How to create a URL IView in SAP EP

This post discusses about, How to create a URL IView in SAP EP Portal.
Here in this post i will create a URL IView for www.google.com
We create URL iview when we want to integrate a web-based application in to portal.


Prerequsites:

You should have Portal Credentials.
You should have content Admin Role assigned to your ID.

Procedure:

 Logon to portal with the following URL

http://<hostname>.<domain name>:<port number>/irj/portal

Note:
The above URL is also called as FQDN (fully qualified domain name) of Portal.
SSO ( Single sign on ) works only on FQDN.


Go to > Content Administration  > Portal Content Management > Portal Content

First you have to create a folder in which you want to create this IView.

For how to create a folder please go through the following link.
How To Create a Folder in SAP EP



After creating  the folder.

Right click on the folder created and select New > IView > IView from template.

Iview creation wizard will be open as shown follow.

Select the URL IView and click on Next.

 Enter the required details.

Name: name of the IVIEW ( Spaces are accepted as a character )

ID: ID of the IVIEW, ID will be unique. ( Spaces or not accepted here, Mostly '_' (Underscore) is used to differentiate two words ).

ID Prefix : com.company. ( company name will be your clients company name, this helps in distinguishing the standard and the custom ones ).

Description: give some description about it.

Click on NEXT.

Enetr the URL of the web application in our case it is www.google.com.
click on Finish.

 Now you can view the IView created in the Folder.

 Now to test the IView, Right click on the IView and Preview.

Note:

If you are getting any error after completing these step.
the the reason clould be the following.


Most companies set up a proxy server in order to allow/control/restrict connections from the portal server to the outside world.

In order to find out how to configure the portal server to use a proxy server have a look into the SAP Library.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/33/8abf9e0ce011d7b84900047582c9f7/frameset.htm

There you will find detailed instructions how to set things up.


That its it, Now you came to know how to create a URL IView.
Thank you.


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How to Create System Object in the Portal for Connecting to SAP Backend Systems.