ITS and publishing

[Former Member]

Hi Guys...have some simple questions regarding information flow which is confusing me royally.I know that ITS links R/3 appln server and the web server.

1.]When we talk of publishing the services in EBP--where are the services getting published??In ITS??

2.]Who provides the URL for the web gui--SAP(when we buy the license)?When we publish the services,do they get transferred to this location(url)...for the users to use??

3.]The catalog application(say,requisite bugs eye and e-merge) resides on a completely different server.Now,when the user clicks 'shop',is it connecting the user to the catalog server..to select the goods/services?

4.]When a Shopping Cart is created and saved in bugs eye,does it transfer the cart to web gui. And then from web gui to ITS and from ITS to the application server?I am totally confused.

Can somebody simplify the above flow in terms of ITS,web servers and Shopping Cart,please??It is maddening me.

Thanks in advance

Sam

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Sam,

ITS is a web application server that allows you to present SAP information on the Web.

Depending on the version 2 development modes are possible:

- Transactional IAC (all versions) presents an ABAP transaction on the web, each ABAP screen has a corresponding template on ITS

- Flow Logic IAC (not supported by integrated ITS 6.40) allows you to manage both presentation and flow logic on ITS, data are accessed in the SAP system (EBP , R/3, ...) through RFC function calls

for your questions :

1- On standalone ITS the services are published on ITS server: mimes on the Wgate, templates and flow files on Agate

On integrated ITS the files are published in the database

2- The URL for the web gui is:

http://<i>yourserverhostname</i>/scripts/wgate/webgui/!

for standalone ITS

http://<i>yourserverhostname</i>/sap/bc/gui/sap/its/webgui

for integrated ITS

3- Yes

4- It transfers the catalog selection to EBP ITS transaction by posting an HTML form to ITS server (through user IE) using OCI norm

Hoppe it helps.

Vadim.