1. SharePoint and WebFOCUS
Scott Schledwitz
Senior Systems Engineer

2. 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
Agenda for this presentation.
Gil Rodriguez & Carlotta Cunningham – presenting OPS topics

3. Overview

4. WebFOCUS Open Portal Services What is a portal ?
A portal provides business users with an integrated, personalized and secure Web-based interface to business content (information, applications, expertise, etc..).

5. WebFOCUS Open Portal Services Enterprise Information Portals
Portals Provide:
Personalization Service
Publishing and categorization services
Information directory
Search Engine
Collaboration
Single point of control to access business content

6. WebFOCUS Open Portal Services Overview
Portals need to access information to be valuable
A large portion of needed information is locked in databases and applications
Most portals lack BI capabilities
Reporting and analysis are not core technologies
They rely on applications and tools to create the content they display
Portals concentrate and deliver fully formatted content, they do not crunch data or format reports

7. WebFOCUS Open Portal Services Overview
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.

8. WebFOCUS Open Portal Services Overview
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.
Providing immediate access to critical enterprise-wide data through a personalized portal page.
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.

9. 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.
Open Portal Services supports secure signon integration with supported third-party portal products. After receiving the user's ID from the portal product via a secure channel, Open Portal Services initiates a trusted Managed Reporting signon on behalf of the user id to avoid the subsequent Managed Reporting logon prompt.

10. External Authentication Provider
Architecture
ORA
External Authentication Provider
DB2
Web Tier
Reporting Server
Servlet Container
Web Server
HTTP Clients
SQL
SharePoint 2007 Server
with
Open Portal Services
WF User is on machine with browser. Browser connects via HTTP to the Portal. User is authenticated via an external authentication provider. Portal connects via HTTP to the web/middle tier where the ID is validated against our Managed Reporting Repository. This is where most of the WF software is installed. Web tier software is written in Java. MR, BID, tools and WF servlet, comm. Together known as WF Client.
Client talks to the Reporting Server. Reporting server connects to data on various platforms.
WebFOCUS Client

11. WebFOCUS Open Portal Services Overview
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
JavaScript
HTML/XML

12. SharePoint and WebFOCUS Open Portal Services Integration

13. SharePoint and WebFOCUS Open Portal Services Integration
Product Certification
WebFOCUS 7.7 is the latest Production Release
SharePoint 2007
SharePoint 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.

14. WebFOCUS Open Portal Services WebParts
Domain WebPart
Report WebPart
Defer Status WebPart
QuickLinks WebPart
Favorites WebPart

15. WebParts Installation & Configuration

16. 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.

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

18. Preparing the WebParts for deployment: Step 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.

19. 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

20. Deploying webParts to SharePoint
Create a site by clicking on “Create new ... sites…”

21. Deploying webParts to SharePoint
2. Click create, the following page should be displayed:

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

23. Deploying webParts to SharePoint
4. Click on the box where you would like your webPart displayed

24. Deploying webParts to SharePoint
5. Click on advanced web part gallery and options

25. Deploying webParts to SharePoint
6. The Add webParts box should appear on the right side of the page.

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

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

28. Deploying webParts to SharePoint
9. Drag the webpart you just uploaded into the box on the left and click on edit/modify shared webPart.

29. Deploying webParts to SharePoint
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.

30. Tip Be sure that the id you logged onto Sharepoint exists in MRE
otherwise you will get a login failed message above instead.

31. 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.

32. 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">

33. Editing the “link” directive
For the Domain WebPart the “link” directive would be changed from <Link xmlns="WOAS_ContentViewer"> to <Link xmlns="WOAS_ContentViewer"> 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.

34. Here’s the custom webPart

35. Questions?