Prepare the Portal Environment for Creating Sites

Before you can access the Portal service, you need to first subscribe to it.

1. Log onto SAP Cloud Platform and click Enter Your Trial Account.

   

2. Click on the trial tile to navigate to your trial subaccount in the SAP Cloud Platform cockpit. If you are using your own subaccount, you can click on it instead.

   

3. Click Subscriptions from the side menu.

   

4. Enter Portal in the search box and click the Portal service tile.

   

5. Click Subscribe and wait for the status to change to Subscribed.

   

To be able to do administrative tasks in the Portal you must be assigned to the Super_Admin role. In this step, you will first create a role collection and then you’ll assign yourself to the Super_Admin role.

1. Click on your subaccount again using the breadcrumbs at the top.

2. Click Security > Role Collections from the side menu.

   

3. Click New Role Collection and then name your role collection Administrator. Then click Save.

   

4. Click your role collection to open the Roles screen and then click Add Role.

   

5. Select the following values:

   Property	Value
   Application Identifier	portal-cf-service!<id>   In the screen capture below, the Application Identifier has an ID at the end. This ID may be different on your system – just make sure that you choose the value with this format: portal-cf-service!<id>
   Role Template	Super_Admin
   Role	Super_Admin

   

6. Click Save.

7. Go back to your subaccount (you can use the breadcrumbs at the top of your screen).

8. Click Security > Trust Configuration from the side menu.

   

9. Click the SAP ID Service.

10. Enter your email address and then click Show Assignments.

    

11. If your user is not part of the SAP ID Service you will get the following popup. Click Add User.

    

12. Click Assign Role Collection. In the dialog box that opens, select the Administrator role collection that you defined above and then click Assign Role Collection.

    

You have now been assigned to the Super_Admin role and you can access the Portal service and carry out all your admin tasks.

You are now ready to access the Portal service.

1. Click on your subaccount.

2. Click Subscriptions from the side panel.

   

   You’ll see that you are now subscribed to the Portal service.

3. Click Go to Application on the Portal tile.

   

4. Add your credentials if you are prompted to do so.

The Portal service opens with the Site Directory in focus. This is where you create and manage the sites that you create for this subaccount.