Introduction

In parts one and two of this blog series we touched base on Fiori and it's relationship with the Enterprise Portal. We covered some of the fundamentals around Fiori's development and utilization and how this translates into effective user experiences within the Portal through the SAP Fiori Launchpad on Portal.

Missed Part 1 & 2?

If you missed Part's One and Two you can revisit them here:

• http://scn.sap.com/community/enterprise-portal/blog/2016/05/16/ep-portal-fiori-overview--joining-forces-part-1
• http://scn.sap.com/community/enterprise-portal/blog/2016/05/17/ep-the-portal-fiori-launchpad-integration--part-2

Framework Pages

If you are familiar with the Enterprise Portal (EP) and Netweaver (NW) environments you would have by now become familiar with the various framework pages terminology that exists e.g. Standard, Default, Custom, Classic, Ajax and now Fiori.

So what is a Framework Page?

• As we know the Portal in itself is comprised of various display elements and objects which are interacted with by end-users. Such objects are presented to users in the form of roles, navigation end points, displays and backdrop rendering. End Users (through assigned roles) interact with the Portal itself through the Portal Desktop and the Pages& iViews holstering a synergy with end users is provided by the Framework page.

What does a Framework Page contain?

●  Header area

●  navigation areas (TLN, Navigation Panel, DTN, Masthead)

●  Portal content area (center of the Portal through which applications are rendered)

Fiori Framework Page

When using the SAP Fiori Launchpad on Portal the substructure through which the launchpad is presented to end-users is that of the Fiori Framework Page. Upon configuring the Fiori Framework Page to your own business requirements and preferences the default theme utilized in its presentation to end users if that of SAP Blue Crystal but this can be customized also if required through the UI Theme Designer.

• In relation to FIORI-applicationsBlue Crystal is the recommended theme to be utilized and as we mentioned it is the default theme setting for Fiori
• For UI5 applicationsGold Reflection is really recommended.

Fiori  Framework - Page Configuration

• https://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw73ehp1/helpdata/en/fa/7fb06cc6f747719d798eeff3e30e4e/content.htm
  

Location - Fiori Framework Page

1. Login to the Enterprise Portal
2. http://<host>:<port>/portal
3. Navigate to Portal Content > Portal Users> Standard Portal Users.
4. Then select Fiori Framework Content> Fiori Framework Page.

• pcd:portal_content/every_user/general/defaultFFPFrameworkContent/FioriFrameworkPage

Browser Modes & Fiori Framework Page

As we know with different versions of Web Browser Platforms come several sets of parameters and configurations which need to be maintained in order to support optimal performance. In terms of performance here I am making reference to the means in which users interact with the Portal interface and the method of which these contents are displayed i.e. rendered.

• The Fiori Framework Page will NOT work in Quirks Mode (Internet Explorer (IE))
• If you attempt to force the browser (IE) to run in Quirks Mode it will not work and function properly as the framework itself is based on UI5 components which work only in standards mode.

The Fiori Framework Page is intended for standards mode only and since there is no way to mix different rendering("document") modes in same page - all iViews that are rendered "in place" will render in standards mode environment and should comply to it (for example by "sap-ie=Edge" parameter).

• If your business requirements mean certain pages cannot be rendered in standards, then they should be opened in a new window with NAV Mode 3.

Know Issues, Further Troubleshooting & Resolutions

• SAP Note: 2008931 - Known issues for Fiori Framework Page (FLP on Portal)

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Check out the SAP Enterprise Architecture Explorer and learn about system landscape deployment recommendations for SAP Enterprise Portal. 30 May 2016

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Read the new edition of the SAP Portal news blog which provides the latest news on classical Portal on-premise topics as well as on Cloud experience products as SAP HANA Cloud Portal. 22 March 2016

SAP Enterprise Portal on SAP NetWeaver 7.5 SPS2

Learn about the new features of the latest support package stack of SAP Enterprise Portal on SAP NetWeaver 7.5. 7 March 2016

SAP Enterprise Portal Available on SAP NetWeaver 7.5

SAP NetWeaver 7.5 is the compatible follow up release of SAP NetWeaver 7.4 and the on-premise foundation for SAP Business Suite (as of Enhancement Package 8 for SAP ERP) and for the on-premise edition of SAP S/4 HANA. Read this blog to know about the SAP Portal highlights in this new NetWeaver release. Read this blog to get the details on the features which are part of Support Package 01. 4 November 2015

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Hi all,

I would like to add a WD or BSP-Application in the Launchpad. This application is supposed to be started without single-sign-on, meaning the logon-screen is supposed to be displayed.

