Configure properties in the WP Configuration Service

Instead of configuring the SAP navigation page properties in the Manage Pages portlet, we can also add the configuration properties for the SAP navigation integration and for the SAP integrator portlet to the WebSphere Portal WP Configuration Service resource environment provider. Then you reference these settings in the Page Parameters or the Edit Shared Settings mode.

This solution can be of benefit in the following cases:

• For the SAP navigation page: If the configuration setting values exceed a length of 255 characters, we cannot specify them as page parameters.

• For the IBM WebSphere Portal Integrator for SAP portlet: If you have multiple instances of the SAP integrator portlet, it can help to put common configuration settings for the instances into the WP Configuration Service. Typically, the difference in the configuration between several instances of the integrator portlet lies only in the SAP content URL setting.

We can select the names for the resource environment properties as we like. Then you reference the properties in the page properties, and prefix their values in the page properties with the string ConfigService: .

For example, if you name a WP Configuration Service property sap.content.url , you refer to this property by specifying ConfigService:sap.content.url as a page parameter for the fields in the Edit Shared Settings mode of the SAP integrator portlet. The portlet checks this additional property and accepts its value only if the property exists in the WP Configuration Service.

After we added the resource environment properties to the WP Configuration Service, restart the portal server so that we can use them.

For details about portal service configuration properties and how to set them see the topics about Portal configuration services and Setting service configuration properties.

Parent: Configure Integrator for SAP
Related:
Configure Basic Authentication for SSO for the SAP navigation integration
Set service configuration properties
Related reference:
Portal configuration services