration   System Landscape   Creating Systems.  

Map users with VC Role to a user with read permissions to the required back-end system.

Business Intelligence Systems

The Visual Composer installation includes the Business Intelligence (BI) extension kit for accessing and building queries against a wide range of data sources created with the BI Java Connectors and SAP BI Connector. These include SAP BI systems as well as non-SAP data sources. The BI functionality available in Visual Composer differs depending on which type of connector you use to define your system:

  • Systems created with a BI Java Connector can access the BI Integration Wizard and the SQL or MDX Editors, or can be used as data services with a default relational or OLAP query.

  • Systems created with the SAP BI Connector provide access to SAP BI queries, query views, and characteristics in Visual Composer. For more information on configuring a connection to an SAP BI system, see the following path in the SAP Customizing Implementation Guide:   SAP NetWeaver   Business Intelligence   Reporting-relevant Settings   BEx Web   Integration into the Portal   Create BI System in the Portal  .

See Appendix: Visual Composer Connectivity for details on the full range of systems you can create for use in Visual Composer.