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Integrate BW Web Applications into EP 5.0

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HOW TO… INTEGRATE BW WEB APPLICATIONS INTO EP 5.0

1 Business Scenario How to effectively disseminate web applications? Having developed numerous web applications with the new Web Application Designer delivered with BW 3.x, you are faced with the challenge to make the reports easily accessible to users.

2 Introduction Via the web application designer, BW provides a utility to not only design reports but also to ease the integration of web applications into SAP Enterprise Portal 5.0 (EP 5.0). This document will detail the step-by-step process of creating a simple web application and integrating it into EP 5.0.

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3 The Step By Step Solution Step 1: Creating the BW web application.

Step 2: Integrating the web application into EP 5.0

1. Designing the template

Start the BW Web Application Designer from the start menu "Start/Programs/Business Explorer/Web Application Designer".

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2. Drag the ‘Generic Navigation Block’ and ‘Table’ web items onto the canvas on the right.

3. Click on the generic navigation element to select it. On the left hand side, click the button next to field labeled ‘Query/View’. In the dialog box that pops up select an existing query or view. In this case enter ‘DECUQUERY1’ in the text box and click ‘OK’.



4. After you selected the query, save your web application either in your favorites or under a role with 'Web Template -> Save As...' from the menu.

5. You can test your web application by selecting ‘Web Template -> Execute in browser…’ from the menu. If you selected the Demo Cube Query you should get something that looks like this. The complete template is contained in Appendix A.

6. Save the template as an iView file by selecting ‘Publish->As iView File…’ from the menu. (See Appendix B for the file contents)



2. Enterprise Portal Setup

1. After logging in to EP 5.0 with administrator privileges, select ‘Content Admin->iViews’ from the top level navigation. Click on the ‘Import’ button and navigate to the location of the iView file saved earlier.

2. Click on ‘Import’. You should get this screen. By default, the iView will be added to the channel ‘BI Web Applications’.



3. By default, the BW ‘system’ field (found on the ‘Java’ tab) will be populated by the logical system name. To change this entry in the iView, click on the ‘Edit’ link to the far right of the iView entry in the iView overview page (see step 1 on how to navigate to this screen) and select the ‘Java’ tab. IMPORTANT: The entry in the ‘System’ field must match the entry in the ‘Systems.xml’ file defined by your portal administrator. You can maintain the logial system name via IMG: SAP Web Application Server -> System Administration -> Change & Transport System -> Confugure Clients.



4. Create a page to contain the newly added iView by selecting ‘Content Admin -> Pages’ from the navigation bar.

5. Click on ‘New’ and enter a name and page ID, Click ‘Apply’.



6. Once the confirmation dialog disappears, click on the ‘Content’ tab, check the iView created in the previous step as well as the ‘Visible’ property and click ‘Apply’.

7. Click on the ‘Layout’ tab and select the whole page layout and click ‘Apply’.



8. While still in the ‘Content Admin’ section, click on the ‘Roles’ navigation tab.

9. Click the ‘Create’ button on the right. This will start a wizard, enter a Role name and id and click on ‘Next’, select ‘EN’ as the language and click ‘Next’ and then click on ‘Finish’. Highlight the ‘New Folder’ text in the text box at the bottom of the page and type in a name – this will be the name that appears in the top level navigation. In our case ‘SD Demo’. Then click on the ‘New Folder’ button. Your screen should look something like this.



10. Once the folder has been created, select ‘Pages’ from the dropdown box on the left and search for the page you created earlier. Drag your page over to the left and position the cursor over the Folder ‘SD Demo’ and let go of the mouse button, or highlight the folder name and then under ‘Pages’ on the left select your page and click on the ‘Add’ button in the middle. Your page should be underneath the folder.

11. Select ‘Portal Admin -> Role

Assignment’ from the top navigation bar. Search for your user ID. Click on the ‘Edit’ button to the far right of your userid. In the next screen, select your new role, click on the ‘Add’ button and then click on ‘Save’. Once saved, refresh your browser. You should now have a new navigation tab called ‘SD Demo’.



12. Results when clicking on the ‘SD Demo’ tab. See Appendix C for alternate ways of integrating BW content into the portal.


