SAP Netweaver Enterprise Portal, intranet portals, business portals

FREE SAP Portal Training

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Urs) — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 03:21:00 +0000

nuff said...this site itself is a good start for FREE SAP Portal Training.

Start with these links:

Business Portals

SAP Portal Single Sign On

Intranet Portals Visual Composer

Business Portals Visual Composer

SAP Portal

call me on google voice, ping me on google talk or send me an email

you couldn't ask for a better FREE SAP Portal Training

Mikogo

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Urs) — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 04:39:00 +0000

Folks,
Here is “SAP Portal Support” one step further! Mikogo is a cool web conferencing tool which is free just like the content sharing in this site!! A lot of people send me emails with error messages and they request me to fix their issue. I think a web conference tool will ease the communication and hence collaboration will be highly effective! so the next time you have an issue leave a message on my Google Voice Number and schedule a web conference meeting in Mikogo and I will chat with you on Gtalk and help you with your SAP Portal Issues...

SAP Portal Transaction iView

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Urs) — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:41:00 +0000

This is a question from Dolly Gonzalez from bogota, South America regarding variants in a SAP Portal Transaction iView....passing a variant value from an ABAP program to an iView is sometimes challenging but with this blog configuring this iView will be a lot easy...remember to work with an ABAP programmer as this blog talks a little bit of ABAP.

read more...

SAP Portal Single Sign On

Portal is SLOW ! part -II

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Urs) — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:35:00 +0000

Folks,
there is a discussion in the linkedin community regarding this topic. please share your thoughts !!

click here to read more..

SAP Portal Single Sign On
read part I here..

SAP BI blog update..

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Urs) — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:49:00 +0000

Error DTP handling

PSA Database Table and Data

Data load in PSA

BI Data Loading Basics

Portal 104

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Urs) — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:45:00 +0000

Portal 104 has been added. this time we will look at monitoring and administration of Enterprise Portal. check the links on the left panel under "Portal Lessons"

SAP Portal Single Sign On

Portal is SLOW !

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Urs) — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 02:22:00 +0000

SAP Netweaver PortalCan you make it run faster ???

Now …how many times have you heard that ?? To find a quick answer to this question here is a laundry list of items to check immediately if it’s a simple problem.. my dear friend Renjith Stalin who is an expert SAP Basis Professional asked me if I can put a list of items to check on the portal….so click here to read more…..

also read this

Speak Up !!

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Urs) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:18:00 +0000

SAP has a new survey for implementing an "external facing portal".

raise your concern, suggestions etc follow this link:

SAP Netweaver Portal

Apothekerlypsed !!!

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Urs) — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:46:00 +0000

the throne is still empty ??? SAP CEO resigns !!

read this article on the economist .

SAP Business Intelligence Blogs Update..

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Urs) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:33:00 +0000

Routine Lesson # 2

Routine Lesson # 3

Previous Update:

Routine Lesson-1
POSNR- The misleading field in ECC
Sales Order Model-1

Portal is acting weird !!

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Urs) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:18:00 +0000

how many times have you heard an end-user complain like that ???

the Portal Guy/Basis Guy is always blamed for the system to act weird....However you as a Portal Guy have fingers to point too....

Browser
Server
Portal application
Network

there are scenarios where user complains of slow portal connection and this could be the internet speed as well.....so use the following to check the internet speed. a good Portal application should run fine depending on the way it is installed (3-10 mbps)

1.Speedtest.net Internet Speed Test
2.AuditMyPC.com Internet Speed Test
3.CNET Bandwidth Meter Speed Test

sometimes a user is playing an online movie and consuming the network bandwidth or an end user has christmas decorations on his browser (I mean toolbars, funny short cuts etc) OR a user is running on a browser SAP doesnt support... NOW how many fingers do we have to point ????
anyways lets get back to help them....