Background: The user wants to be able to login to the backend-system with a different user as the portal-user.

Thanks a lot for any hints and tipps.

Best regards

Chris

Hi All,

We have webdynpro DC in NWDS 7.3 version, we  re-imported the model which already exists  DC in DEV environment. Because of ABAP people was added new field in the BAPI structure. Then restart required j2ee server for getting the changes in portal side.

Can anyone please suggest me, do i need to restart  for all environments, after deploying the changes ( like quality and production portal's ).

Regards,

Venu

Hello,

Is there any way to change in colour of Enterprise Portal Calendar.

like Sunday dates in different colour. Public Holidays suppose 20-May-2016 in different colour.

Dear Experts,

we just upgraded our BI Java from SP8 tp SP12 using SUM successfully, and currently we are on trying to set up SAP Fiori.

We suddenly have an issue after logoff and logon to java screen main menu and got nothing in the main menu screen except LOGOFF menu.

Everytime we logon to the java instance using http://<servername>:50400/irj/portal then we got the empty screen as you can see the attahced file.

We do not have any issue with the NWA screen using http:<servername>:50400/nwa

after logging on the screen got empty as you can see below:

we do not have issue with NWA screen:

I have no idea what had happened with the screen since we did not 'do anything' regarding the screen.

Please advise.

Regards,

Rudi

Hi,

I'm having this issue of plotting comma separated currency value in ui5 bar chart (vizframe)..I'm getting the value from oData as big decimal (for example - 123456.000) which I need to convert to format (1,23,456.000) and put the same into graph.

I'm able to convert big decimal into comma separated string with same required format but while trying to put this same formatted string in vizframe graph, it's not coming in graph.

Help would be appreciated. Here is the code what I've written inside. I've used formatter function to convert big decimal to string and then setting the same to measure.

var oDataset = new FlattenedDataset({

                dimensions: [

                {

                    name: 'XXXX',

                    value: "{graphData>matname}"

                },

               ],

                measures: [{

                    name: GraphTitle,

                  //  value: '{graphData>TotalValue}'

                    value: {

                        path: "graphData>TotalValue",  

                        formatter: function(fValue) {  

                        if(fValue){

                        //alert(fValue);

                        var x=fValue.toString();

                        var afterPoint = '';

                        if(x.indexOf('.') > 0)

                          afterPoint = x.substr(x.indexOf('.'),x.length);

                        x = Math.floor(x);

                        x=x.toString();

                        var lastThree = x.substr(x.length-3);

                        var otherNumbers = x.substr(0,x.length-3);

                        if(otherNumbers != '')

                           lastThree = ',' + lastThree;

                        var res = otherNumbers.replace(/\B(?=(\d{2})+(?!\d))/g, ",") + lastThree + afterPoint;

                        var mm = parseFloat(res);  

                        return res;

                             } else {

                                return fValue;

                             }

                        }

                    }

                },

                ],

                data: {

                    path: "graphData>/results"

                }

            });

            oVizFrame.setDataset(oDatase

Cheers,

Sen

Hey Guys

We are in the process of upgrading from EP 7.4 to 7.5 but we are running into a few issues with BW content in the Portal. Theme Editor is deprecated in 7.5 so we are moving to UI Theme Designer.

Applying an SAP standard theme resolves the issues, but making a clean copy of an SAP standard theme (sap_tradeshow) displays the errors again. Almost feels as if some of the theme files are not copied when you create a copy of the theme.

PS - The BW content works fine, the issues are with the EP theming.

Launching a Business Objects dashboard (that sonnects directly to BEx queries and also stored in BW) in the portal gives the following errors:

Launching a BEx query in the portal gives the following errors:

We have logged an incident with SAP, and this is some of the details:

Is there a workaround for this? Is there some way we can copy the missing files from the SAP standard theme to our theme? Where are these files stored?

