Changes being made in the .jsp masthead does not reflect in SAP portal

[Former Member]

Hi experts,

I am trying to increase our portal's idle time by modifying the com.sap.porta.navigation.masthead war file.I was able to deploy the new war file using SAP Netweaver but the changes I made were not being reflected in the portal.

Can anybody help?

[dror_last · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Changing the original masthead application is not the correct approch for changes as any deploy of a Patch or SP provided by SAP will override your changes.

Please follow the following document to crete your own application and replace the masthead iView

with your custom one.

Best Regards,

Dror.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Dror,

Thanks for the response.

The link you showed me talks about changes in the masthead iView. Do I still need to follow step number 8?

"You can locate the deployed custom masthead in content administration/portal content management/portal application. Copy and paste the iview in to portal content to create masthead iview. Then you can add the new masthead iview into framework page."

I was only able to do until step 7. I did not know about the 8th step before.

The only change I made was in this line of code:

var timeout_h = customTimeoutHandler(14,15);

I did not make any changes to the rest of the iView. In line with this, is the 8th step still required? Or is it enough to simply just deploy the newmasthead.war I have created?

[dror_last · Accepted solution]

Hi John,

Though your change is minor if you do it on the original application it will not be upgrade safe and

after deployment of EP-RUNTIME SCA that might be done to apply different notes either as Patches for the existing SP or in applying a newer SP you will lose those changes.

Therefore any customized change even if minor should be done by creating your own masthead.

Just creating your custom masthead application and deploying it will not have any effect.

You should replace the original masthead iView in the Framework page with one created from your application and therefore continue with step 8.

Best Regards,

Dror.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Dror,

Thanks again for the assist.

Do you know how to replace the original masthead iView? The ones I saw online pointed me on where to go for the configuration of the ajax framework page but when I navigated there I saw no way of replacing the original masthead.

[dror_last · Accepted solution]

Hi John,

You should use the Page Editor in order to remove and add iViews.

Please refer to the following documentation for the different Framework Pages provided by SAP

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw73/helpdata/en/48/1fee2f80093184e10000000a42189b/content.htm?frameset=...

It describes the location of each Framework page in the Content Administration in which you can edit them.

Best Regards,

Dror.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the help, Dror! I was able to successfully modify the masthead.