Creating Web Applications with the Web Application Wizard

Use

You can use the Web application wizard to create a Web template quickly and easily. You can publish this template as a Web application in the Internet browser. The Web template is an HTML document with BW specific placeholders that determines the structure of a Web application. 

You can use the Web application wizard to create Web templates but not change them. If you want to change your Web template, you use the Web Application Designer. See Create Web Applications with the BEx Web Application Designer and Further Editing Web Templates.

Prerequisites

You have called up the BEx Web Application Designer.

Procedure

       1.      Choose  or Tools ® Wizard, to call up the Web Application Designer.

       2.      Select a Web item from the list and choose Next.

The Web item determines how the source data is displayed. Using different Web items, you can visualize your data in different ways. For example, you can display your data in a table, in a chart or in a map.   The dropdown box, checkboxes, and radio button group Web items are used to filter characteristic values. You can find additional information about the Web items available under Web Items.

       3.      Select a query or a query view.

In the DataProvider field, either select a DataProvider using input help or use  for a new DataProvider. The DataProvider provides data for one or more Web items. 

You can select either a query or a query view as a DataProvider for the Web item. Choose either  (Select Query) or  (Choose View). This brings you to the Open Query / View dialog box. 

From here, select the required query or query view from your history, favorites, or roles. Choose Next. 

You can also manually alter the name of the Web item here. The name identifies the Web item within the template.

       4.      Set the attributes for the Web item. You can edit the attributes by:

-         Selecting the checkbox

-         Manually entering a value (for example, with Heading)

-         Manually changing the default value

-         Double-clicking the default value and choosing another value from the dropdown box that automatically appears

-         Choosing values from a list

-         Creating values in a list in tabular form

Choose Next.

       5.      Arrange the Web items that you created in the list.

The sequence of Web items in the list is the same as the sequence of Web items in the Web application.

Use the two arrow buttons on the right-hand side to change the order of the Web items. Here you can also

Delete Web items	Select the Web item you want to delete and choose Delete.
Add a new Web item	Choose Add Item.
Edit Web items	Select the Web item you want to edit and choose Back.

       6.      Before saving the Web template, you can make the following settings:

-         Use the pushbutton next to the Stylesheet field to choose the stylesheet that you want to use for your Web application. The Choose Stylesheet dialog box appears. Select a stylesheet from the list. If you would rather use a stylesheet that is not on the list, one that is on your Web server, for example, mark the checkbox and enter the URL. Choose OK.

-         If you select Display Variables, a variables screen appears in the Web application, from which you can select the required values. If you do not select Display Variables, the Web application is displayed without a variable screen.

-         If you select Status-free Navigation, the system closes the connection to the server. This means you do not use any of the server’s storage capacity. If you then navigate in the Web application, the connection to the server is reopened and remains open for the duration of the navigation. If you do not select Status-free Navigation, the system maintains the connection to the server.

-         Choose Settings to do the following:

    In the General tab page, you can change the stylesheet that is used to format the Web application or set the default stylesheet. 

      Choose the pushbutton with the three dots (Change Settings).  The     

      Choose Stylesheet dialog box appears. Proceed as outlined in step 6 

      above. 

In the Directories tab page, you can change the following path 

specifications

•      Path for the Web browser
•      Path for the HTML editor 

You can find additional information about making settings under Determining Settings.

-         Choose Save once you have made all the required settings for your Web template.

       7.      You can now publish your Web template.

Here you can see the URL for your completed Web template. You can now publish the Web template directly in the Web, or you can integrate it as an iView in your Enterprise Portal. 

You have the following options for using the Web template again:

-         Choose  to display the Web template in the Web browser.

-         Choose  to save the Web template as an iView in a role.

-         Choose  to save the Web template as an iView file locally, so it 

          can be used in the iView studio.

Then choose Exit to close the BEx Web application wizard. The Web template appears in the BEx Web Application Designer. You can now continue to edit the template as required.