Portal landscape and Visual Composer

[Former Member]

hi there!

I installed EP 6.0 SP2 patch 4 and visual composer and I want to create a model inside the composer based on a R/3 BAPI.

I added a R/3 system as a dedicated applications server inside the portal but for some reason the R/3 system does not show up inside the composer, and the field to search a systems is protected. The connection to the portal shows a green light.

What did i do wrong?

Bertil Rebergen

[Former Member]

Hello,

Could you tell me where do you configure an application server inside EP?

Thx,

mejj

[Former Member]

Hi,

Which version of Visual Composer are you using?

You may be having either of the following problems:

1. An alias was not defined for your system. VC only shows current available system aliases.

2. You're using MSXML4 SP2 on your server and connecting to the Portal from the client using a fully qualified domain which causes system list to return empty. Try using the machine name only when typing the Portal's address (like: http://machine:port with no domain). This problem will be fixed in a future patch.

Regards,

Yaniv.

[Former Member]

Hi Yaniv,

Thanks for the hint. I defined an alias for the system and yes i now can see the system inside the composer. But at the moment i want to search for a BAPI i get the following message.

Search returned an error

Failed to connect to backend system. Check your system definitions and user priveleges.

I checked my system definition on the portal. As far as i can see they look ok.

Can you give me a hint.

[Former Member]

Hi,

It seems that now you have a permission problem when connecting to the backend. In some cases you need to define user mapping to map the current Portal user to the correct backend user you have.

This is configured on the "User Management" part of the system editor in the Portal in which you need to specify how to logon to the backend system and whether or not to use user mapping (the mapping itself is configured in another location in the Portal: User Administration -> User Mapping).

Hope that solves it.

Best regards,

Yaniv.

[Former Member]

Hi Yaniv.

I changed the user management attribute 'usermappingfields'

of the R/3 system definition into 'user,admin'. After this i could see this R/3 system during user mapping and filled in my userid and password for the R/3 system.

Now the composer gives me the BAPI's on the system.

great.... and many thanks for helping!

Bertil

[Former Member]

Hi all,

i'm actually facing same problem in connecting backend system.

My portal user is currently mapped to the r/3 system and i can access to sap transaction through portal. but it doesn't work with visual composer. any clues?

visual composer 60 sp1

IIs 5.0

msxml 4.0 sp1

thanks in advance

Fabio

[Former Member]

ok, i fixed the problem

the sapfactory settings for sapjco weren't setted up, after setting connection expiration and other parameters it works fine

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[Former Member]

Yaniv,

Using the abbreviated portal url did not work for me. I had to back up to MSXML 4.0 prior to SP2. Do you have another potential work-around for 4.0 SP2?

Thanks,

Thomas

[Former Member]

Hi,

If you're using VC 6.0 the best solution will be to install Patch 1 and make sure that your server has at least SP3 of Windows 2000. This will eliminate the problem.

Regards,

Yaniv.

[Former Member]

Yes, I have installed VC 6.0 SP1, but am running VC on a workstation with XP. The portal I'm using is EP6 SP2 on unix. What do I need to do in this case?

Also, now that I'm using XML parser 4.0, I can get a list of transactions, but can not add one to the workspace. I get "Portal request failed (com/sap/mdi/ObjectFactory)". Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Thomas

[Former Member]

Hello,

Please see note: 765461 to resolve the MDI reference

problem.

Best Regards,

Ran

[Former Member]

Hi,

can you tell us where you've changed the sapjco settings and which parameters ?

[Former Member]

Andreas,

I haven't made any changes to the sapjco settings. Are there some requirements for VC to work?

Thanks,

Thomas

[Former Member]

Thomas,

i've got the information in this Forum that these changes might solve a problem regarding VC and the new EP Sneak Preview. Do you know where to change these settings ?

Andreas

[Former Member]

No, I see references to changes in the forum, but nothing specific. Can you point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

[Former Member]

Ran,

This worked.

Thank you!

[thomasstig_nielsen2]

We have problems using xml parser 4.0 sp2 and microsoft has removed sp1 from the download area.

Does anyone have xml parser 4.0 sp1? Even VC sp2 does not solve the problem...

Best regards

Thomas Stig

[thomasstig_nielsen2]

Problem solved.

Apparently both the portal and the server itself has to be restarted after installing vc sp2.