Creating BEx Web Application iViews 

You can integrate BEx Web applications as an iView by selecting one of the BEx Web Application iView templates in the iView Wizard. The templates are automatically installed with SAP NetWeaver Portal.

Prerequisites

·        You selected one of the BEx Web Application iView templates in step 1 of the iView Wizard and followed the instructions given by the wizard. For more information, see Launching the iView Wizard and General Information.

The available templates for BEx Web Application iViews are:

¡        SAP BW 3.x Format

¡        SAP NetWeaver 7.0 Format

·        A system is configured with the Web Application Server (Web AS)

The system must also have a valid alias, which is entered in the System property of the iView.

More information: System Landscape.

●      If you are integrating reports from a remote SAP NetWeaver 7.0 system running BI, you can work as follows:

¡        Set up a federated portal network between the portals, assigning the System property to a producer alias

¡        Use a local system object that references the remote BI system

More information:

¡        SAP Note 1140854

¡        Integration into an SAP NetWeaver 7.0 Portal

Process Flow

You must maintain the following properties in order to display a BEx Web application in the portal as an iView:

Mandatory fields:

●      System

●      BEx Web Application Query String

Optional fields:

●      Logon Language

●      Application Parameters

●      Customer Exits for 'ParameterProvider'

●      Do not forward these parameters to the BEx Web Application

●      Parameters Forwarded to BEx Web Application

●      Time Interval to Refresh iView.

For more information about the properties

You can find general information about maintaining iView properties in Property Editor and Editing iView Properties.

System

Enter the system alias for the desired SAP BW System.

The system alias refers to a BW system that was defined in the portal. More information: System Aliases.

If you need to create a system from scratch please read note # 761917.

BEx Web Application Query String

For detailed information about the values to enter in the BEx Web Application Query String field, see BEx Web Application or Query as iView in the Portal.

You can add further URL parameters of the SAP BW, for example to define filter values. For more information, see Command.

Application Parameters

You can enter parameter values for certain screen fields for displaying BEx applications here.

This field is optional.

The parameter values are specified with the following syntax:

<Screen_field1>=<Parameter1>

&<Screen_field1>=<Parameter2>

&<...>=<...>,...

Customer Exits for 'ParameterProvider'

A customer exit is a way to extend the functionality of the ApplicationIntegration service by creating a custom code.

In this field you can enter the name of the field for the customer exit:

entry path="/com.sap.portal.appintegrator/customer_exits/parameter_provider/<field_name>

Parameters Forwarded to BEx Web Application

In this field you can enter the parameter names that you want to forward to the BEx.

The parameters are transferred to the ApplicationIntegration service in the request as part of the query string.

If you want to forward all the parameters, you can enter the value asterisk (*).

Do not forward these parameters to the BEx Web Application

This field is only relevant if the value of the property “Parameters Forwarded to BEx is asterisk (*).

In this field you can enter the parameters that you want to exclude from the BSP.

Time Interval to Refresh iView

This property specifies the time period after which the content of an iView is automatically reloaded at runtime.

The version property (not listed here) should not be changed. The are one of the following, depending on the iView type you selected:

§         version=BW 2.x/3.x is for BW - for iViews of type SAP BW 3.x Format

§         version = SAP NetWeaver BI - for iViews of type SAP NetWeaver 7.0 Format

More Information

BEx Web Application or Query as iView in the Portal (in the documentation for the SAP Business Information Warehouse).