How to setup an easy login URL?

[Former Member]

Hello,

as standard, the user has to enter a rather complicated URL to access the login page of CRM web ui.

(e.g. crm.mycompany.com:8000/sap/bc/bsp/sap/crm_ui_start/default.htm)

That's something nobody can remember easily.

Of course, the user can bookmark the page, but I would like to know if it's possible to create a reconnect to that URL by just entering http://crm.mycompany.com

Regards,

Knud

[VishnAndr · Accepted solution]

Hi, Knud.

Inside SAP CRM system you can define an alias in tx. SICF for web-service crm_ui_start (let's say the alias name will be 'login'). Then the user will be able to access log in page with shorter path. E.g. instead of entering

crm.mycompany.com:8000/sap/bc/bsp/sap/crm_ui_start/default.htm

he will use

crm.mycompany.com:8000/login/default.htm.

Or use the suggestion given by Nuno Lopes above.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Do you have SAP note how to create this alias?

I searched through google, but wasn't able to find an approriate result.

Is it the webservice uif_logon perhaps?

[VishnAndr · Accepted solution]

About alias in SAP CRM.

Go to tx. SICF, enter crm_ui_start for Service Name and execute. Switch to External Aliases (button in header area). Then select host and press Create New External Alias. Enter alias name and switch to Trg Element tab. There select crm_ui_start. Save it.

By the way there is a standard alias crm_logon for the same purpose. Try to find it in SICF too.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Ok, I wanted to use 'login' as alias name and selected crm_ui_start as target.

Trying to save this alias gives me the error message:

Please valid path '/../..' for external alias

EDIT: never mind, I got it with '/login' (which didn't worked after the error message, I had to start a new one)

Edited by: Knud Schröder on Feb 27, 2012 2:16 PM

[Former Member]

Hello Knud,

At our system, our network team created an alias in our networking redirecting that alias(www.company.cor) to our crm adress. That way the users only have to write the short version and are redirect to the crm adress.

Hope i could help,

Best Regards,

Nuno Lopes

[Former Member]

Did they create the alias on the DNS server or on the machine itself?

Of course, I can put a (reverse)proxy between client and server and the proxy redirects port and URL, but I suppose it can be easier than this.

[Former Member]

I think they created on the DNS.

Best Regards

Nuno Lopes

[Former Member]

Unfortunately I have no idea where and how to create this redirect rule.