Personalizing Your Portal

Purpose

SAP Enterprise Portal personalization features enable you to focus exclusively on data relevant to your daily decision-making processes. You can personalize your portal in various ways, from determining which available content you display, to how and where you display it.

Process Flow

The following is a brief overview of the personalization options of the portal. Complete information is found in End User Guide.

Page Preferences

To set your page preferences, select the portal page you want to customize, click the Options icon in the page title bar, and select Personalizefrom the drop-down menu. The Personalize Page opens in a new window, displaying the layout and content of the selected page.

Interface

In the Personalize Page environment, the tree structure of the navigation panel displays the following two nodes:

· Personalized Page: This node lists the iViews that are presently part of the page, including iViews that have been set as hidden. You can display a hidden iView by right-clicking it and choosing Add iView to Page.

· Portal Content: The second node opens to display all the content assigned to you, allowing you to add other iViews and pages to the present page.

Options

You can perform the following to personalize your page:

· Add/Remove Content. Your portal content administrator defines the iViews to which you have access. The Portal Catalog displays all the content that is available to you. Right-click an iView you want to display in the page and choose Add iView to Page. After saving, you can see the added iView in the Personalized Page area of the navigation panel and in the content area.

¡ Additional Content. A portal administrator can obtain more iViews from iViewStudio, which then can be assigned to you.

· Arrange Content. You can select a different layout, if more are available, as well as rearrange the content displayed in the page.

After making changes to a page, and saving, it is important to refresh your portal in order to view the changes.

See SAP Enterprise Portal End User Guide ® Personalizing Portal Pages for specific information about personalizing pages.

Portal Preferences

To customize your portal preferences, click Personalize in the portal masthead. This action opens a separate window that displays the Detailed Navigation iView containing the entire list of customizable portal elements, and the personalize page of the first item on the list.

The list below details your options when customizing your portal.

See SAP Enterprise Portal End User Guide ® Personalizing Your Portal for more detailed descriptions of the options.

See SAP Enterprise Portal End User Guide ® Setting Portal Preferences for specific information about the personalization interfaces of all the following items.

· Portal Theme. Change the look and feel of the portal by selecting a theme from the portal's theme library.

From the Set Portal Theme drop-down list, choose the theme you want.

· Portal Language. You can change the language in which portal UI strings appear.

From the Set Portal Language drop-down list, choose the language in which you want to work.

As an administrator you can also determine the set of languages available in a specific portal. For information see Customizing the Set of Available Languages.

· User Mapping. You can set User Mapping to enable Single Sign-On. This permits the portal to use your portal logon credentials to access various systems that require different logon credentials.

In the Logon Data for dialog, select a system, and enter a user and password with which you want to connect.

· User Mapping (Remote Content). Allows you to provide logon information for iViews that deliver content from a remote content provider.

This option is relevant only if your organization has set up a global portal environment with syndicated content.

· User Password. You can change your logon password.

In the User Password dialog, enter your old password. Then enter and confirm a new password, and choose Save ® Close.

· User Profile. You can update the user profile you created when you first registered. For information see Logging On to / Off the Portal.

In the Modify My Profile dialog, update or add any necessary information.

· WorkProtect Mode. You can protect unsaved data by setting a page flag that causes new objects to open in new windows during navigation.

In the Option for Handling Unsaved Data During Navigation page, select your preference for handling unsaved data.