SAP NetWeaver Portal 7.3 – Unified Access to Applications and Processes – some more new capabilities…

Hello all,

Today I would like to share with you some more very useful features that come out-of-the-box with the new SAP NetWeaver Portal release (7.3).

1) My Objects

The concept of “My Objects” provides a flexible way to maintain a list of your top used PCD objects: folders, roles, pages, iViews, with quick access to these objects. One can say that it is just like the favorites of the PCD objects. Yes, exactly! Bellow you can see how we add objects to the “My Objects” list (on the left) and on the right, the “My Objects” runtime view.

2) Portal Content Studio Overview Page

In order to ease the work of content administrator and provide one place for links and information resources, we have introduced the Portal Content Studio overview page, which is a customizable page for (internal & external) information resources used by content administrators. Typical links that should be available there are: online documentation, SDN forums, internal guidelines, etc. Bellow you can see a screenshot of the page in edit mode.

3) Copy PCD ID

How many times where you looking for an easy way to retrieve the PCD ID of a specific iView!? I assume many many times. This is a nice new enhancement to the actions available for any PCD object in the Portal Content tree, that copies to the clipboard the PCD ID of the object, in one click!

4) Role preview

The role preview capability provides you a snapshot into the role structure without even opening the role for editing. In addition, this new capability enables you to reuse subsets of the role into another role (useful, isn’t it?!)

5) Framework page configuration

A single place to configure all the framework pages’ setting (masthead, menus, tool bar, etc.). Much simpler than previously, where we had to look for each and every property in the property editor.

6) New Support Page

I assume that you are all familiar with the support page of the Portal (where we used to upload portal applications, clean personalization, access the PCD Inspector, and much more). With the new portal release, we made a “face lift” to the support page to make it much more intuitive and user friendly. In addition, we have added some highly important tools, such as the PAR to WAR migration tool.

7) User Authorization Reports

User authorization reports are new reports that provide information about each user\group\role and to which back-end systems they are connected. You will find this tool very useful to identify if a user requires access to a specific back-end system.

These were only few enhancements (out of many) of the new SAP NetWeaver Portal release, in the coming blogs we will share more and more new enhancements.

Wishing you all a happy and prosperous new year!

Regards,

Aviad Rivlin