SAP Enterprise Portal: Integration of BOBJwith SAP Portal Posted by Vinod Patil Apr 5, 2013 What are the benefits of Portal Integration? We can integrate Business Intelligence (BI) content from Business Objects into the SAP NetWeaver Portal. With this integration, customers are able to mix BI content and other applications easily. They can also personalize delivery of content based on SAP user roles and groups. Having enterprise-wide access to relevant business information from a standard enterprise portal allows customers to make better-informed decisions. Consolidating the infrastructure for application and BI content delivery leads to reduced cost and time savings. In our assignment, we integrated Portal 7.3 SP 7 with BOBJ Version: 4.0 SP 4 Patch 3 using below steps. The steps are more or less similar for other portal versions. Use references section for other versions of portal & BOBJ. Steps: 1. Get the com.sap.businessobjects.iviews.par and com.sap.businessobjects.iviews.templates.epa files from below BOBJ BI server location: [BI4_INSTALL_PATH]/SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0/warfiles/portlet/iviews 2. Import EPA file to Portal as shown below. Wait till import gets completed successfully (avg. 1 minute) and then restart portal. Generated by Jive on 2014-10-08+02:00 1 businessobjects. Generated by Jive on 2014-10-08+02:00 2 .iviews.SAP Enterprise Portal: Integration of BOBJ with SAP Portal 3.sap.It's not possible to create an iView using the Business Objects Document List Template iview and the Enterprise Portal 7.par file and then migrate to EAR file. Follow instructions in SAP Note “1672422 . Prepare EAR file from EPA file.3” to correct com. and System Type Connector system is nothing but SAP system (most cases BW) used for SAP authentication of BOBJ. Logical System name. SAP Client. Generated by Jive on 2014-10-08+02:00 3 .SAP Enterprise Portal: Integration of BOBJ with SAP Portal 4. Server Port. Create System Object using new system template: SAP BusinessObjects System Template Update properties as mentioned below: System Name: SAP_BOBJ System Alias: SAP_BOBJ Property Category: SAP Business Objects Web Application Server URL: http://hostname:port/BOE Property Category: User Management Authentication Ticket Type: Logon Method: SAP Logon Ticket SAPLOGONTICKET Property Category: Connector Maintain the properties – Group. Deploy the EAR file to portal using NWDS. Contact your basis team for these details. Message Server. SAP System ID. 5. Update the Business Objects properties of iView as below- Generated by Jive on 2014-10-08+02:00 4 . 7. Connection test shall work fine for SAP_BOBJ system which we created in earlier step.SAP Enterprise Portal: Integration of BOBJ with SAP Portal 6. Create iView using SAP_BusinessObjects_Document_List template for BI launch pad. Make sure SSO is configured between Portal and SAP System mentioned in connector properties of System Object in last step. Generated by Jive on 2014-10-08+02:00 5 .SAP Enterprise Portal: Integration of BOBJ with SAP Portal Preview iView and you will directly get logged into BI launch pad. bobj.1+Integration+into+the+SAP+EP 4. I got these portal iview files under below path of tomcat webserver.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/Appendix+of+the+BOEXI3. V James on page 6 Sep 11.par com..templates.businessobjects.x portal to BI4 2.x#BI4-HowtocreateSAPBusinessObjectsDocumentListtemplateintoEP7. objects..sdn.sap.sap.iviews. portal.sdn.iviews.sap.0.. com.sap. http://wiki. SAP Note 1531960 . SAP Note 1687295 . below files will be available.0\warfiles\portlet\iviews At this location.businessobjects. integration Vamsi Krishna Srikanti in response to J.How to configure Single Sign On (SSO) on the SAP Netweaver 7. sap.Missing iView Template from SAP EP 3. <drive>:\SAP BusinessObjects\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/BI4+-+How+to+create+SAP+BusinessObjects+Document+List +template+into+EP+7.epa With these files the remaining process is almost same as Vinod explained.x10810 Views Tags: business. http://wiki.. We are done! References: 1.0. 2014 7:44 PM Hello James. this helps you. Our present running BO system is with 4.31 SP7 I would just like to know about few things. Should the below files be needed to download from the market place separately and put it under "[BI4_INSTALL_PATH]/SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.sdn.sap. Thank you for sharing the information. Generated by Jive on 2014-10-08+02:00 6 . 2014 4:57 PM Hello Vinod I also have the same issue of Vamsi.iviews.epa Also. 2014 11:06 AM Hello. Regards Jose Vamsi Krishna Srikanti Aug 14.com documentation / wiki.1 SP2 version and Portal is 7.iviews. I don't find "portlet" directory under "warfiles".0/warfiles/portlet/iviews" ? com.par com. Vamsi Krishna.businessobjects. I'm not actually looking for a step by step document. J.0\warfiles " we are using 4. but proper help. Should this be also created manually? I've searched for the documentation on these versions! but no luck... V James Sep 11.epa files.sap.com / sdn.businessobjects. tomcat webserver was installed on seperate host. Thanks.sap.sap.sap.templates. The "portlet" folder is not found under "\SAP BusinessObjects\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4. I hope.com forum link should be more fine for me.1 SP3 any idea how to generate that .SAP Enterprise Portal: Integration of BOBJ with SAP Portal In our environment. 