Mastering SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0 Application Development

Renald Wittwer graduated as a computer scientist at a technical college and has worked as a freelance technology consultant and developer for many years. He mainly focuses on SAP NetWeaver, dealing among other things with procurement and presentation of data from different systems and contexts in ergonomic Web interfaces tailored to users' needs. Business Server Pages (ABAP), Web Dynpro (Java), and SAP Enterprise Portal serve as his technical foundation. Renald was deeply involved in projects for SAP Portals (the portal-development unit of SAP), various electric utilities, Airbus Germany, and other organizations.

1. Introduction ... 3 ... 1.1 Approach ... 3 ... 1.2 Acknowledgments ... 4 2. Employee Portal ... 5 ... 2.1 Displaying Sales Orders ... 6 ... 2.2 Designing the User Interface of the Sales Order List ... 12 ... 2.3 Portal Integration of the Sales Order List ... 20 ... 2.4 Displaying Order Details ... 22 ... 2.5 Designing the User Interface of the Order Details ... 28 3. Customer Portal ... 35 ... 3.1 Configurations in the Portal ... 35 ... 3.2 Forcing a Logon ... 36 ... 3.3 Role-Based Behavior ... 37 4. Partner Portal ... 49 ... 4.1 Phone List ... 49 ... 4.2 Implementing the Phone List ... 55 ... 4.3 Authentication ... 65 ... 4.4 Portal Integration ... 65 5. Tips and Tricks ... 69 ... 5.1 Sneak Preview ... 69 ... 5.2 Troubleshooting During Web Dynpro Development ... 71 6. Summary ... 75 Index ... 77