Thanks guys

Antonette

Hi,

Good day! We have encountered an error upon dashboard execution. Please see error below:

Request processing failed. (XLS 000009)

Request processing failed. (XLS 000009) Termination message sent ABEND RS_EXCEPTION (000): An exception with the type CX_SY_CONVERSION_NO_NUMBER occurred, but was neither handled locally, nor declared in a RAISING  MSGV1: An exception with the type  MSGV2: CX_SY_CONVERSION_NO_NUMBER occurred, but was  MSGV3: neither handled locally, nor declared in a RAISING)

All queries have been executed without any error/s. All variables are manually inputted and have no Customer Exits.

We are currently running on SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.1 Support Pack 5

Version: 14.1.5.1501

Kindly advise for possible solutions.

Thank you very much.

Hi all,

Looking for some advice around "mass updates" of UME security policy for users.  First though, some background:

I'm currently running an SAP NW 7.0 SP21 portal, using an LDAP directory + UME as datasources.   All of my "normal employee users" (about 130,000) come from the LDAP, while any "test users" that we may have created in various non-production systems are sourced locally from each system UME.  (For example, in some systems, we have created upwards of 3000 unique test users for load testing).   Essentially, I would like users from each data source to have a separate "default" security policy.  

For my LDAP users, I want a more relaxed password policy, allowing the LDAP directory to fully administer the policy for user lockouts & password resets (eg. in UME, set max failed passwords to 0 and auto-unlock time to 0).  Said another way, I want it to be impossible for one of my employee users to lock themselves in my UME --- I want LDAP to manage that.  On the other hand,for my test users, I'd like a separate policy with a little more rigor.

So, creating the two separate policies is no big deal.   This can be done in the Portal under System Administration > System Configuration > UME Configuration > Security Policy, where we can modify the existing Default and Technical User security policies.   Additionally, we can add custom policies, which are then visible in the portal UME application when maintaining a single user.

So, now for a few questions:

1)  Is it possible to configure different default security policies depending on the Data Source?   eg.  apply one set of rules for my LDAP users and another for my local UME users?   Can this be done by customizing the dataSourceConfiguration.xml?

2)  Can security policies be linked to other UME principal objects (like groups)?

3)  In the UME, it seems only possible to change the security policy one user at a time.   Has SAP delivered any "mass policy maintenance" utility for UME, where this could be changed for a large number of users simultaneously?

4)   Let's say that I use the "default" policy for my LDAP users and create a new custom policy for my UME test users.  Normally, when I create test users, I use the UME import functionality.  However, it does not appear to be possible to set the security policy as part of the import/create process.  This means that, if I created 1000 users and needed to change their policy, I would have to do it one at a time (right after I finished slamming my fingers in the door repeatedly).   In reading this [thread|Creating Technical Users - Import functionality; , it mentions that it should be possible to programmatically update a user's policy via the UME API.   However, when searching through [com.sap.security.api|http://help.sap.com/javadocs/NW04S/SPS09/se/com/sap/security/api/package-summary.html], I cannot find any interfaces which expose that attribute of a user.

Has anyone had any luck updating a user's security policy programmatically?

Kind Regards and thanks in advance for any help!

Pete

Edited by: Peter Rauchenstein on Jan 21, 2011 12:32 PM

Hi Experts ,

I am trying to integrate Fiori application into portal 7.4.

I am followed all the steps mentioned in document

Creating SAP Fiori iViews - Portal - SAP Library

But whenever i am trying to preview sap fiori iview it is giving blank screen changed into fiori application color.

I have checked using debugger tool it says that ,

"Clickjack prevention has prevented Fiori Launchpad to load into iFrame"

Please suggest.

Thanks in advance.

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There are some Special Expertise Partners that provide complementary offerings for SAP Enterprise Portal:

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btexx was renamed to VANTAiO in 2015. See also the Portal offering of VANTAiO:

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Interoperability with Microsoft and IBM

Hi

I have activated the fiori launchpad in my portal but the webdynpro java appllications don´t get the correct CSS. There is a 404 not found resource:

https://myportal/com.sap.portal.design.urdesigndata/themes/portal/sap_bluecrystal/ls/ls_standards.css

Is there any problem with the theme? what theme must I use?

