FPN - Saving BI Links (KM Bookmarks) to the Consumer Portal Favorites

[sap_cohort]

Hi, I'm posting this message again in hopes that either a mentor, SAP person, or Portal Expert can help. I have received several emails from people looking to do the same thing I am. The problem seems like a major integration gap between Portals and BI.

We use a Federated Portal Network where the Enterprise Portal (EP) is the Consumer Portal and the BI

Portal (BP) is the Producer Portal. BI Report Users access BI Reports from the Enterprise Portal through Remote Role Assignment.

BI Report "Save As" functionality allows you to save a "KM Bookmark" to the BI Portal Favorites. I am specifically looking to save a "KM Bookmark" to the Enterprise Portal(Consumer) Favorites and NOT the BI Portal(Producer). This only makes sense since our users only have access to the Enterprise Portal.

Our users are accessing their BI Reports from the Enterprise Portal and the users would like to save a link (KM Bookmark) to their Enterprise Portal Favorites. Currently, it looks like the "Save As" Functionality for saving "KM Bookmarks" is only allowing (Pointing) us to save the KM bookmarks to our BI Portal.

1. In an FPN Environment can we save a "KM Bookmark" Link to a BI Report into the Enterprise (Consumer) Portal Favorites?

2. If we are in a FPN Environment and users cannot save KM Bookmarks to Enterprise Portal Favorites and can only put "KM Bookmarks" in the BI Portal then how are users to access their links from the Enterprise Portal Environment?

3. Just a note. I think these saved links are called KM Bookmarks. You can see this from the BI Report "Save As" dialog. If you do a search through SAP Documentatiion you do not see a single reference to "KM Bookmark".

4. I have found OSS Note1149597, but I do not believe this addresses this exact issue

If anyone can provide some valuable insight into this Portal and BI Integration it would be greatly appreciated!

Thank You,

Thanks for any help you can provide.

[Former Member]

Has anyone seen any new information on this? The described behavior makes the BI query "save" function completely useless in the context of an FPN consumer portal.

Note [1149597|https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1149597] is very little help as near as I can tell. We tested the "fix" in a DEV environment, and while it technically "resolves" the problem with where the favorites get saved, we end up with all of our BI content actually being "published" to the consumer by the BEx tools. This sort of defeats the purpose of implementing an FPN in the first place, even if the requests are redirected back to the producer by the recommended BEx iView mods.

We have implemented a work-around by creating a RDL in our consumer portal to the producer portal's standard "Portal Favorites" iView. However, we're not happy with this solution as we end up with multiple "favorites" areas in our central consumer portal (one for remote BI content and another for "local" favorites). We also don't want to maintain the favorties that get saved to the producer portal.

[Former Member]

Hi Deve,

Could you pls tell me how you have created RDL in consumer portal to the producer portal's standard "Portal Favorites" iView.

I was trying to create the Remote Delta link iView by following the SAP Note 1149597 but iam unable to.

[Former Member]

Hello All

Did you find a way to add producer favorites in consumer?

I have added the RDL of producer favorites iview in the default framework page of consumer, below the consumer's favorites. Working fine.

regards,

Isvarya

[Former Member]

Yes like you said the only way i know of is to add the Producer favorites (RDL) to the consumer desktop inner page.

Only con is you end up with a Portal favorite and a favorite for BI reports.

[sap_cohort]

No response

[thomas_vanhaaren]

Hi Kenneth,

It's a while ago but did you find a solution for this issue?

If so can you share this with me. When you have a solution I can repost the question under my own user and award the points to your answer.

Regards,

Thomas

[sap_cohort]

I did not find a solution for this and I have moved to a different client.

Definately and oversight on SAP..

If you do find a solution please update this thread for all...

Thanks!

[Former Member]

Hi,

did you get any solution for this? Any inputs are highly appreciated.

Regards,

Sreeram

[sap_cohort]

Unfortunately I haven't found a solution and this is not a small issue when this is run into. And I've seen more inquiries into this.

This looks like a big oversight on SAP. I don't know how they expect people to use FPN when you can't save favorites from the producer portals that are being accessed through Consumer Portal.

This would really be a thing of beauty if the functionality worked! It would have made me think that they really thought this FPN thing through.

The last client I was at could not believe that this was not possible. It was basically the only functionality they wanted to get their hands on. I am at another client and I can see the same problem coming down the road as they mature in their Portal Environment.

Try posting this question again under a different "Portal" group and ask for mentor or SAP Support with this. Feel free to repost my verbage if you feel it's clear enough.

Good Luck.