More blog posts in SAP NetWeaver PortalWhere is place located?
    1 2 3 … 17 Previous Next

    SAP NetWeaver Portal

    254 Posts

    Hi All,

     

    Here are the exit codes in JAVA and it's reason. Also for some of the return code you can refer to the snote mentioned with the exit code:

     

    #Common exitcodes:

     

    0    =Normal exit.

    11  =Cannot initialize xml parser (Service Manager) or error reading properties (likeyinst tool).

    666=Out of memory.

     

    #Engine exitcodes:


    1        =Forced shutdown.

    888    =Engine shutdown cannot finish for “haltTimeout” the VM is halted with this exit code.

    999    =Error occurs during AS Java shutdown.

    -1501 =Framework error.

    -333   =Missed broadcast due to network problems (MSLib).

    333    =Missed broadcast due to network problems (MSLib).

    -334  =Error getting confirmation during reconnectng. (MSLib).

    334   =Error getting confirmation during reconnecting. (MSLib).

    -335  =Timeout reconnecting (MSLib).

    335   =Timeout reconnecting (MSLib).

    -336 =No notification from Message Server (MSLib).

    336  =No notification from Message Server (MSLib).

    -337 =Exiting listener loop - restart the node (MSLib).

    337  =Exiting listener loop - restart the node (MSLib).

    -338 =Message is invalid - restart the node (MSLib).

    338  =Message is invalid - restart the node (MSLib).

    -339 =Client is not authorized to access the Message Server - restart the node (MSLib).

    339  =Client is not authorized to access the Message Server - restart the node (MSLib).

     

    -11111  =License expired (jlaunch will not restart the process).

    -11112  =Shutdown command (jlaunch will not restart the process).

    -11113  =Core service start fails when engine is starting or additional service starts fail and "HaltOnAdditionalServiceFailure=true" (Service Manager).

    -11114  =Enqueue Server was restarted without restarting the AS Java. This could lead to data inconsistencies and requires a restart of the entire system (Locking Manager).

    11114  =Enqueue Server was restarted without restarting the AS Java. This could lead to data inconsistencies and requires a restart of the entire system (Locking Manager).

    -11116 =Cycle detected in the class loader references (Service Manager).

    11115 =Services load timeout expired and “haltOnServiceTimeout=true” (Service Manager).

     

    #Service Manager exit codes for version > 7.1 AP7.

     

    2150=Core service start fails on initial startup.

    2151=Additional service fails to start on initial startup and property ‘HaltOnAdditionalServiceFailure’ is true.

    2152=Services startup timeout expires; try to increase services load timeout value ‘LoadTimeout’ property.

    -2100=Cycle detected in the class loader references.

    -2101=Missing manager; check kernel.properties

    -2102=Cannot read component filters; check filters.txt.

    -2103=Component filters are empty; check filters.txt.

    -2104=Cycle detected in the hard reference dependences.

    -2105=Core components missing or not loaded.

     

    #The offline tools exit codes are as follows (last updated on 13-11-2006):

     

    #1 - insufficient or invalid arguments – this exit code should be left for wrong arguments only.

    2=Error while loading subsequent classes.

    3=Unsupported VM on this platform.

    10=Cannot initialize Configuration Manager or missing property file (offline deploy tool) or license already installed (likeyinst tool).

    12=Error installing license (likeyinst tool).

    13=Error connecting to external system (likeyinst tool).

    64=Error reading bootstrap properties (bootstrap).

    65=Error modifying DB (bootstrap).

    66=Unknown startup mode or action (bootstrap).

     

    #Bootstrap exitcodes:

     

    66=Bootstrap exits with error code 66 in dev_bootstrap* log file.

    500=Unknown exception. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    501=Properties file found, but cannot be read. Check the file permissions. For more information, see SAP Note 915825.

    502=Incorrect property value. For more information about the valid values, see SAP Note 915825.

    503=Error while initializing the database connection. Check if the database is running. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

     

    504=Custom parameters mappings not found in the database. Possible reason: incorrect or inconsistent database content. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    505=Problem accessing the database. Make sure the database is running and check the database connection details. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    506=Cannot access the synchronization root. Possible reason: incorrect or inconsistent database content. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    507=Cannot access the synchronization root. Possible reason: incorrect or inconsistent database content. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    508=Cannot access the version information in the database. Possible reason: incorrect or inconsistent database content. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    509=Cannot access the version information in the database. Possible reason: incorrect or inconsistent database content. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    510=Inconsistent bit length configuration. The JVM reports different bit length than the bit length of the Startup Framework. Check the installation consistency. For more information, see SAP Note 915825.

