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Portal Service Available on SAP Cloud Platform Cloud Foundry Trial Account

Notes and disclaimers to this blog:

Portal Service was recently removed from from the trial environment and replaced with the SAP Cloud Platform Launchpad service, see more details in this blog: https://blogs.sap.com/2020/09/08/start-your-free-trial-for-sap-cloud-platform-launchpad

Note that this blog was created before the branding changes related to SAP technology platform were announced on January 2021.

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You can now subscribe to the Portal service in the trial account on SAP Cloud Platform Cloud Foundry environment – for the following data centers Europe (Frankfurt) and US East (VA). You have the full Portal capabilities available on the trial account.

Did you already create a trial account for SAP Cloud Platform? If not, you should do it right now.  A trial account lets you explore SAP Cloud Platform for free. Access is open to everyone. Trial accounts are intended for personal exploration, and not for production use or team development. They allow restricted use of the platform resources and services. Usage of the trial is possible for 30 days. You can extend the trial period to a maximum of 90 days. A trial account in the Cloud Foundry environment can contain multiple subaccounts which is different from the NEO environment where you can can manage only one trial subaccount.

To get more information about the different types of accounts on SAP Cloud Platform trial and enterprise account, check out this link to the official documentation.

I. Prerequisite: Create your Trial account for SAP Cloud Platform

As a prerequisite to get access to the Portal service, you must create a SAP Cloud Platform trial account in the Cloud Foundry environment.

  1. Go to the new SAP Cloud Platform product site and choose Start free trial.
  2. Follow the steps on the official Cloud Platform documentation, see section “Get a trial account”.

II. Subscribe to Portal Service

  1. Click on your trial subaccount or the subaccount you created in the SAP Cloud Platform cockpit.
  2. Click Subscriptions from the side menu:
  3. Click on the Portal Service. You see that you are not yet subscribed:
  4. Click Subscribe. The status is changing to Subscribed.
  5. You are now subscribed to the Portal service:

Note: If you click on Go to Application, you will realize that you still have no access to the Portal service application. You first have to assign yourself the Super_Admin role.

III. Assign Yourself to Super_Admin Role

To be able to access and work in the Portal service application, you need to do some configuration steps.

  1. Click on your subaccount.
  2. From the side menu, select Security -> Role Collections. Then create a new role collection (you can name it for example “Administrator”) and save:
  3. Click on your role collection to navigate to the Roles screen and then click Add Role.
  4. Select the following values:
    Application Identifer: portal-cf-service!<Your id>
    Role Template: Super_Admin
    Role: Super_Admin
  5. Use the breadcrumbs at the top of your screen to go back to your subaccount.
  6. From your side menu, select Security -> Trust Configuration.
  7. Click the SAP ID Service. If you are not using the SAP IDP (SAP ID Service), click Role Collection Assignment from the side menu.
  8. Enter your email address and then click Show Assignments:
  9. Click Assign Role Collection. In the dialog box that opens, select the Administrator role collection that you defined above and then click Assign Role Collection.

Now you are assigned to the Super_Admin role and you can access the Portal service as follows:

  1. Click again on your trial subaccount or the subaccount you created in the SAP Cloud Platform cockpit.
  2. Click Subscriptions from the side menu.
  3. Search for the Portal Service and click on Go to application.
  4. Enter your email and password and log on, you have now access to the site directory in the administration environment and you can start creating Portal sites:

 

Watch also this video which shows you the steps you need to take to subscribe to the Portal service and how to assign yourself to the Super Admin role:

For further information, you can also check out the SAP Cloud Platform Portal Administrator Guide. 

 

 

 

 

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      Author's profile photo Ashok E
      Ashok E

      Hello,

      when I am trying to add Super_Admin Role to my collection, Role is getting grayed out as soon as when I select the role template as “Super_Admin”. Am I missing something here.?

      Regards,

      Ashok

       

      Author's profile photo Vera Gutbrod
      Vera Gutbrod
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Ashok!

      This should not happen normally :-). A colleague told me he had the same issue. What helped was to hit F5 and try again. It worked then. Please try.

      Best regards

      Vera

      Author's profile photo Ahmed Ali Khan
      Ahmed Ali Khan

      I did everything same, but when i clicking on Go to application, afer login i am getting

      "

      Sorry, we couldn't find the site.
      Please contact your site administrator for assistance.

      "

      Author's profile photo Manivannan Ganapathi
      Manivannan Ganapathi

      Hi, Whether this issue was fixed?

      Author's profile photo Aviad Rivlin
      Aviad Rivlin

      Please note that the portal service was removed from new trial accounts. Please use the Launchpad service.

      Aviad

      Author's profile photo Guru Balan
      Guru Balan

      I got the following error while click the launchpad service

      Author's profile photo Partha Saradhi K J
      Partha Saradhi K J

      I am not able to see the Portal service in Subscription list in my trail account in cloud foundry.

      Author's profile photo Aviad Rivlin
      Aviad Rivlin

      You are correct. Portal was recently removed from from the trial environment and replaced with the SAP Cloud Platform Launchpad service, see more details in this blog: https://blogs.sap.com/2020/09/08/start-your-free-trial-for-sap-cloud-platform-launchpad

      We will update the blog accordingly.

      Aviad

      Author's profile photo leonardo AVILA
      leonardo AVILA

      is the a possibility that in the future appear again the PORTAL on trial account?, I have bought the Portal' books in SAP PRESS yesterday to practice!

       

      Author's profile photo Aviad Rivlin
      Aviad Rivlin

      Not really... though if you have a 'licensed' account you can use it there.