Creating a Role in SAP EP prior to 7.3

This post discusses about how to create a role in SAP EP prior 7.3

A portal role can organize and display the content that is being displayed to the end user.

To create a new portal role



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 > Role.

 
 Following screen will be displayed.

 Enter the required details.



Name: name of the Role. A display name that appears in the Portal Content Catalog ( Spaces are accepted as a character ).

ID: ID of the Role, 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 Finish.

Role will be created in your folder.


The property Entry Point in role which should be enabled, otherwise the role will not be visible when assigned to any user/ group.

For editing the properties of role.
Right click on the role created and select the as shown below.
open > properties.

Select Navigation in the Property Category list box of the Property Editor.

Set the Entry Point property to Yes.

 

5. Click Save  and Close .
 
That's it, you have learned how to create a Role in SAP EP prior 7.3.