    511=Problem accessing the instance meta data. Check the database settings. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    512=Problem accessing the instance meta data. Check the database settings. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    513=Problem accessing the instance meta data. Check the database settings. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    514=Problem accessing the file system entry j2ee/os_libs. Check the file system permissions. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    515=Cannot find information about the native files. Possible reason: incorrect or inconsistent database content. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    516=Cannot find information about the native files. Possible reason: incorrect or inconsistent database content. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    517=Error while reading index information from the database. Possible reason: incorrect or inconsistent database content. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    518=Error while reading index information from the database. Possible reason: incorrect or inconsistent database content. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    519=Error while reading index information from the database. Possible reason: incorrect or inconsistent database content. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    520=Error while reading index information from the database. Possible reason: incorrect or inconsistent database content. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    521=Error while reading index information from the database. Possible reason: incorrect or inconsistent database content. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    522=Cannot access the file system index file. Check the file system permissions. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    523=Cannot access the file system index file. Check the file system permissions. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    524=Problem accessing the cluster file system global version. Possible reason: incorrect or inconsistent database content. Check the Deploy Controller version. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    525=Problem accessing the cluster file system global version. Possible reason: incorrect or inconsistent database content. Check the Deploy Controller version. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    526=Problem accessing the cluster file system global version. Possible reason: incorrect or inconsistent database content. Check the Deploy Controller version. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    527=Problem accessing the versions repository of the cluster file system. Possible reason: incorrect or inconsistent database content. Check the Deploy Controller version. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    528=Problem accessing the versions repository of the cluster file system. Possible reason: incorrect or inconsistent database content. Check the Deploy Controller version. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    529=Problem accessing the meta data of the cluster file system. Check the database state and the Deploy Controller component version. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    530=Problem accessing the meta data of the cluster file system. Check the database state and the Deploy Controller component version. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    531=Index not found in the file system. Check the file system consistency. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    532=Index not found in the database. Check the database consistency and the version of the OfflineDeploy component. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    533=Error while synchronizing the files in j2ee/cluster/bootstrap. Check the file system permissions. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    534=Error while synchronizing the files in j2ee/cluster/bootstrap. Check the file system permissions. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    535=Error while synchronizing the files in j2ee/cluster/bootstrap. Check the file system permissions. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    536=Error while synchronizing the files in j2ee/cluster/bootstrap. Check the file system permissions. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    537=Error while synchronizing the files in j2ee/oslibs. Check the file system permissions. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    538=Error while updating the j2ee/cluster/instance.properties file. Check the file system permissions. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    539=Error while synchronizing the server files in j2ee/cluster/server<n>/dtd. Check the file system permissions. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    540=Error while synchronizing the server files in j2ee/cluster/server<n>. Check the file system permissions. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    541=Index not found in the file system. Check the file system consistency. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    542=Index not found in the database. Check the database consistency and the version of the OfflineDeploy component. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    543=Error while synchronizing the AS Java binaries. Check the file system permissions. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    544=Error while writing the j2ee/cluster/version.bin file. Check the file system permissions. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    545=Current VM type is not supported according to the specified compatibility list. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    546=Problem reading kernel properties from the DB. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    547=Problem writing cluster/kernelProperties.bin file. Check the file system permissions. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    548=Problem reading the managers' properties. Check the database consistency. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    549=Problem reading the managers' properties. Check the database consistency. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    550=Problem reading the services' properties. Check the database consistency. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    551=Problem reading the services' properties. Check the database consistency. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    552=Problem writing cluster/servicesProperties.bin or or cluster/kernelProperties.bin file. Check the file system permissions. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    553=Native file not found in the DB, but present in the descriptor. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    554=Invalid value for the AS Java startup mode. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

    555=Invalid value for the AS Java startup action. For more information, check the bootstrap logs and see SAP Note 915825.

     

    Hpe it will help in resolveing the issue.


    Regards,

    Shyam Kumar

    Introduction

    For almost 10 years I am struggling with the portal theme editor. My expertise is building a userfriendly portal for endusers, integrating information with transactions and corporate styleguides. Developing custom frameworks and adjusting portal themes with the portal theme editor is a daily business and in my opinion a must have for every mid-large scale organisation. It was always hard to find the correct elements in the theme editor. Recent project I did a 7.3 implementation and new elements in the theme editor didn't work properly. Unzipping the theme, replacing images, changing properties files (this is NOT supported!) and searching for ur.designpart and ls.designpart for the correct classes is quite hard and a risky business. As an example:

     

    facilitair_home.png

    Homepage with KM content and shortcuts to tasks (Facility domain)

    personeel_landing.png

    Landing page with easy navigation.

    personeel_pw.png

    A webdynpro ABAP application in the same style.

