This is the second part of the series focused on customer focused analytics. If you have not seen it yet you can check the part 1 here.
I am going to discuss how to build a custom application URL to host BI contents so that a user group gets their BI contents available in just one place rather than having to go through launchpad and bunch of folders. I am going to discuss on a step by step approach how to configure in IIS webserver so all the screen shots are specific to IIS only.
Three items need to be installed/configured on the server in order to prepare to serve up IIS websites:
Go to the Server Manager console on the server and select the option Add Roles -
Select the web server IIS role anc click next -
Once the installation is over, you will be able to see the role and services installed -
Download the .Net 4.5 setup from Microsoft site.
Double click on the downloaded .exe file to start the setup.
Follow the on screen instructions to complete the setup.
How to Setup a Custom IIS Website for housing opendoc links
Create a folder that will server as the home folder for the website, this is required while creating the website.
Go to the properties of the home folder that was created for the web site and add the ‘Everyone’ group with execute access –
Open up the Windows Server IIS manager console in one of two ways:
Start > Run > inetmgr > hit enter
or …
Start > Administrative Tools > Internet Information Services Manager
Right click on ‘Sites’ and select the option – Add Web Site.
Fill in the detail fields corresponding to the application area for which we are creating the site. These are…
Site Name: This name should match that of the Application Area established in the BO Launchpad
Physical Path: This is the path to the home contenet folder for the site that you created in an earlier step
Host Name: This equates to the web URL that users will enter to visit the web page (see example, below, for the “Inventory” application).
In IIS left pane, click on Application Pools to see all application pools for your sites. For your new site, make sure that the application pool is set to use the latest version of .Net Framework . If it is not, double click the application pool and in the dialoge window select the latest version for .Net Framework.
Bindings
In IIS left pane, right-click on your new application site and select Edit Bindings… Make sure that both bindings are present on the website – the short name and the fully qualified name.
Once the website is created, the code needs to be put in the home folder we created.
There are couple of things that we need to modify for the sites for each application area that we are rolling out the site for.
The following three files need to be modified to change the site as per the new application.
The timeout popup setting is in this file in the section for function Init() , if required it can be changed. We are currently using a standard timer value of 7140000.
The title of the Web Site and the working environment is present in this file –
The Workingenv parameter decides which links will be used from the links.xml file.
The Title parameter decided what will be the title of the webpage.
the opendoc links, title of the different tabs and the tooltip help is present in this file –
Based on the working environment we set in the web.config, the opendoc links will be picked from the links.xml file.
while inserting the links, we needto modify them a bit –
Once the website is created, make sure to create an simple alias for the users to accessthe site – for example http://sales, http://quality etc.
Alias names being requested should be SAME as the bindings that have been provided for the web site.
Once the alias has been created, access the web site using any browser and confirm that it is working as expected.
Now finally once you are done with these you will have a website where you can embed the BI content for a personalized experience of your end user community.
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