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Web target iViews extend the reach of your portal by making it possible to relate data in your databases to data on the World Wide Web.

A Web target iView represents an input form contained in a Web site's HTML page. It can accept data from iViews based on portal business objects. Dragging a link from a business object iView onto a Web target iView, formulates and launches a URL that retrieves specific, related data from the designated Web site.

Integration

During creation of a Web target iView, you establish a connection to a business object representing a table and its database relations in a back-end application database. You then map an input parameter from the form of a Web page to a property in the business object. The business object property defines the parameters of the search that is launched during a Drag&Relate operation.

At runtime, if the link that you drag is not the actual property that was mapped to the URL parameter of the Web page form, you will not receive the results that you expect, because the mechanism sends the actual mapped property for processing.

For example, a Books business object contains a Title_Name property and a Title_ID property. When creating the Web target iView, you mapped the Title_ID property to the relevant URL parameter, but during runtime, you drag the Title_Name link of a specific record. The Title_ID is the value that is sent for processing, and the returned data will be based on that value.

Note Note

When mapping properties, be sure to map the value that you want used when the Web target iView performs its search.

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Example

Your navigation panel includes a business object iView called Shipments that displays a list of records from the shipments database table. Each shipment record includes the following fields: a date, a customer name, an order number, a shipping company name, and a tracking number.

You create a Web target iView called ACE Shipping that launches a URL to the Web site of the ACE Shipping Company. Dragging a record from the Shipments iView onto the Web target iView invokes a search in the Web site for tracking information about the selected shipment.