     

    To accomplish this, F12 is my best friend (Debugger in browser).

     

     

    Invitation

    At SAP Teched Madrid last year I have been asked by Thomas Hensel to join a feedback session for the upcoming theme editor. Since I joined the Portal 7.3 beta program also, I said without any doubts I'd love to help.

     

    Two day workshop - New UI theme designer in SAP Netweaver scenarios

    So last week I joined the workshop. Thanks to Bertram Ganz and many, many die hard specialists from Walldorf we had a superb workshop of the new stand-alone theme editor for all technologies.

     

    We had handson sessions for theming in NWBC, ABAP/FPM, SAPUI5, Portal and cross theming. Also maintenance was presented.

    A lot of feedback has been given and priorities have been given from the participants. Maybe information will be posted in a later stage.

     

    Findings in general:

    + You can add your own html applications and preview them in the preview pane. On the righthand side you can change the properties in Quick (really easy), Expert (css classes - power users) and CSS mode (hardcore branding);

    + Theming is across different technologies in one tool;

    + LESS support;

    + Fast compilation and results - instead of waiting a couple of minutes in the current theme editor;

     

    For more information: http://help.sap.com/nw-uiaddon > UI-Addon 1.0 SP04 - release notes - section 3

     

    Everything is ofcourse subject to change, the tool is not released yet so keep an eye on it. If you use theming, this will be your next step into easier theming / branding.

    Portal pages and iViews placed in the navigation can be indexed and appear in the search results with their full PCD URL
    (e.g. /    irj/portal?NavigationTarget=ROLES://...).These URLs are not user friendly.

    If a QuickLink property exists on the object displayed in the search results, why not use it in the navigation target instead of that long url with all the unclear parameters?

     

    The feature was implemented as part of the Enterprise Portal Customer Connection Program. It is available in NetWeaver Enterprise Portal 7.3 SP8 and NetWeaver Enterprise Portal 7.31 SP4.

     

    To use the feature follow these steps:

    1. In the NetWeaver Administration, locate Application Modules.
    2. Find com.sap.portal.index.provider
    3. In the "Web Module details", choose SpiderIndexingService
    4. In the Portal Service Details, set the property enableQuickLinkInSearchResults to "true"
    5. Restart the service
    6. Reindex the portal

     

    Next time you search, you'll see the following:

    QuickLinkScreenShot.png

    The May edition of the Portal newsletter is focusing on the SAPPHIRE and ASUG event in Orlando from May 14-16, 2013.

     

    Event Recap: Impressions from SAPPHIRE / ASUG 2013
    In the second week of May 12 SAP Portal team members went to SAPPHIRE NOW and ASUG:

    • To give people an understanding of the SAP Portal Portfolio: SAP NetWeaver Portal on Premise, SAP HANA Cloud Portal and SAP HANA UI Services
    • To deliver 23 ASUG sessions and 5 SAPPHIRE demo theatre sessions
    • to be present at 4 different SAPPHIRE campuses (Cloud, HANA D&T, Mobile, Public Sector) and showcase the different product demos
    • to meet SAP mentors, customers and partners

     

    Read these 2 blog recaps from the first and second day from Portal Product Manager Aviad Rivlin reporting live from the event:

     

    Day 1 Recap

    Day 2 Recap

     

    Customer Presentations:

    Watch this movie showing a recording of a live SAPPHIRE presentation given by David Afra from PepsiCo. David is responsible for Portal implementation at PepsiCo and he explains how SAP Portal is used to enhance an optimal user experience and he demos their live system showing Mobile Portal and Mobile UWL.

     

    SAP Portal team at the Database and Technology Campus (from left to right: Nimrod Barak, Ram Alon, Ben Aflalo, Guy Bavly, Asi Messica, Amir Blich, Aviad Rivlin):

    sapphire_team.JPG

    Guy Bavly (left) showcasing the newly deployed SAP NetWeaver Portal 7.3 at Colgate :

    guy_sapphire.png

    New Customer Testimonials

     

    For SAPPHIRE NOW we could also present three new customer testimonials:

     

     

    News From SAP HANA Cloud Portal

     

    New Cloud Site Challenge 2013

    The SAP HANA Cloud Portal team is excited to launch a new challenge for 2013. We invite you to take part in our latest contest and build your own innovative site: Design and build your unique custom-branded site using a great variety of tools and open standards! It should offer an amazing user experience, rich content and social capabilities.

