URL Re-direct

[Former Member]

Hi Security Gurus, I am BW consultant and running into some issue with user, so I thought I can get some input from this forum.

We use a tool "Information Broadcasting" thru which we can send mass users a URL link, in an email, to a report and they can just click on it and open the report. At our site, we all (inlcluding the users) login to a non-SAP portal (IE) which uses single sign on to logon to all R/3 and BW servers. The end users who receive the URL link in the email have the authorizations only to run the report and nothing else. When they click open the link, it prompts them to enter username/password, which defeats the purpose of SSO thru portal. I was thinking if there was a way to re-direct the URL to go thru portal and avoid the users to enter or directly logon to BW server.

Please let me know if you have not understood what I am trying to explain. Full points assured for a good answer.

Thnx.

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Bigtoja

[Former Member]

Hi Bigtoja,

Yes, that is what I suspected. I suppose it would still depend on how many reports there are, whether they are all the same for the users or need to be tailored, and whether their names are stable or changing a lot; then it might still be of interest to create a report tree which is presented when the user logs on.

It was just a thought to get rid of the URL in the mail.

Cheers,

Julius

[Former Member]

HI Bigtoja,

the ABAP system can be configured to redirect upon logon error.

But on the other hand, can the non-SAP portal forward a redirect back to the original source ?

If yes, why not directly go to that portals redirect service ? If this does not work, the logon error redirect of the ABAP system may be of no help either.

Kind regards,

Patrick

[Former Member]

Hi Bigtoja,

Another alternative is to create a transaction code for this report. Then add the tcode to the start transaction for the users and send them a mail without the direct shortcut telling them that something new is there for them.

When they then logon to the SAP system, the system first executes your start transaction at logon, before giving them their normal menu.

This definately can be made to work, but it might be dependent on your SSO and the requirements of the report. Not sure about those two.

Cheers,

Julius

[Former Member]

Thanks for the answers.

Patrick, your solutions looks like it can be done. Please specify the steps on how I can achieve re-directing the URL.

Julius, the thing is we have so many reports that will be sent out a diverse set of users everytime. Most of these reports will be sent out via Information Broadcaster which is attached to a process chain and that is based on event occurances like delta upload. So creating tcode might not be a good option. If you have any other option please let me know. Thanks for your time.

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Bigtoja

[Former Member]

HI Bigtoja,

again most work has to be done on the 3rd party portal. Instead of creating a link to the SAP system, you would create a link to your portal with the destination URL as a parameter. So this could look like:

http://your.portal.company.com/logonhandler?dest=my.sap.company.com/destination-url

For more information about the NW AS ABAP logon error redirect, please consult the <a href="http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/f9/4b8e3a89210f25e10000000a11405a/frameset.htm">help pages on this topic</a>.

The big question I can not answer is, can the 3rd party portal do it.

[Former Member]

Hi Bigtoja,

Yes, that is what I suspected. I suppose it would still depend on how many reports there are, whether they are all the same for the users or need to be tailored, and whether their names are stable or changing a lot; then it might still be of interest to create a report tree which is presented when the user logs on.

It was just a thought to get rid of the URL in the mail.

Cheers,

Julius