1 infoview and new BI 4. my client wants to use both their existing XI 3.1 Launchpad iView. Vamsi Krishna. Probably if the business needs different sets of users to see 3. Sorry about not being of much help. Rajendrakumar Gaikwad Oct 23.1 and 4. Generated by Jive on 2014-10-08+02:00 7 . Thanks. Maksim Alyapyshev Jul 28. Regards Rajendra tilak mishra in response to GK SK on page 8 Oct 23. there isn't a readily available solution that I can think of. However. 2013 6:40 PM obviously there are technical restrictions in the built in solution to show both the 3. it can be done using single link thro' content delegation. 2014 2:57 PM Thank you for your blog! tilak mishra in response to GK SK on page 7 Nov 12. 2013 4:31 PM GK.1 system and there is no user who would wanna see both reports" So you have mentioned.1 infoview linked via an iView.1 and 4. Currently they have 3.1 system with the same link.1 Launchpad on the same Enterprise Portal. you could use single link thro' content delegation. Tilak GK SK in response to tilak mishra on page 7 Nov 7. Thanks. now i am thinking where to add this 4. Could you please help me to understand. We have this scenario "business needs different sets of users to see 3.1 system and there is no user who would wanna see both reports. 2013 8:06 AM Nice One! i would like you to list out what were the challenges faced and how they were resolved. 2013 12:13 AM Hi GK.SAP Enterprise Portal: Integration of BOBJ with SAP Portal Please suggest. unless you want to brainstorm with some custom development.1 and 4. We want all dashboards to be displayed at one place like Enterprise Portal. In fact we're doing it. Pennington on page 8 May 13. SAP_BW) pointing to different BO. I know. We have an older version of BOBJ and also BOBJ4. Kindly.1? What would you advise? Jan Thomas Nygaard Oct 10. suggest how this can be accomplished. where should we place the new BI 4. 2013 2:22 PM Bad form to answer my own questions.properties file of Apache. Generated by Jive on 2014-10-08+02:00 8 . 2013 7:45 PM its possible. 2013 4:14 PM Good that your issue is solved Thanks for the comments. both displaying their reports in the same portal. Vinod Yadav Vinod Patil in response to A.SAP Enterprise Portal: Integration of BOBJ with SAP Portal But from a good design thinking point of view. Has anyone tried to integrate a BOBJ report using this approach into portal on device / SAP Mobile Portal? I'm trying but it just keeps spinning in my safari browser on my iphone .0. I set it to false and then the SSO worked correctly. Pennington May 10.1 or 4.e can we have multiple system alias (like SAP_BOBJ. Vinod Kumar Yadav Aug 7.1 objects? The business think they shouldn't be confused by showing them multiple links like one for 3. Thanks. and blog was helpful.maybe issue with safari support for BOBJ. BI systems? In our scenario. We are on BOBJ 4 SP6 and SAP NW Portal 7. just create different system objects for each of these systems and configure the appropriate iViews. we have two BI. BO landscapes for two sub groups of a company and different dashboards are being developed in two BO landscapes. 2013 11:27 AM Hi.3 SP9 Br Jan GK SK in response to Vinod Kumar Yadav on page 8 Aug 8.enabled = true was set in the global. but my issue with getting prompted for a user was because vintela. A. 2013 12:20 PM Hi Vinod Can we connect more than one BOBJ systems to single Enterpise Portal i. You can then have all these reports displayed in one single portal. very nice blog. Generated by Jive on 2014-10-08+02:00 9 . that it logs you in with SSO automatically? When I have followed your instructions. 5 stars. The Connector tests ok. Jan Thomas Nygaard Apr 29. 2013 9:16 AM Nicely structured and detailed blog thank you. I get the BI launchpad launched. good job.SAP Enterprise Portal: Integration of BOBJ with SAP Portal Thanks Vinod. is it pre-requisite that if you go from a browser to the http://server:port/BOE/BI directly. I don't see how the portal is doing SSO with the BI Launchpad itself? Any ideas what could be wrong? Or do I need to also enable AD SSO within BObj ? (I can't actually do that because I am not allowed the necessary trust relationships between user and server domains) Thanks Andy. Pennington May 10. 2013 12:43 PM One question . Lee Lewis Apr 8. Andy. However. so the SSO between portal and BW Backend is fine.I think because I do not have AD SSO enabled in Bobj BI. Lee Andy Silvey Apr 5.e. but it still prompts for the SAP BW user and password .is it a pre-requisite that there be AD SSO enabled between the browser and the Bobj before this will work? i. 2013 10:40 AM Hi Vinod. great blog! A. 2013 5:56 PM Vinod Excellent.