    So, what can be a good scenario to use? Business to Consumer (B2C) sites could be most appropriate: marketing and promotional campaign sites, events sites, digital marketing, e-commerce sites and more. More details in this blog by Ifat Shwartz.

     

    Summary of Cloud Portal Webinar: Creating Mobile Websites
    Read this blog which summarizes our webinar from May 23, 2013 and points you to the SAP HANA Cloud Portal material related to the webinar topic - creating mobile websites using SAP HANA Cloud Portal.

     

    Check out YouTube for new Cloud Portal Demos

    For SAPPHIRE NOW our team created about 70 new demos and screencams on SAP HANA Cloud Portal. Have a look at the YouTube playlist.

     

    Blogs from the Portal Community on SCN


    Show Role ID, Workset ID in editor by Roman Loshevsky: New functionality to configure role and workset editors were released with SAP NetWeaver Portal 7.3 SP 9.

     

    How to clear the SAP Portal cache by Tobias Hofmann.

     

    Offer to test: Minimize the business downtime of Portal updates to a couple of minutes by Martin Herrmann: When you have the need to minimize your business downtime of your portal to a minimum, the tool near-Zero Downtime Maintenance for SAP Portal (nZDM/portal) might be a perfect solution for you.

     

    Thanks for your valuable contributions!

    When you have the need to minimize your business downtime of your portal to a minimum the tool near-Zero Downtime Maintenance for SAP Portal  (nZDM/portal) might be a perfect solution for you.

    With help of the nZDM for portal the business downtime of nZDM is reduced to only some minutes. It easy to implement security related patches or SPs without impact on business packages or access to the Business Suite systems. In addition to implementing SPs it is possible to change Portal Content or KMC-configuration, patch JVM or implement updates on your OS.

     

     

    How does it work?

    The nZDM for portal procedure uses a clone concept. It is independent from the clone tool which will be used. The SAP Landscape Virtualization Management (LVM) 2.0 works with nZDM for portal in a process integrated way.

    Database changes on the productive system are recorded and replayed to the clone system. Thus the user can nearly work as usual while the clone is updated.
    The business downtime is reduced to a couple of minutes: it is a log off, log on.


    Supported Releases:
    SAP NetWeaver 7.0 including EHP 2, SP11 or higher
    SAP NetWeaver 7.3, SP7 or higher
    SAP NetWeaver 7.3 including EHP 1, SP2 or higher
    SAP NetWeaver 7.4, SP2 or higher

     

    In the last year it was offered as a project solution in combination with an AGS service for example. Based on experiences we made together with customers the tool is now on the way to be general available. It is planned to have it available for download in the SL Toolset with the next SP.

     

    In parallel to the internal validation we offer a beta shipment (customer validation) for customers who are interested to test it with direct standard development support.



    What is needed to test the beta of nZDM for portal?

    Send me an email or write a CSS message (BC-UPG-OCS-ZDM) and ideally already inform about landscape and planned timeline:
          Martin.Herrmann@sap.com

     

    Based on a Test and Evaluation Agreement (TEA) we will ship nZDM for portal on a short notice.

     

    If you are not planning to run a test in the next weeks but you are interested in nZDM for Portal and would like to get further info, please get in contact with me as well.

    New functionality to configure Role and Workset editors released

    with NW Portal 7.3 SP 9.

    By default, objects in the Role Editor and the Workset Editor are displayed using the object name.
    You can also configure the editors to display the atomic ID of each object, or to display a combination of both the object name and the object ID.
    Next views (role example) are the same for role and workset editors:
    Role by title:
    RoleTitle.png
    Role by id:
    RolebyID.png
    Role by id_title :
    RoleIDTitle.png
    Role by title_id :
    titleId.png

    How to configure:

    In SAP NetWeaver Administrator (http(s)://<server>:<port>/nwa), go to the Application Modules page.
    AppModules.png
    In the Module List area, select tc~pp~adm~wu~role_editor.
    In the Web Module Details area, select the Web Dynpro Properties tab.
    Select Components/com.sap.tc.pp.adm.wu.role_editor.roleeditor.RoleEditor/ViewMode, and in the Full Details area, set the view_mode property to one of the following values:
    • title    Displays the name of the object.
    • id       Displays the object ID.
    • id_title Displays the object in the following format: objectID (object name).
    • title_id Displays the object in the following format: object name (objectID)

    Settings.png

    Save your changes and restart the application.
    restartApp.png

    Hi everyone, do you want to find out the current and future capabilities of SAP NetWeaver Portal and & SAP NetWeaver Cloud portal?

    Attend the session by Thomas Hensel tomorrow.