Thanks

Hello,

we implemented the note above by applying patch 7.5 SP 3 lvl 000, but we're still experiencing the white gap below the TLN.

Any hints?

Hi all,

We have a requirement in a client to integrate the SAP Portal Knowledge Management with SAP HCM.

Follow the scenario:

Today they are using MS Sharepoint to publish policies, standards and procedures.

Each document has a respective job that is mandatory the reading.

Today the have a system developed by the IT department that links the document to the respective job.

We are implementing SAP HCM + Portal and all the jobs and organizational structure will be migrated from the legacy system.

Our idea is to use Portal KM to substitute Sharepoint and we need to link each document to a specific organizational unit, job, position or task in HCM.

With that, when a document is updated, Portal sends a notification to the employees under each organizational unit ou job, or position or task, to read the document.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Felipe Barros

Hi Experts,

I am unable to see the loan request iview in ESS/MSS. I have added the standard loan request iview to ESS/MSS role then assigned to user. But when we open the ESS/MSS can't see the loan request iview. Please help me out from this.

Thanks and Regards,

RR

Hi Experts,

Currently we are using NWDS 7.2 with SP8. and my portal version 7.2008.20120802105730.0000

We want to install NWDS 7.3 this nwds tool will support my portal version ? could please tell me ..

if its work  then please provide me complete download NWDS path.

Regards,

venkat

HI All,

We are on Portal 7.4 version, and we would like to display a pop message of the browser version when the users initially login to sap portal. If they are not using the right browser version, we have to display a message saying " you dont have a right browser version , please use the right one eg IE11".

how can i read the browser version and display a message on the initial login of the portal? Appreciate if any one can answer if it is possible to do like this?

Thanks,

Vinay

Hi Gurus,

I'm working on EP upgrade from 7.0 to 7.4 and need some clarity regarding the migration of custom WDJ applications which exits currently.

>>What do we do regarding the current NWDI, Products, SC and Tracks which consists of the Developments.

>>How do I migrate this

>>Do we perform the migration task before the EP upgrade or after EP upgrade.

Also I see that the Tracks is only available in DEV EP. There's no CMS configured in QA & PRD Portals but the custom SC are available in PRD portal.

I've gone through may blogs which says regarding rebuilding the DC's by using NWDS 7.3 but no where I got to know about the tracks, when to do this activity, will the current tracks needs to be upgraded or just creating projects in NWDS 7.3 and rebuilding will work.

Please Suggest as I'm struggling a lot.

Regards,

Ravi

Backdrop:  When editing an existing XML Form or creating a new XML Form in Knowledge Management which contains a large number of input fields, it is not possible to navigate between input fields using the keyboard tab key.

Analyzing the Behavior

1. Create a new XML Form or edit an existing XML Form which contains a large number of input fields, like the sample image above.
2. Using the tab key on your keyboard try to navigate between the various entry fields.
3. You are not able to navigate between the fields using the tab key.

Why is this occurring?

This is a browser specific issue which normally only occurs in Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer is unable to handle the complex HTML tables that are created when rendering such large XML Forms, as a result the tabbing functionality will not work.

Internet Explorer Points

As we know with different Web Browser Platforms comes a set of different Parameter & Property settings which need to be maintained in order to support optimal performance (functional aspect) and rendering. Additional information about the SAP release dates is provided within the publication of the current product matrix for NetWeaver (see SAP Service Marketplace at http://service.sap.com/PAM).

On the PAM you can find the details relevant for your current Web Browser Platform on whether or not it is supported and the limitations (if any) which may exist in such a Product Version setup. If you are using an older browser version I recommend reviewing the links below as IE11 is now the recommended version for utilization. For IE8/9/10 support has ended.

- SAP Note: 1458799 - Limited supportability for Internet Explorer 8 & 9

Resolving the KeyTab Issue

1. If possible try using a different browser, e.g. Firefox/Chrome.
2. Avoid too much "overlapping" of your controls as this leads to complex HTML tables and also to this tab problem.
3. Try to arrange your controls more like a table, with less columns, as depicted in the images below.