How to unpublish a BEx report from Enterprise Portal

Description:

The document describes how we can unpublish a BEx report from Enterprise Portal

Pre-requisite:

You have created BEx Query and published it to Portal

Scenarios:

1. You want to remove a report which is published on portal. You have already removed a report from backend role. But still portal link is not removed
2. You want to keep a report in backend role.  Implies report will be accessible from RSRT. But you want to remove portal link. Hence users who have only portal access can not view the report
3. You want to change sequence of reports which are published to Portal

Steps to remove portal link of the report:

1. As per scenarios 1 or 2, make the changes in the role in Authorization Data. Example: Remove/Keep query in the role
2. Run the transaction PFCG
3. Enter the required role and click on the Change button
4. Select the Menu tab
5. Right click on Report Name and choose Display Details
6. Pop up window shows link which is used for Portal. When we publish a report to portal this link gets created
7. Right click on Report Name and choose Delete Node. Entry will get removed from list
8. Save the role
9. Upload the portal role again which corresponds to the backend role in which you have done changes

Steps to change a sequence of reports (Scenario 3):

1. Run the transaction PFCG
2. Enter the required role and click on the Change button
3. Select the Menu tab
4. Right click on Report Name
5. Select Move Up or Move Down to change the sequence of the report
6. Save the role
7. Upload the portal role again which corresponds to the backend role in which you have done changes