Also the browser can be acting funny too....so check out these tools to determine whats going on...
Browser testing tools:

1.Sun spider
2.Celtic kane
3.V8
4.iBench
5.httpwatch basic

Portal 103 updated

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Urs) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:46:00 +0000

Portal lesson 103 will deal more on Visual Composer.
click on the links under Portal Lessons...

SAP Business Intelligence

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Urs) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:33:00 +0000

As I advance further in my career I have now ventured into the world of Business Intelligence and with my attitude of Collaboration, I shall share everything I learn with you folks...so join me to start this new blog:
RahulUrsBW on WordPress

Routine Lesson-1

POSNR- The misleading field in ECC

Sales Order Model-1

Catch me Online !

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Urs) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:16:00 +0000

I receive several google talk invites and I hate to decline them...so I decided to have a new widget for google talk on this blog and now you can ask me a Portal question when I am online....(the widget is located below the google voice).

SAP Portal Certificate error for SSO

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Urs) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:54:00 +0000

“system is unable to interpret the SSO ticket received”.

If the below picture is what you see ..then you have to assume that the sky is on the ground ! here is a quick solution: READ MORE

Poor BI Performance hurts Portal Part - II

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Urs) — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:38:00 +0000

consider troubleshooting a Portal system downtime and you are unable to bring up the server ,you can log on to NWA and try to access the java system reports and notice the user activities or the slowest response time objects. you might find that one of the sever processes in yor instance , central instance or the dialog instance may be doing a garbage collection and using up all resources to bring up the server to function correctly.the system can be so slow that if you are running on a web dispatacher within the LAN, you could time out or the application could ( /irj ) time out due to a long delay in response from the server process. the next place to go is the visual administration tool which can tell you the costly object which is killing the server.on the portal, several systems that are connected to it may cause the system to come down. for example if a BI system is conneceted to the portal and if you run a scheduled report using BEx Broadcaster you can turn on a background job in BI and if the job fails for some reason you could end up with the background work process in BI running forever and this could potentially eat up resources in AS JAVA and hence bring the system down. hence, Portal need not be the one stop to identify bottlenecks. the interfaces play a huge role in its activities which goes back to the definition of Portal: an interface or one stop to access everything by using connectors to communicate with the interfaced systems.
this is the second part of the series. read the first one here

Portal Anonymous User Concept

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Urs) — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:21:00 +0000

I guarantee, that you can have the named anonymous users defined correctly based on the explanation given below:
I have done this too many times on several SPS levels and this concept has its own history.....so trust me on the below tips...

The concept of named anonymous user has always been a topic of discussion in the forums...here are some tips on this topic

READ ON....

SAP Web Dispatcher and Enterprise Portal SSL (Part - II)

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Urs) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:29:00 +0000

This is the second part of the series...read the first part published on Nov 9th 2008

SAP Web Dispatcher and Enterprise Portal(Part - I)

Here is a detailed description of configuring SSL on Enterprise Portal

READ MORE

SAP Portal Hotline !

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Urs) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:28:00 +0000

"The best learning comes from collaboration"

The above statement has always been my motto for a long time and this time I am taking it one step higher !

We as SAP professionals need to collaborate for faster solutions. Currently we have Blogs, Forums, Emails, Podcasts, E-learning, Articles, Chat messages and lately Google Wave…the list goes on.
Sometimes we only wish we can talk to the other person and be more expressive about our work…….

The day has come and I am going to introduce for the first time (I was told), the first ever SAP PORTAL HOTLINE!

Google Voice has revolutionized the art of collaborating by allowing us to have a conversation with our fellow experts and hopefully inspire more people to get hooked on to Google Voice and place the Widget on their BlogSpot and call each other if there is a CRISIS during production support or handle a crazy project manager trying to kill you to resolve a technical issue in SAP or in general have a meaningful conversation!

