Create iView

In this post, we will go over the steps involved in creating an iView from scratch. The detailed description of what all options you have when creating an iView are out of scope for this discussion as typically a security administrator is not likely to be asked to create iViews for a productive system. However, like most other posts on this blog there is enough information to get you started and help you understand what all options are available for a portal developer.

The first step while creating new content (iview/workset/role/page) for Portal is to decide the folder in the PCD where your custom development is going to be stored. On right clicking on the appropriate directory you get the option of creating new content. We chose the option of creating a new iview.

The create iview screen gives you a few options – Create iview from template or for a java webdynpro or for an ABAP webdynpro. Each of these options will have their own configuration options.

In our case we chose the option of creating an iview from an iview template. This in turn opens up a new page with lots more options. For example iview templates are available for BEX queries, SAP transactions, etc.

In the next post we go through the individual steps for creating an iview based on a SAP transaction