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One of the joys of being a product manager with SAP are the days when you actually get to spend time manipulating and massaging the latest and greatest builds of the latest and greatest SAP NetWeaver component:
SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0 SP Stack 04, which just happens to run on WebAS 6.40.

Well, today was such a day.

We are teaching an RKT class this week in Newtown Square, PA, at SAP America's headquarters building. RKT stands for Ramp-up Knowledge Transfer.
Our class contains mostly SAP consultants who are getting ready to deploy to Ramp-up customers, but also a few partners and even one customer. Mostly men, but we have two women in the class, and guess what - no surprise here - a team with a woman in it was first again in finishing the installation. Do I see a pattern forming here or what?

Today, I wanted to share with you one of the rather exciting little new features I stumbled across: Being able to tie XML links (RSS in my case) into the portal easily and viewing them as iViews.

In order to do so, you simply create a new iView by calling the XML iView wizard.

You then, after entering the standard name, ID and prefix, get to a screen, which either allows you to browse for a URL or to simply enter it.

In my case, I went out to SDN and grabbed the RSS URL listed on the Weblogs page (bottom right underneath the Comments section).

Once I had the URL, I pasted it into the URL window in my iView wizard.

In the next step, I was asked what I would like to do now, and I selected the RSS to XHTMLB option.

Upon saving this quick iView, I was able to bring this into a page with another iViewCatcher iView, which I had already generated.

Yes, you read that one right: iViewCatcher is back!

More about that next time - have to get ready for my teaching gig in the morning.

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