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SharePoint and WebFOCUS

Scott SchledwitzSenior Systems Engineer

Copyright 2010, Information Builders. Slide 1


WebFOCUS and Shareport- Agenda

Overview What is OPS? Benefits of OPS

SharePoint and WebFOCUS Open Portal Services Integration Portal & WebFOCUS certification WebParts (WebFOCUS Components)

WebParts Installation & Configuration

Overview



WebFOCUS Open Portal Services Overview

Portals need to access information to be valuableA large portion of needed information is locked in

databases and applicationsMost portals lack BI capabilities

Reporting and analysis are not core technologies They rely on applications and tools to create the

content they displayPortals concentrate and deliver fully formatted content,

they do not crunch data or format reports



Open Portal Services enables you to extend WebFOCUS business intelligence capabilities to end users within an existing EIP framework.

Users can: Personalize the way they view, store, and retrieve

business intelligence content for optimum job efficiency. Decide what content to include in each content window

and how that content is displayed and organized. Combine graphics and reports in the same portal page. Employ analytic tools for all types of reporting and query,

including ad hoc and OLAP.



Benefits of Using WebFOCUS Open Portal Services

WebFOCUS Open Portal Services offer many benefits to the users within the enterprise by: Providing immediate access to critical enterprise-wide data. Incorporating comprehensive reporting and analysis capabilities within

the portal and enhancing the user experience by delivering relevant, real-time information.

Enabling users to display, locate, share, visualize, and analyze business intelligence information based on their roles within the enterprise.

Supporting internal and external security for delivering timely and accurate business reports to authorized users.


WebFOCUS Open Portal Services Single Signon Support

Support for secure signon integration with supported third-party portal products

Initiates a trusted Managed Reporting signon on behalf of the Portal User using its user ID to avoid the subsequent Managed Reporting logon prompt.



WebFOCUS Open Portal Services provides a set of WebFOCUS components that allow WebFOCUS to integrate quickly into EIPs.

To achieve portability and reusability these components may be in any of the following formats:

ASP JSP JAVA JavaScriptHTML/XML


SharePoint and WebFOCUS Open Portal Services Integration


SharePoint and WebFOCUS Open Portal Services Integration

Product Certification

WebFOCUS 7.7 is the latest Production Release

SharePoint 2007SharePoint 2007 integrated with WebFOCUS 7.7

Open Portal Services can run on different machines as long as there is connectivity to the machine where the WebFOCUS client is installed on.


WebFOCUS Open Portal Services WebParts

Domain WebPartReport WebPartDefer Status WebPartQuickLinks WebPartFavorites WebPart

WebParts Installation & Configuration


Installation prerequisites:

WebFOCUS 76x or above. In our case it’s 7.7.WebFOCUS 76x or above Reporting Server.TOMCAT 5.5.x or up.


Configuration steps:

By default SharePoint runs on port 80. Here is the default screen:


Preparing the WebParts for deployment: Step 1

1. I have copied the WOAS_Cab.cab file into your C:\ibi\WebFOCUS77\worp\components\webparts2 directory on

the WebFOCUS client. From the drive:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN\ directory I have copied stsadm.exe into this directory as well.


Preparing the webParts for deployment: Step 2

2. From the dos prompt, cd into the above directory on your machine and execute the following command:

stsadm -o addwppack -filename WOAS_Cab.CAB -force -globalinstall

after this command is executed you should see the following output:

Operation completed successfully


Deploying webParts to SharePoint

1. Create a site by clicking on “Create new ... sites…”



2. Click create, the following page should be displayed:



3. Click on site actions and choose edit page to add webParts.



4. Click on the box where you would like your webPart displayed



5. Click on advanced web part gallery and options



6. The Add webParts box should appear on the right side of the page.



7. Click on the arrow next to the browse button in the add webparts box and choose import.



8. Browse to the webparts2 folder under ../ibi/WebFOCUS/worp/components directory and choose the domain webpart to import and click on upload.



9. Drag the webpart you just uploaded into the box on the left and click on edit/modify shared webPart.



10. Scroll down on the box on the right expand the content area, and choose the check box called

isolated webpart , Update the url to add the port :8080 and click apply.


Tip

Be sure that the id you logged onto Sharepoint exists in MRE

otherwise you will get a login failed message above instead.


Customizing WebParts: Parameters for Portlets for WebParts

All WebParts share the following parameters:

view This parameter is used by the content URL to identify the WebFOCUS

component you are accessing.

height The height of the frame in pixels. The default height is 350 pixels.

title The formal name of the WebFOCUS component, for example, WebFOCUS

Domain. This is the value that appears in the title bar for the component.

contextpath Specify the following context path:

/ibi_apps

expiration-path The amount of time that the content of a WebFOCUS component is

retained in cache before it is cleared. By default, cache expiration is not enabled.


Configurable parameters by webPart

WebFOCUS Deferred Status and Favorites do not have

additional parameters that can be configured. WebFOCUS Domain has:

multidomain WebFOCUS Report has:

showrefresh, userrunonly, usescrollbars, showtimestamp, gn,

colNum, scale and refresh WebFOCUS Quicklinks has:

showrefresh, lbdisplay, rcdisplay, pvdisplay, gvautolaunch, servername, mvdisplay and

gvdisplay

These parameters are added to the .dwp file on the “link” directive (for example: The Domain WebPart’s “link” directive is:

<Link xmlns="WOAS_ContentViewer">http://localhost/ibi_apps/components/woas/governor/WOAS_view.jsp?SID=_LogonUser_&view=domain</Link>


Editing the “link” directive

For the Domain WebPart the “link” directive would be

changed from

<Link xmlns="WOAS_ContentViewer">http://localhost/ibi_apps/components/woas/governor/WOAS_view.jsp?SID=_LogonUser_&view=domain</Link>

to

<Link xmlns="WOAS_ContentViewer">http://localhost/ibi_apps/components/woas/governor/WOAS_view.jsp?SID=_LogonUser_&view=domain&multidomains=yes</Link>

Notice: After creating a new webPart, the stsadm… command has to be re-executed. You also have to add and &amp before the parameter you are adding.


Here’s the custom webPart


Questions?


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