    Register here

     

    Note: You will need a S-user id when registering.  If you do not have one obtain it here: https://service.sap.com/~sapidp/002006825000100141192000E/.  If you have forgotten your S-user id click here to reset your password: https://websmp130.sap-ag.de/sap(bD1lbiZjPTAwMQ==)/bc/bsp/spn/new_user_pass/userid_password_reset.htm

    Hi

    Just wanted to share my experience as end user for SAP Netweaver Portal 7.31.

    So after waiting for long time i got to get the hands on Portal 7.31. Was expecting a lot,had written a blog @ my expectations from 7.3 few months back.

     

    As a end user i noticed the following .

     

    1. First Menu is now non-rooted. we can change the First Menu also by drag and drop.

    2. Search button is working  by default.so i just type the service name, it displayes the matching services, select and go..thats good.

    3. In Place filters for UWL, Really Nice enahancement.

    4. Enhanced Webdynpro java applications. I noticed a tiny calculator in Tax Declartion and Claims app.

    5.Works on Chrome Browser, although Adobe forms do not work in Chrome.

    6.Nice Out of the Box (OOB) Login Page for Mobile Devices.

    7.Portal on Device : Fantastic Framework. although Webdynpro Java apps do not work on Portal on Device.Unless UWL works it is no good for approvers OOB.

    8.Now we can include a New Session Button in the  MastHead. Thats a cool Feature

    9.Portal Theme Studio.. This is really Nice.

    10.Enhanced Wiki,Forums and WPC features. although WPC is still primitive.

     

    As i write this, 7.4 is made GA. so let me see when can i get my hands on that ...

     

     

    Regards

    Rajendra

    Hello,

     

    As the SAPPHIRE event gets more and more momentum, the free time to write my daily blog is minimizing. So, this blog is going to be very short, but better a short one than nothing…

     

    Day #2 (Wednesday) was definitely the day where the mobile portal got more and more momentum with the peak at the afternoon theater presentation of PepsiCo presenting their SAP NetWeaver Portal solution and showcasing a Proof of Concept of the mobile portal based on their existing SAP NetWeaver Portal implementation featuring the latest mobile Universal Worklist offering.

     

    Together with the new mobile portal and “Fiori” solutions, customers can now mobilize their landscape easier than before leveraging Web technologies.

     

    All about the mobile portal…

     

     

    Cheers,

    Aviad

    On Monday May 27nd from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m CET, you are invited to join the next Portal tweetchat on “SAP Portal Upgrades.”

     

    This tweetchat is an activity meant to give a general overview of the different options and aspects to upgrades of SAP Portal.

     

    SAP NetWeaver 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 and analyze this knowledge, and to share and collaborate on the basis of it. 

     

    With its role-based content, and personalization features, the portal enables users—from employees and customers to partners and suppliers—to focus exclusively on data relevant to daily decision-making processes.

     

    SAP NetWeaver Portal is the Web UI for the newest generation of SAP enterprise applications, providing intuitive, Web-based access to HR, financial, customer relationship management, product lifecycle management, and other critical applications. As a unified interface to these applications, the portal helps each user quickly access the right resources and be as productive as possible.

     

    Highlights of SAP Portal Upgrades are

     

    - Upgrade to 7.3 release is beneficial with many enhancements introduced
    - Upgrade of existing system vs. new installation
    - Upgrade toolUpgrade of custom developments
    - Business package version compatibility
        
    For more information see this blog by Thomas Hensel.

     

    Our panel of core experts include:

     

    - Aviad Rivlin (@AviadRivlin)
    - Thomas Hensel (@ThHensel)
    - Alexandra Shapilov (@AlexShapilov)

    - Andrey Todorov (@AndreyTodorov)

    - Ivan Rangelov (@IvanRangelov2)
        
    The tweetchat will be moderated by Karen Golub using our Portal Twitter account @Portal_SAP. You can connect with the tweetchat moderator before the chat. Send for example some questions or your expectations already before the chat. You can start with this already now! Send the questions and statements directly to our SAP Portal Twitter channel @Portal_SAP.

     

    What is a TweetChat and How to Participate
    What’s a tweetchat? It is similar to a webinar in which the speakers, rather than talking, type out their thoughts in 140 characters or less. And during a tweetchat, rather than using a dial-in number, you follow along with your preferred Twitter app like Tweetdeck, Hootsuite or TweetChat.com. The key benefits of TweetChat.com is that it automatically adds the hashtag to the end of your tweets after you successfully sign in using your Twitter account.

