Portal as external and internal Portal

[Former Member]

Hi,

is it possible to use a NetWeaver Portal as external and internal Portal.

For example with the external portal i just provide some custom developed Portal Components for Navigation and so on. Like a normal Webpage.

Maybe provide some Information from KM and use the Usermangament for accesing specific Information and services.. like news, forums, webmail whatever.

But when i'm on the Intranet i want, that i can access the Portal the normal way. And build heavy WebDynpro iViews for example with full Java script support.

And i want to use for both the same User.

So that the employee can access the portal over the internet with his user for some "light" services. And as well with the same User from the intranet for "heavy" services.

Is that possible? and how much custom development is necessary to build a webpage with the Portal. With normal stuff like Information pages and newssystem ?

Regards,

Robin

[carsten_buechert]

Hi Robin,

yes, it is possible to have external and internal portal hosted and managed by one single netweaver installation.

If you want to, you have to enable "External Facing Portal" (EFP). You'll find a lot info on this topic searching on sdn and sap library. At the end, it means creating some new portal desktop/framework/navigation components. You can use existing ones (light framework page) or develop them on your own. Therefor you can use JSPs/TagLibs. There are some good Blogs on this topic here in SDN.

To have one and the same user seperated depending on how he accesses the portal, you will need some kind of "switch". This switch can be implemented by a portal display rule. Display rules switch desktops depending on users name, group, role or (tatahhh!!) url alias. So you may establish an internal (or different) external url alias to access the portal.

<a href="http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/4b/29cf122f414721964269e1b675d62c/frameset.htm">Check this for more information!</a>

HTH,

Carsten