Appendix A Web application template <HTML>  <object> <param name="OWNER" value="SAP_BW"/> <param name="CMD" value="SET_DATA_PROVIDER"/> <param name="NAME" value="DATAPROVIDER_1"/> <param name="QUERY" value="DECUQUERY1"/> <param name="INFOCUBE" value="0D_DECU"/> DATA_PROVIDER: DATAPROVIDER_1 </object> <object> <param name="OWNER" value="SAP_BW"/> <param name="CMD" value="SET_PROPERTIES"/> <param name="TEMPLATE_ID" value="DEMO_CUBE_TEMPLATE"/> TEMPLATE PROPERTIES </object> <HEAD> <META NAME="GENERATOR" Content="Microsoft DHTML Editing Control"> <TITLE>BW Web Application</TITLE> <link href= "/sap/bw/Mime/BEx/StyleSheets/BWReports.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"/> </HEAD> <BODY> <P><object> <param name="OWNER" value="SAP_BW"/> <param name="CMD" value="GET_ITEM"/> <param name="NAME" value="NAVIGATIONBLOCK_1"/> <param name="ITEM_CLASS" value="CL_RSR_WWW_ITEM_NAV_BLOCK"/> <param name="DATA_PROVIDER" value="DATAPROVIDER_1"/> ITEM: NAVIGATIONBLOCK_1 </object></P> <P><object> <param name="OWNER" value="SAP_BW"/> <param name="CMD" value="GET_ITEM"/> <param name="NAME" value="TABLE_1"/> <param name="ITEM_CLASS" value="CL_RSR_WWW_ITEM_GRID"/> <param name="DATA_PROVIDER" value="DATAPROVIDER_1"/> ITEM: TABLE_1 </object></P> </BODY> </HTML>


Appendix B iView File <iView name="DEMO_CUBE_TEMPLATE" type="Java"> <channel><![CDATA[BI Web Applications]]></channel> <title><![CDATA[Demo Cube]]></title> <params> <PhysicalService> <System type="SimplePropertyType"> <Value><![CDATA[BWRCLNT800]]></Value> <PropertyAttribute name="personalization" final="false"> <Value><![CDATA[no-dialog]]></Value> </PropertyAttribute> <PropertyAttribute name="inheritance" final="false"> <Value><![CDATA[non-final]]></Value> </PropertyAttribute> </System> <LAF_ThemePart type="SimplePropertyType"> <Value><![CDATA[BIReports30]]></Value> <PropertyAttribute name="type" final="false"> <Value><![CDATA[select[sapbwreports,BIReports30]]]></Value> </PropertyAttribute> <PropertyAttribute name="personalization" final="false"> <Value><![CDATA[none]]></Value> </PropertyAttribute> <PropertyAttribute name="inheritance" final="false"> <Value><![CDATA[non-final]]></Value> </PropertyAttribute> <PropertyAttribute name="plainDescription" final="false"> <Value><![CDATA[Look and Feel Theme Part for BW Reports ("sapbwreports" for BW 2.0, "BIRports30" for BW 3.0)]]></Value> </PropertyAttribute> <PropertyAttribute name="isDefinedByMaster" final="false"> <Value><![CDATA[false]]></Value> </PropertyAttribute> </LAF_ThemePart> <SAP_BWReport type="SimplePropertyType"> <Value><![CDATA[cmd=ldoc&TEMPLATE_ID=DEMO_CUBE_TEMPLATE]]></Value> <PropertyAttribute name="type" final="false"> <Value><![CDATA[string]]></Value> </PropertyAttribute> <PropertyAttribute name="personalization" final="false"> <Value><![CDATA[no-dialog]]></Value> </PropertyAttribute> <PropertyAttribute name="inheritance" final="false"> <Value><![CDATA[non-final]]></Value> </PropertyAttribute> <PropertyAttribute name="plainDescription" final="false"> <Value><![CDATA[BW Report Id (Key Property)]]></Value> </PropertyAttribute> <PropertyAttribute name="isDefinedByMaster" final="false"> <Value><![CDATA[false]]></Value> </PropertyAttribute> </SAP_BWReport> <Description type="SimplePropertyType"> <Value><![CDATA[Demo Cube]]></Value> <PropertyAttribute name="personalization"



final="false"> <Value><![CDATA[no-dialog]]></Value> </PropertyAttribute> <PropertyAttribute name="inheritance" final="false"> <Value><![CDATA[non-final]]></Value> </PropertyAttribute> </Description> <MasterLink type="SimplePropertyType"> <Value><![CDATA[global/services/installed/SAPApplication.BWReport]]></Value> <PropertyAttribute name="personalization" final="false"> <Value><![CDATA[no-dialog]]></Value> </PropertyAttribute> <PropertyAttribute name="inheritance" final="false"> <Value><![CDATA[non-final]]></Value> </PropertyAttribute> </MasterLink> </PhysicalService> </params> </iView>



Appendix C Alternate ways of integrating BW web applications into the portal.

1. Via the Java iView wizard in the portal. You will need to know the technical name of the web application template as well as the name of the BW system specified in the systems.xml file

2. Via importing of roles from the BW system.

Please consult the online help documentation at http://help.sap.com as well as OSS note 444247 for more information.


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