If you have a question regarding SAP Portal click on the Call Me button under the title SAP Portal Hotline and leave a message regarding your question and if you are one of those folks living in the US of A, I can get back to you with a phone call if you leave your phone number in the message. I could have taken calls but I can only imagine my phone ringing all the time. Hence I will start with “Leave a Message” and soon open my phone to ring……here is my Google Voice Number: (201) 357-0516
(Remember to use your headset on your computer to leave a message)

Internet Explorer 8 : NOT SUITED for SAP PORTAL

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Urs) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:26:00 +0000

I have mentioned this a million times and I will repeat it again.....MOVE ON !

Internet explorer is a primitive tool, learn to accept change, accept new browsers especially CHROME ! sometimes i think of staging a protest until SAP realizes the idea of change and move on with something more faster than Internet Explorer...below is some research on how internet explorer SUCKS !

Read more....

service.sap.com/PAM explains the support of IE8 on SAP Portal...here is a picture

Portal Landscape Question

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Urs) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:31:00 +0000

Lately I've been getting a lot of emails on questions regarding Portal Landscape concepts and i felt i should share it with you readers ...below is one of those questions and my reply:

Hi Rahul,
I have been reading through your blog on The Cloak and Dagger about Portal and BI Connectivity.We are on SAP NW 7.0(SR1)-BI 7.0 usage types ABAP+Java. We are planning to go for EP with BI Environment. As of now we have three options in our Current scenario.
1) Building EP on the existing environment (ABAP+JAVA).
2) Fresh installation of EP which requires additional hardware.
3) We are alredy using EP for ESS, can we integrate the existing EP (ESS) with BI.
Currently our BI Portal internal portal is running on BSP+WEB Dispatcher+ICM functionality.Please suggest on how to go forward with the scenario's above. Also, suggest the major advantages of integrating EP with BI.

Read the Response

DO NOT HACK your SAP system : SE16N threats

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Urs) — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:02:00 +0000

(WARNING: DO NOT TRY THIS IN YOUR PRODUCTION SYSTEM)
Follow these simple steps to hack SAP.

1. Execute tcode SE16N.
2. Type &SAP_EDIT into the command field and press enter.
3. Enter any standard SAP table: VBAK for example and hit F8.
4. You can now edit and change data in the table and you can also delete rows and columns.
Ok, now you know that you can always catch that culprit and put him in a sack and bury him in the backyard for doing this insane HACK! Guess what.....The changes that are made using this command prompt WILL NOT BE STORED IN THE CHANGE DOCUMENT TABLES: SE16N_CD_KEY: Change Documents – Header and SE16N_CD_DATA : Change Documents – Data
But wait a second………………HELLO! what’s the point when he/she has already screwed your database and consider this guy is pissed off with the management for some reason and wants to screw the company and implements this simple HACK …….TOO LATE buddy !

How about that SAP ???

So my dear blog fans, immediately tell the folks in your company to remove this t-code (SE16N) access in the production system ….use SE16 instead!!

Ways to control this situation and RISK factors ....CLICK HERE

SAP Business Objects Explorer

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Urs) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:44:00 +0000

This is definitely the first blog which is drifting away from SAP portal but this is the future web application for analyzing data ! SAP BEx could not do this with such ease ...now we know why they merged with BO...read all about it here SAP Business Objects Explorer

and check this out fellas ...i used an excel file in the instructions mentioned in this link BUSINESS OBJECTS EXPLORER and i could not believe this !!!

EXAMPLE BUSINESS OBJECTS EXPLORER

also check this article on BO Explorer i found in SDN

Twitter !

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Urs) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:30:00 +0000

Welcome to the world of Twitter on SAP NW Portal. please follow us on some useful tips and tricks which will help us collaborate better..

http://twitter.com/SAPNWPortal

New Design!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Rahul Urs) — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:41:00 +0000

Hello folks..

The old template started to look like an ancient website built in 1999 and hence I have a new template. with new features from "blogger" make use of the comments section and the new Polls ! hope you guys like the new design.