     

    To participate in our tweetchat, simply log in to the Twitter client of your choice and submit all your questions and statements with the hashtag #SAPPortalchat included. In case you are not using this hashtag, we cannot see what you are tweeting. We’ll be monitoring the timeline live and responding through the accounts of our experts.

    See you on Twitter on May 27th! 

     

    This chat promises to promote a lively conversation about an interesting topic. Please join us on May 27th from 16:00-17:00 P.M. CET using the #SAPPortalchat hashtag. We are really looking forward to talking to you directly. So start thinking about your questions now. We hope to see you on May 27th live on Twitter!

    Hello,

     

    First day of SAPPHIRE is now over. So many people (I heard the number 20k visitors – WOW!), so many topics, every SAPPHIRE\TehcEd I am amazed again.

     

    So… for the portal team this was a very busy cloudy day. We first presented the SAP Cloud for Service solution which is built on top of SAP HANA Cloud Portal.

     

    The team has presented the rich and easy customization capabilities with cloud portal. Customers can change not only the themeing, but also the structure of the site and the aggregation of content from both SAP and non-SAP sources. Needless to say that mobile consumption is built in.

    In addition, we have presented other cool sites built on top of cloud portal for different scenarios as Public Sector, Higher Education and others.

     

    If you have any question about the cloud portal, feel free to contact: Amir Blich, Yariv Zur or Ifat Shwartz.

     

    Let’s see this second testimonial about the SAP HANA Cloud Portal by our great partner Intenzz:

     

     

    So… this was my short SAPPHIRE2013 day 1 summary. If you are onsite, don’t miss us at the Database and Technology booth (DT625) and Mobility booth (MO414).

     

    Aviad and Asi Messica

    Hello,

     

    This year, I will do my best to write down a short blog summarizing my personal ASUG \ SAPPHIRENOW conference highlights. As you can imagine, it will all be about the SAP Portal portfolio offering…

     

    So… today we unofficially kicked off the conference with a pre-conference seminar about Renovating and Refreshing the SAP UI’s with the latest User Productivity Tools, with ~20 customers in the room. We were discussing  the different challenges and solution SAP has to offer in the area of UI: SAP Portal (of course ), NetWeaver BusinessClient, SAP Screen Personas, Adobe Forms, FPM, SAPUI5, SAP App Designer*, SAP NetWeaver Gateway, and others…

     

    Header 1Header 3
    2.jpg2.jpg

     

     

    Thanks Yariv Zur for making this happen.

     

    During the coming few days, I encourage you to follow the twitter accounts of Aviad Rivlin, Amir Blich, Yariv Zur, Guy Bavly, Ohad Levy, Orna Kleinmann, Nimrod Barak, Yair Vidal, Asi Messica, Ram Alon and Ben Aflalo – we are all onsite at the SAPPHIRENOW conference looking to meet you onsite and collaborate virtually.


    Let the show begin... turn on your speakers, lay back and let's open the SAPPHIRE conference for the portal gurus with the first in a row of new SAP Portal videos:

     

     

    Comment below with questions\ thoughts\ideas, and I’ll do the best to answer as soon as I can. And… looking forward to meet you.

     

    Aviad

    Hello,

     

    Today I would like to share with you the availability of SAP NetWeaver Portal, enterprise workspaces 1.1, Service Pack 4.

    With this latest release of Enterprise Workspaces, we extend (even more) the mobile capabilities of the SAP NetWeaver Portal and Enterprise Workspaces.

     

    This new service pack provides enhanced and extended mobile and social capabilities for the SAP NetWeaver Portal, in four major areas:

    • Mobile Homepage – 16 new mobile homepage templates and multiple new mobile ready modules.
    • Mobile user interface for the SAP NetWeaver Portal Universal Worklist - an HTML5 based user interface for the existing Universal Worklist running on smartphones and tablets, while reusing the existing configuration of the Universal Worklist (SSO, UWL configuration, etc.)
    • Enterprise Feeds – new portal container aggregating different content sources into one harmonized feed. The enterprise feed aggregates one or more channels, consuming data from an external RSS feed, news items stored in the SAP Knowledge Management repository and\or Universal Worklist items. Customers and partners can extend the list of channels via public API’s and consume items from additional repositories. Enterprise feeds can be consumed on multiple devices - desktop and mobile devices. 
    • People Explorer is connecting people based on both enterprise data and personal information, it supports in creating professional networks, finding experts and discovering colleagues with shared interests. With Enterprise Workspaces Service Pack 4, multiple relationship types are supported (for example: "following", "member-of", etc.), end user can edit and update their own profile, and several additional enhancements.

