Execution of POWL Queries through ECC EHP5

[Former Member]

Hello,

I am an SAP BW Consultant, new to the Power list concept. I would like to have information on the following stuff related to POWL queries:

1) In POWL_QUERY transaction, i got the list of all the available POWL Queries as per EHP5. Please let me know if there is any possibility of executing these queries directly from ECC, without being re-directed to Portal or NWDS? This is because we don't have Portal or NWDS in our current landscape.

2) I have seen that POWL queries are generally the InfoSet queries. This gives me an option of leveraging POWL queries by executing directly as InfoSet queries from SQ01. But I found some POWL queries like "/KYK/OP_FI_VENDOR_ITEMS_ALL" which are not available in SQ01. How can I execute these queries from ECC? What needs to be done to make them available as normal InfoSet queries in SQ01? I have seen an option of registering InfoSet query as a POWL query, but here i want something just opposite.

Would appreciate immediate response.

Thanks.

Regards,

Prateek

[thomas_jung]

1. POWL queries are WDA applications. Therefore they can be ran by adding them to the user's role or even directly in the Web Browser if they know the URL. There is absolutely no connection to the NetWeaver Developer Studio at all and they can't be edited there anyway since they are ABAP based. Now POWLs can often contain Portal API based navigation, however. This is why we do make the general recommendation that you should run POWLs within the NetWeaver Business Client or the NetWeaver Portal. Otherwise the navigation from the POWL to the detailed transaction might not work.

2. These are probably feeder class based POWLs. There would be no options to convert these back into InfoSet Queries. I believe you are confusing two subjects here. The purpose of POWL isn't to enable InfoSet queries. Infoset Queries are just one of several possible sources of creating POWLs.

[Former Member]

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for the reply.

I got your second point, understand that POWL queries and InfoSet queries are two different concepts. Yes, I figured out that the non-Infoset query based POWL queries use a different feeder class.

Regarding first point, Could you please help me with the tcode from where I can directly execute POWL queries (specially the non-Infoset ones) in ECC? Something from where it executes it on the web browser.

Regards

Prateek

[thomas_jung]

There is no TCode specific to POWL. There is a generic tcode for any Web Dynpro ABAP application, however. Just create a parameter transaction on top of SAP Standard transaction WDYID. In the parameters of this transaction code you can specify the WD Application and configuration id. Really though you should add POWLs to your role - either in PFCG or the Portal Role.

[Former Member]

Hi Thomas, have you had the WDYID-option working? The POWL-framework also needs an APPLID... and that's not available as parameter for WDYID. So I'm wondering how you did it.

Kind regards, Niels