This section describes how to integrate content into the Help menu of your SAP NetWeaver Portal. The portal administrator or basis administrator needs to perform these steps.

 

Because of the highly configurable nature of the SAP NetWeaver Portal, the steps that you must perform may be different than the steps presented here. These instructions assume the portal default framework is in use. If another framework is in use, or if the default framework has been substantially modified, these instructions may not work.

 

Procedure To display this content in a context-sensitive manner:

  1. Deploy the published Player to a web server in the same domain as the SAP Netweaver Portal or copy the Application Instance Configuration files to the same server on which the SAP Netweaver Portal is deployed. You get the Application Instance Configuration files by creating an IAS Confguration document in Developer and selecting Export Instance Configuration. See Domain Relaxing in this section for more information.
  2. Configure the Portal Help Link.

Deploy the Configuration on the NetWeaver Portal Server 

If the content is published to a server in the same domain as the portal and your NetWeaver Portal server is using domain relaxing, it is not necessary to copy the Application Instance Configuration files to the NetWeaver Portal server. This is only needed if the Player is deployed in a different domain.

 

ProcedureTo create and export an IAS Configuration document for SAP Netweaver Portal in the Developer:

  1. In the Developer, create an IAS Configuration document.
     
  2. In the Sources section, click Select outline and select the outline with the content you created for SAP Netweaver. In the Caption field, enter a title to show on the tab or link.
     
    Note: If you choose Web Server as the deployment type, you must specify the URL where you deploy the content. If you choose Knowledge Center as the deployment type, the Content Root URL must be set.
     
  3. In the Application Instances section, in the Type list choose SAP NetWeaver Portal and select the Help Integration option
     
  4. Select the source you defined in step 2 as the Default Player.
     
  5. Optional: If you are configuring help integration for more than one language, click the add new link under Segment Players for each language and specify the appropriate language code.
     
  6. Save the IAS Configuration document.
     
  7. Click Export Instance Configuration in the Application Instances section. The files that you need are in the exported folder.

The contents of the sapnwep/hemi folder in the exported Application Instance Configuration must be placed at a location that meets the following requirements:

For example, if the URL to access your portal is


http://netweaverportal.example.com:50000/irj/portal


then the location where you place the gateway and configuration files may be something like:


http://help.example.com:50000/sapnwep/hemi/

 

Domain Relaxing 

Domain relaxing is a method of enabling web-based scripting between components that the web browser would normally prevent due to cross-domain scripting security concerns. In some cases, however, this scripting enables desired functionality. Domain relaxing is designed to allow cross-domain scripting between components served from similar root domains (for example, content.example.com and server2.example.com). Help Menu Integration for SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal uses the same domain relaxing technique that SAP uses. Additional documentation can be found at: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/28/7c383f717b5f03e10000000a114084/content.htm.

 

If you are using domain relaxing, the Player and the Application Instance Configuration files do not need to be separated. No IAS Configuration is necessary unless segmentation is needed. You can simply publish and deploy the content, and the gateway files are located in the sapnwep/hemi folder.

 

Configure the Portal Help Link 

The final task in setting up integrated context-sensitive Help for your SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal is to configure the portal's Help link.

 

ProcedureA user with Administration rights can perform the following steps:

  1. Log into the SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal.
     
  2. Click the Content Administration tab.
     
  3. In the Portal Content area, expand the Portal Content tree item.
     
  4. Open the Portal Users folder.
     
  5. Open the Standard Portal Users folder.
     
  6. Double-click the Default Frameworks Page to open it.
     
  7. Select the checkbox for the Masthead iView Page Content item.
     
  8. Click the Edit button.
     
  9. In the Property Category drop-down list select Navigation.
     
  10. In the URL of Help Link field, enter the URL of the sapnwep_gateway.html file. For example, the URL you enter may look similar to:
     
    http://help.example.com:50000/sapnwep/hemi/sapnwep_gateway.html
     
  11. Save your changes.

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