     

     

    Check out this short video presenting the mobile consumption of the SAP NetWeaver Portal on tablet devices:

     

     

     

    To summarize:

    • Enterprise Workspaces 1.1 Service Pack 4 provides enhanced capabilities for quick and easy creation of mobile workspaces and mobile homepage.
    • It provides a mobile view for the SAP NetWeaver Portal Universal Worklist.
    • It provides 16 new mobile homepage templates and additional mobile ready modules for feed consumption, mobile application launching and mobile Universal Worklist.

     

    For further information, please review the detailed presentation and the release notes on help.sap.com.

     

    Finally, don't miss the live demos and face-to-face discussions at sapphirenow2013. If you are attending the sapphire_now_2103 / asug_365 conference in Orlando, you are welcome to e-mail me and meet in person.

     

    Aviad

     

    With the new gamification tools on SCN, don't forget to "like" this blog in case your find it useful...

    SCN gave a SAP certification voucher to the topic leaders 2010 - 2011. While the voucher came with an expiration date, with the help from SAP Education I was able to extend its validity to 2013. That was way beyond what I have imagined, so here is again a thank you to SAP Education in being gracious regarding the expiration date.

     

    Having a valid voucher is one part when taking an exam, the other part is being prepared to pass the exam. The exam I took is C_EP120_701, which translates into SAP Portal developer. Instead of now writing generic tips I`ll focus here on the specific exam I took.

     

    I know how to develop applications for the portal, and after screening the exam topics, it was clear that I know around 60% to 70% of the topics covered. As my knowledge is real life knowledge, it was clear to me that some SAP specific definitions I`ll have to learn or refresh. For instance, when developing a PAR I use NWDS and the wizards that come with it. That does not mean that I know the exact class needed for a JSPDynPage project.

     

    How did I pass?

     

    1. Choose exam and level

    I chose an exam I in a field I know something about: SAP Portal. There are two possible levels available by SAP Education for an exam: associate and professional. For SAP Portal developers, there is only the associate certification for Portal 7.01 available. Associate means that you have a fundamental understanding of the SAP solution: know the basics, the definitions and how to use the software as SAP wants you to.

     

    Short: SAP does not expect you to write a working portal application in the exam.

     

    2. Training material

    After reading the topics covered by the exam it was clear that some things I never or rarely had done before: like writing a portal service or accessing WDJ context via generic context API instead of using typed access. Hands on experience does not mean that you necessarily know everything. Instead of focusing only on the 40% missing, I thought: why not start from scratch and learn the full 100%?

     

    You can attend an official SAP training, perhaps you can get the course material when working for a partner or you use SAP Help. As I am almost all the time working for large SAP partners / SI, attending official training is unlikely. That leaves me with the course material in PDF form and SAP Help for learning how SAP defines portal development. I do have a very outdated PDF for EP150, but nothing for JA310. Which leaves me to use SAP Help for learning the WDJ definitions.

     

    While I believe that SAP Help is more than enough to learn the definitions, the content is not really meant for self-learning. The official PDFs come with a clear table of content, lessons and useful tips when explaining a section. SAP Help gives you the raw information: it is your task to extract what is part of the exam and what`s not. Using only SAP Helps means that you`ll spend more time for a topic. Moreover, you`ll have to create your own code examples. Depending on how you are used to learn, SAP Help is more complete, but the risk is high that you`ll end up learning actually too much: content that is not part of the exam.*

     

    3. Learn

    Yes, learn. Learn, learn, learn and learn. Then repeat. Learning is the only way to pass the exam. Again: learn, learn, and learn.

     

    Maybe it is not so easy. You have two options: learn to pass the exam or learn and create a library of examples and personal notes that will really help you later when coding applications? It depends on you if you want to study the material to pass or study to actually learn how to code applications for SAP Portal.

    The first case means that you go through the learning material and remember the definitions and usage patterns. The latter case means that you apply it to actual code and go through all the examples provided by SAP. I chose the latter option (of course). The difference is that I gained a repository of a dozen and more SAP Portal applications, including notes and can run and test them on my personal portal installation. My personal tip to anyone that wants to screen a SAP certified developer: check if they have a repository of code examples.

     

    4. Learn more

    Best way to learn is trying it out. In case you do not have a SAP Portal at hand at work or from your employer, download the SAP Portal trial here from SCN. The exam covers topics related to SAP Portal development, so don`t expect that your daily work assignments also cover 100% the exam. I developed over the years several portal applications, but portal services or going into the details of portal application personalization? Knowing the basics and casual SAP Help consultation for solving daily problems does not mean that you know everything about writing a service (interface, lifecycle, properties, etc). And as you can not (you can`t, right?) deploy a custom test service to the portal landscape of your client / employer, you need a personal SAP Portal to play around with.

