What is SAP Fiori launchpad?

SAP Fiori launchpad is a role based, personalized aggregation point for business applications and analytics. It runs on multiple devices, using the responsive design paradigm, and  is deployable on multiple platforms. It is designed according to the simple and intuitive SAP Fiori user experience, while supporting established UI technologies. More information: see the SCN Community for SAP Fiori.

SAP Fiori Launchpad in SAP Enterprise Portal

SAP Fiori launchpad running on the SAP Enterprise Portal is a key milestone in aligning the SAP UI Clients (Fiori launchpad, Portal, NWBC) with the Fiori UX design. It is delivered as a new multichannel portal framework page following the Fiori design guidelines while leverages the portal underlying technology and administration processes.The new Fiori launchpad on the SAP Enterprise Portal is the recommended approach for consuming the SAP Portal on mobile devices.

Watch this video showing some end user features:

SAP Fiori Features Comparison in SAP NetWeaver 7.4 Releases

Read the following note which lists the known issues, which are still not supported by SAP Fiori launchpad on Portal.

Versions

• NW 7.31 SPS12 >> NW 7.4 SPS7
• NW 7.31 SPS13 >> NW 7.4 SPS8
• NW 7.31 SPS14 >> NW 7.4 SPS9
• NW 7.31 SPS15 >> NW 7.4 SPS10
• NW 731 SPS16 >> NW 7.4 SPS11 (Java stack SP11)
• NW 731 SPS17 >> NW 7.4 SPS13 (Java stack SP12)
• NW 731 SPS18 >> NW 7.4 SPS15 (Java stack 13
  

SAP Fiori Launchpad in SAP NetWeaver 7.5

SAP Fiori UX renovation according to SAP Fiori UX paradigm is also an important topic for SAP Enterprise Portal on SAP NetWeaver 7.5. For more information read this blog, which lists the planned and already existing features of SAP Portal on SAP NetWeaver 7.5.

Differences between Enterprise Portal on SAP NetWeaver 7.4 and SAP NetWeaver 7.5

Until now there are no big differences between the feature scope of Enterprise Portal on SAP NetWeaver 7.4 and SAP NetWeaver 7.5. The features that were already delivered on SAP NetWeaver 7.5 are listed in this blog. All those features are also planned to be available on NetWeaver 7.4 SPS15 (Java stack 13).

For more information check out the following notes:

2190368 - Enhancements on Portal NW 7.50 SPS01 and NW 7.31 SPS18 / NW 7.40 SPS15

2190375 - Enhancements on Portal NW 7.50 SPS02 and NW 7.31 SPS18 / NW 7.40 SPS15

2240950 - Enhancements on Portal NW 7.50 SPS03 and NW 7.31 SPS18 / NW 7.40 SPS15

The only feature which is not available on NetWeaver 7.4 is the news tile, which is part of SAP NetWeaver 7.5 Support Package stack 02.

In future support packages the differences between Enterprise Portal on SAPNetWeaver 7.4 and 7.5 will become more obvious. The blog describes also the main feature areas, which will only be part of NetWeaver 7.5.

Presentations

SAP Enterprise Portal 7.4 Service Pack 7 - Whats New

New Features in SAP Enterprise Portal 7.4: Features and Highlights

White Papers

SAP Enterprise Portal and SAP Fiori - Common Architecture Recommendations

SAP Fiori Launchpad - Deployment Options Common Recommendations

Product Videos
Introducing SAP Fiori Launchpad

SAP Fiori Launchpad on SAP Enterprise Portal

SAP Fiori Launchpad on SAP Enterprise Portal - Tablet

How to integrate Fiori Wave 2 apps with Enterprise Portal

SAP Fiori Launchpad on Smartphone

SAP Fiori Launchpad on Desktop

Product Demos on SAP NetWeaver 7.4 Service Pack 11 (= 7.31 Service Pack 16)

End User Experience

Administration Experience

Blogs

openSAP courses that feature SAP's new User Experience:
SAP´S UX Strategy in a Nutshell

Introduction to SAP Fiori UX

Documentation

SAP Fiori Launchpad in SAP Library

Release Notes

Notes

SAP Fiori Integration with SAP Enterprise Portal Central Note - SAP Note 2031108

Introduction

In terms of "theming" the UI Theme Designer is the newly released and newly available platform for both editing and generation. In terms of functional enhancements with the UI Theme Designer they key terms here are:

• CSS, LESS, SAP UI5, SAP NW AS ABAP, SAP NW Portal, Usability, Flexibility

Over the last few years the UI Theme Designer is becoming more widely adopted as a result of SP Updates and System Landscape Upgrades right across the Netweaver& Portal areas. Unfortunately on some occasions as a result of system changes we come across unexpected issues and certain behaviors which can have a impact on our everyday work activities and business requirements.

In my experiences I've worked on a few separate scenarios in which the UI Theme Designer posed certain issues upon attempting to utilize it for the first time.

UI Theme Designer - Blank Display

Let us take a sample scenario and use a working example of a recently performed Portal Upgrade. Upon completing the upgrade all operations and components deploying correctly but the subsequent attempt to activate the UI Theme Designer resulted in end-users encountering a blank /irj/portal page.

Obviously such behavior is a reason for concern therefore let us kick start our investigation from a high level analysis perspective and determine whether or not the issues root source can be traced to a definitive culprit.

Begin Troubleshooting & Analysis: 3 Principles To Follow - If you encounter an issue

1. Determine firstly if the issue happens in all web browser platforms (Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla)?
2. Did you clear the Cache after the upgrade and is every user encountering the issue?
   
3. Determine if the issue occurs in both SAP Standard Themes& CustomThemes?
4. Determine if the issue can be reproduced in all Portal Framework & Theme Combinations?

If you've followed the three principles above you already have a better understanding of your issue and can delve quickly into further analysis to get a solution.

Next Phase -  Check Configuration Setup, Theme Designer Activation & Retest the Scenario:

1. Login to Netweaver Administrator (NWA) from the Desktop.
2. http://<host>:<port>/nwa.
3. Within the NWA, navigation to Operations> Systems> Start & Stop> Java Applications.
4. Filter the Application List by through the 'Name' field by typing 'laf'.
5. Press Enter. Scroll to the 'Portal Service Details' section before selecting the 'Portal Services' tab followed by 'Portal Service Configuration'.
   • "com.sap.portal.themes.lafservice" is selected automatically
6. Change the value of the "Determine what will be the theme runtime provider" property to LESS followed by the "Save" button. Restart the portal service "com.sap.portal.themes.lafservice".
   • Upon activating the UI Theme Designer, the Theme Editor will be deactivated,
7. Launch the UI Theme Designer> Content Administration> Portal Display> Portal Themes> UI Theme Designer

Is the blank page still encountered? The most likely cause if so is a UI Theme Designer discrepancy post upgrade.

How to resolve the issue

In simple terms the resolution would be to perform a FullPortalRestart (during a period of low usage statistics).

1. Login to Netweaver Administrator (NWA)) from Desktop.
2. http://<host>:<port>/nwa.
3. Navigate to "Operations Management" > "Systems" > "Start & Stop". Select the "Java EE Application" bar before selecting the relevant application in the list (Portal).
   • The "Start & Stop": Java EE Instances Window appears.
4. Choose"Start Service or Stop Service". If this fails to resolve the issue the recommendation is to redeploy the EP-BASIS component SCA. If this fails to resolve the issue the recommendation is to redeploy the EP-BASIS component SCA.
   • Please restart the whole portal in case the UI Theme Designer cannot be activated accordingly.
5. If this fails to resolve the issue the recommendation is to redeploy the EP-BASIS component SCA.

Hi

We are using FFP (7.4-SP13) and want to use a dynamic tile. The dynamic Information should be retrieved from local KM on the Portal (e.g. number of News in a KM Folder). I have read through various Blogs and documentation saying that a "Service" can be used.

However documentation is not detailed enough about what Kind of Service is meant and what data structure Needs to be returned by this Service.

Has somebody implemented such a function already and can share more details?

Best regards,

Johannes

Dear Experts,

Please suggest me,how to download  all exiasted users list including Roles , Groups into excel sheet from enterprise portal

Hi Team,

A weird issue!

When the end-user tries to connect to a transaction iview he gets a pop-up saying the above.

Observations :

1. For most of the users, it works fine.

2. Tried the note : 901949 but not able to locate the SSD_URL_Postfix = /tx.ssd as per this note.

Any help in this regard would be appreciated.

Regards,

Sam

Dear Experts,

I'm in a pretty desperate situation. This was a dual-stack NetWeaver 7.4 system. Yesterday I've finished the Dual-Stack split

procedure and I've determined, that it completely destroyed the configuration of the BI Diagnostics and Support Desk Tool.

I need to make at least the SAP_BW connection in the portal work, but no matter what I do, it fails miserably with this error:

No connection to system SAP_BW found

No connection to system SAP_BW found:

com.sapportals.connector.connection.ConnectionFailedException: Connection Failed: A nested exception occurred. Could not initialize physical connection.

Connection Failed: A nested exception occurred. Could not initialize physical connection.

Connection Failed: A nested exception occurred. Could not create JCO connection.

The Issuer of SSO ticket is not authorized.

What I did so far:

1) Replaced the entry in STRUSTSSO2

2) Generated new certificates and exchanged them several times

3) Deleted all the old certificates of the Java stack in STRUSTSSO2

4) Restarted both the ABAP and Java system several times

5) Checked that the SSO parameters in RZ10 are correct (accept and issue of sso tickets)

6) I found the following thread:

http://scn.sap.com/thread/157587

but it didn't bring any help in my case. Please kindly advise on how to solve this tricky situation!

Many thanks in advance!

Hi

I am trying to download the portal certification (verify.der) file from Portal 7.1(CE Portal) to upload in ECC system for configuring the Single sign on. But i am not able to find the keystore Administration option under System Configuration. Usually it is available under the keystore admin in portal.

Please let me know what is the issue. How i can download the portal certificate is there other place i can access to download the certificate in portal. Is navigation is different for  7.1 portal for downloading the certificate.

I am attaching the System Admin navigation  screen shot for your reference. It doesn't have any key store administration.

Thanks

Hi All,

There is one html file in KM content. I need to change one url for a hyperlink in that file. I have done the changes in dev and it works fine but once I transport the changes in quality I am facing a weird issue. After transport if I preview the html page in quality, I am still getting same old url for hyperlink but if I open the same file in edit online mode I could see the new url maintained in quality. I have done the transport of the same file 2-3 times to QA but not able to get the new url in preview mode. Cleared the browser cache as well but nothing works.

Any suggestion please..

Thanks in advance

Ravindra

On this page you get an overview on partner offerings, interoperability with Microsoft and IBM and other interesting sources for partner information.

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

VANTAiO (formerly known as btexx)

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

https://www.vantaio.com/de/sap-portal-loesungen

https://www.vantaio.com/de/sap-portal-plattform

HO2

HO2 digital services

Every company can become a digital business today. Here, the SAP Portal plays a central function in connecting areas, such as products and services,

employees, information flow, customer network and to provide digital services through a single access point adding unique value. Access to on-premise and cloud-based solutions can be managed as well as mobile SAP Fiori and SAP UI5 Services.

Intranet consulting and services    http://www.ho2-gmbh.de/themen/intranet-beratung/

Based on the SAP portal management and content management system "HO2 SmartCMS" we offer ready-made digital jobs. We connect the user, integrate business applications and provide current, device independent and broad access on desktops, tablets and smartphones. That makes it possible to control business processes anywhere and anytime.

Mobile Apps and Portals

By means of the SAP Portal based solution - HO2 SmartCMS and the SAP Portal default mechanisms, it is possible to provide "out of the box" mobile enterprise portals. Empowered users can e.g. flexibly access the HO2 SmartCMS on SAP Fiori apps  and make them available to the end-user, based on their permissions. You can specify on which kind of device the navigation points, as well as specific iViews are displayed. The SAP Portal is thus the central mobile workplace and an important instrument in the digitization strategy of the company.

Interoperability with Microsoft and IBM

Hello

What type of SAP Portal license will be required for following architecture of applications

1. Application will be hosted on internet facing Portal through anonymous user based access to SAP Portal and to the corresponding application
2. Application's data store will be SAP Portal data base created through Data Dictionary Projects created using NWDS
3. Application's business logic to perform CRUD operations on Portal Database will be contained in EJB projects created using NWDS. These EJB projects will provide necessary REST APIs for consumption in user interface layer of the application.
4. Application's user interface will be created using SAPUI5

Also, can NWDI still be used for version control of SAPUI5 applications?

Thank you

Regards

Abhishek

Dear experts,

we are facing an issue with translations in our MSS portal solution. We'd like to translate marked nodes:

I've tried  translating them in pfcg transaction(backend) but it doesn't work:

Please, could you help me?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Best Regards,

Maria José Guart

Introduction

In this blog posting we going to cover a topic which can affect an entire landscape and Netweaver environment which is that of "Performance Degradation" and follow on issues.

KM Folders & Documents

KM Folders are utilized as the base platform in which KM Documents are stored.Knowledge Management in itself can be considered as a means of functionality for end-users wanting to access such "Documents" which can relate to a whole range of processes. For example through KMEnd-Users can access, obtain, manage and review data information through documents sourced from the business  intranets, external WWW feeds, and file servers. The KM Documents themselves are presented in the standard formats of PPT, excel, word documents and html.

KM Folders & Functional Options

A User with KM designated KM Folder access can perform the following options:

• Copy: Generates a copy of the currently selected item to a target folder (maintaining the original).
• Move: Transports currently selected item to target folder source.
• Rename: Allows you to rename currently selected item
• Create Link: Generates between folder items
• Clipboard: Copy & Paste functionality for item movement handling.
• Delete: Delete currently selected item permanently or remove to the wastebasket service.

As we see above there are a broad range of functions that can be utilized by end-users.

Manual Copies & Issues

Let us create a working example in which an end-user with access to KM Folders& Content has manually (inadvertently) copied or moved entire KM Folder Contents i.e. documents to their Favorites. Obviously dependent on business requirements and operations the file content sizing (GB) will vary drastically but lets imagine in this case that the file sizes where hundreds of Gigabytes. If a users logs onto the Portal and Navigates to Content Management (System Administration> System Configuration> Knowledge Management> Content Management) and then proceeds to the KM iView and copies an entire folder (with high GB) the following occurs:

• Upon performing this action the end-user is essentially initiating action on the Database (DB). Documents will be copied into the Favorites setting folder but this change will also be replicated within the Database itself.
• Depending on the filing size such an action can cause strain on the system itself thus causing the performance of the setup to become negatively impaired and can even lead to a system downtime i.e. outage or error exceptions.

Cause for Concern

The after affect of the user copying such a large volume of data is that the DB has a two-fold increase in size as it includes an increase in the KM Version for each document.

Issue Avoidance & Preventive Measures

There is no clean-cut solution in this particular case but advisory guidance steps which can be followed to prevent such an issues recurrence. In true essence there is no means of restricting the limit of KM Document Versions in the DB. Based upon the initial issue of the "content" copy  it is not possible to transport KM Documents with current versions and this is standard functionality. Therefore as we discussed the DB two-fold increase cannot be undone.  Unfortunately no clean cut method to prevent a user manually copying contents of a large folder to their favorites.

If desired there is the option of configuring set filters on repositories to prevent uploads of files exceeding a certain size.

• However this would not affect attempts to copy-content it would ensure "such attempts" would fail but the user could still attempt the functionality. 

• Content Filters:https://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw73/helpdata/en/55/921d7bb0c611d5993800508b6b8b11/content.htm
• Repository Filters: https://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw73/helpdata/en/69/d96b80a84611d5993600508b6b8b11/content.htm

Hi Experts,

There is a requirement to deploy an EJB development in our Portal 7.4 Landscape.This development is all about webservices , which will be called by Microsoft FIMS for User/Roles administration like, Create User, retrieve & assign groups/roles, disable/enable Users etc.

We are in the process of configuring NWDI Track for this deployment.Which are all the software components, needs to be checked in and imported into the track for this EJB deployment?

Initially we have tried to import SAP_ESS 633 and and its dependent components into the track.However we are not sure, whether all the dependent components are having correct Release and Support Pack number.

Will it show the required Patch levels of the dependent SW component also?

Is this the right way for creating the Track and this EJB Deployment? Please suggest to proceed further.

Thanks & Best Rgds,

Kiran Sathyan.

Is Crystal Reports compatible with MYOB?

Thanks

Hi,

Please help with below Exception ID.

Thanks.

Hello All,

In enterprise portal, I am trying to create a new role of read/write for PCD Inspector (under:  System Administration > Support > PCD Tools) without 'super_admin_role' (SAP standard portal role) but I am getting blank page while opening PCD Inspector option after login with the new role.

When I am assigning standard portal role, 'super_admin_role' then page is showing with expected content.

I am creating new role by copying standard portal role, 'super_admin_role' from Content Administration tab.

Can anyone please help me that why is this page showing blank?

Thanks & Regards,

Ashok Sarkar

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.

Hi all

We are using Mobile Framework Page for accessing SAP EP on Mobile Devices. For this purpose we have defined Device Groups and are using Mobile Framework Page.

However we have noticed that on Apple devices and on few Samsung devices, the Framework Page doesn't work consistently. The footer used in application doesn't remain fixed at bottom and either goes down (needs to scroll down) or is displayed middle of screen.

Has any one faced similar issue? how can it be resolved.

Many thanks in advance.

Regards,

Deepak Salokhe

Hello everyone,

We need an application in our Customer Portal which should post some data obtained from a 3rd party vendor into the ECC system. The 3rd party vendor will not have authorizations(logins) in our portal. Instead we will give them a portal application URL which they will run via Scheduling process. All they want is a simple jsp page which will process the parameter they send through HTTP. The JSP file doesnt need any UI elements or anything. All they want our application to do is to get the parameter, post the data into the ECC and show whether the transaction is success or not (via a simple out.println)

My question here is if I develop a portal application with only a jsp file with a code to get the parameter value and call an RFC to post the data into the ECC, which URL do I need to give them to run? When I go to the Content Admin --> Portal Contents --> Portal Applications --><My Application> and preview, I get an URL. Is that the URL of my portal application that I can give it to the 3rd party or I can get the URL from some other place which can be run from any system? Will my application work without any user authentication?

Or for the requirement, is there any other better way to achieve?

Hello Experts,

I have added marquee tag in an existing logon par file and I am trying to export by deploying the new par.

I am are getting below error (Screemshot attached)

please help me how to correct the error.

Thanks in advance for your reply.

Regards,

Fayaz SHAIK.