Getting Started

Start here to understand how to implement the SAP portal.

The portal offers a single point of access to SAP and non-SAP information sources, enterprise applications, information repositories, databases and services in and outside your organization - all integrated into a single user experience. It provides you the tools to manage this knowledge, to analyze and interrelate it, and to share and collaborate on the basis of it.

For portal concepts and overview, see the introduction of the Portal Documentation.

 Portal Development

For EP development, you can start by accessing the following:

• Portal Developer Guide (2004)
• Portal Developer Guide (2004s)
• Portal e-Learning sessions

 Web Dynpro

Web Dynpro is a development environment for building user interfaces. Web Dynpro applications can be integrated and displayed in the portal. For more information, see the following:

• Portal Integration of Web Dynpro Applications (2004)
• Web Dynpro Applications for the Portal (2004s)
• For general information developing Web Dynpro Applications, see the Web Dynpro page in SDN.

 Useful Articles/Blogs

• Beginner's Blog Series (Umair Salam)
• Creating a Sample Portal project

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  Getting started - some 7.0 content from YouTube — I thought I'd upload to YouTube a couple of videos of some introductory type tasks with the SAP NetWeaver Portal.

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  Delete - old content - Creating iViews — iViews are the fundamental building blocks for SAP NetWeaver Portal content. All the objects that will appear to the portal user will be iViews. SAP provides numerous iView templates and new templates can be constructed by customers. Here are some pages that discuss different types of iViews and how to create them.