    What`s to remember here: what you do as a portal developer in your day job most likely is NOT enough to pass the exam. Hardly you`ll develop WDJ, portal services & components, JCA, user administration, web services, VC, and so on at the same time. Even when you have developed in all of these technologies, changes are good that some time passed when you last used one. So even when you do portal development for a living, you won`t be an expert in each area covered by the exam.

     

    5. Prepare

    Prepare for the topics covered in the exam. That`s harder than it sounds, as the exam is for portal 7.01. When you work with 7.1, 7.2 or 7.3 you can apply the content, but sometimes you`ll see that the certification is for an old release: VC changed, the positioning of WDJ changed slightly and you do not use PARs anymore in 7.3. Even knowing that some answers are “wrong” for 7.3, they are still correct for 7.01. The problem here is that SAP Education does not offer an exam for 7.3. Looking back, maybe only two or three questions were outdated. The rest is still 100% valid. Talk about backward compatible ;-)

     

    6. Take your time

    If you use the PDFs, be prepared to go through more than 1500 pages. At least. Ok, some are TOC, empty pages, indices, but still, more than 1000 pages are waiting for you. Don`t expect to start on Monday and pass the exam next Friday. Especially when you do the learning beside your job. Real learning takes time. I did a fast run through of the content to get a quick overview and then took a deep dive on each topic that took between 1 to 2 weeks. As I have a job that can consume quite some time, I did not learn constantly. Sometimes there was a gap of several weeks (also explaining what took me so long to use the voucher).

     

    7. Take the test

    The test is 80 questions and SAP gives you 180 minutes. Questions are multiple choice and I did not have to code. Topics covered match exactly what SAP Education publishes at their site. No surprises. I did not have one question that made me flip a coin. The English used is not overly complex, it`s clearly written with non-native speakers in mind and the names used match what is used at SAP Help and the PDFs. A little bit more than 2 minutes per questions may sound like a short time, but it took me around an hour to complete the whole test, and that includes the introduction to the software as well as answering the questions and going through them again.

     

    8. Pass and wait to receive the certificate

    Pass the exam, wait for SAP to send you the certificate by mail, take it gently out of the envelope and put it into a fancy frame. Hang it on the wall with the support of a nail or put it in your cubicle.

     

    Now what?

    SAP is not offering a certification for Portal 7.3, and I can only guess why. 7.3 is getting more and more traction In the market (it’s around for some time now). At least I'd like to see a roadmap / statement on the SAP education site talking about the status of 7.3 certification.

     

    Does a SAP Portal certification make sense? SAP Portal development means Java development, so the underlying technology is Java and Java web technologies. Oracle offers certifications in that area too, and honestly, when you are looking for a portlet developer certification, it makes more sense to go for that certification, as you`ll learn about the Java standard and not about how to develop for a specific product. Of course you won't learn about VC, WDJ and EPCF, but your skills should be more universally applicable (think also HANA Cloud Portal); in case you want to change your specialization.

     

    While to focus is on Java, a small section should also cover Web Dynpro ABAP development and how to customize standard portal applications like masthead or the logon screen.

     

    Why a portal certification at all and not SAP Mobile Platform? I’m still waiting to see how SMP evolves and how SAP Education will offer trainings and certification to new SMP versions, especially considering Syclo integration.

     

     

    *For those wondering: I achieved > 95% for the SAP Portal and EP120 part, and my weak part was WDJ. As I do not really like WDJ I also had motivational problems when it came to learn about controllers, hooks, etc.

    Hi All,


    I am applying Support Stack 13 to Netweaver 7.02.

    I selects packages then stops cluster and while starting it gives message Cluster not started waiting 5 seconds....

    asn so on.

    I never starts cluster.I tried different SAP notes,parameters but nothing worked.


    From the logs what I have seen is


    Deployment will be performed in engine mode UPGRADE as deployment threshold set in JSPM config file is reached.

    Restarting cluster SEP in SAFE mode


    I removed instance from SAFE mode tried to restart but again it came to same point.


    Then I checked jspm_config.txt in /usr/sap/SEP/JC60/j2ee/JSPM/param.


    here parameter  /jspm/deploymentEngineMode was set to SAFE_UPGRADE, I commented it and set it to NORMAL.


    And afterwards stacks went ahead.


    Just wanted to share this information as I could not get this when I was looking for it on SDN.


    Thanks.

    Best Regards,
    Vinod

    1 2 3 … 17 Previous Next

    Filter Blog

    By author:
    By date:
    By tag: