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Configuring and Implementing External Facing Portal in EP 7.0

Applies to: SAP Web Application Server (WAS) version 7.0, Enterprise Portal 7.0

Summary External-facing portal provides the SAP NetWeaver Portal Web-like behavior and reduce the amount of resources required to view portal pages.

An External-facing portal provides content to anonymous users, internal employees and business partners and enabling users to self-register in order to access additional content and to personalize the portal.

Author: Jyoti Prava Badajena

Company: HCL Technologies Ltd, Kolkata

Created on: 11 April 2008.

Author Bio Jyoti Prava Badajena is working in HCL Technologies Ltd, Kolkata as a NetWeaver Consultant.



Table of Contents Abbreviation Used ..............................................................................................................................................3 Pre-Requisites ....................................................................................................................................................3

Knowledge Requirements: ..............................................................................................................................3 System Requirements:....................................................................................................................................3

Implementation: ..................................................................................................................................................4 Related Content................................................................................................................................................14 Disclaimer and Liability Notice..........................................................................................................................15



Abbreviation Used

WAS Web Application Server

Pre-Requisites 1. SAP NetWeaver 2004s SPS 6 or higher

2. You have developed a demo application using portal Component.

Knowledge Requirements:

1. Knowledge of developing portal Application in Netweaver studio.

2. Knowledge of System Administration, Content Administrarion and User Administration in Enterprise Portal.

System Requirements:

1. WAS 7.0

2. EP 7.0



Implementation: 1. Log on to the Visual Administrator using the default connecton as a J2EE admin.

2. Navigate to Global Configuration > Server Tab and Select com.sap.portal.prt.sapj2ee service from the Service list.



3. Check the portal.navigation.cache..enable property to true and maximize the cache lifetime as required.

4. Log on to the Portal.



5. Navigate to System Adminstration > Navigation. In the Detailed Navigation , click the Navigation Cache and clear the cache.

6. Click the Short URLs and change the configuration properties to true.



7. Insert the portal/anonymous alias to the web.xml file.



8. Create the light portal content (an application) in Netweaver Development Studio and upload your light content application PAR file.

9. Create an iview from the light content par file of your developed application.



10. Put the iview inside a page

11. Create one demo role and add the page to the role by delta link.



12. .Navigate to User Administraton and Assign the demo role to the Guest user.

13. Create your own masthead.jsp and top level navigation jsp using Navigation tag Library in Netweaver Development studio.



14. Navigate to Content Administration > Portal Users > Standard Portal Users and Copy the Light Framework to your working folder.

15. Create iviews from masthead.par and TopLevelNavigation.par and replace the them in place of com.sap.portal.lightMasthead and com.sap.portal.lightTopLevelNavigationiView in the lightframework page



16. Define the light desktop for the portal/anonymous and portal/light URL Alias by adding if expressions to the Master Rules Collections page

17. Activate Quick link for the page you require.



18. logon to the portal as anonymous

19. Type the Quick link name after http://<localhost:port>/irj/portal/anonymous/.



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