Beginner
Prepare the Portal Environment for Creating Sites
July 14, 2020
Created by
August 4, 2019
5 min.
To get started with building a Portal site, administrators must perform the required onboarding steps.
You will learn
- How to subscribe to the Portal Service
- How to assign users to the
Portal_Adminrole so that they can design Portal sites - How to access the Portal service
Prerequisites
- If you want to use a trial environment, you need to first register it. You can register to a trial account using this link: Create a trial account.
- If you’re using a production environment, you should have a subaccount configured. If you don’t have a subaccount in the Cloud Foundry environment, refer to this topic: Initial Setup.
In this group of tutorials our goal is to create an attractive Portal site using the SAP Cloud Platform Portal service. But before we can do this, there are some steps you need to do in the SAP Cloud Platform cockpit.
Step 1: Subscribe to the Portal service
Before you can access the Portal service, you first need to subscribe to it.
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Log onto SAP Cloud Platform and click Enter Your Trial Account.
If this is your first time accessing your trial account, you’ll have to configure your account by choosing a region (select the region closest to you). Your user profile will be set up for you automatically.
Wait till your account is set up and ready to go. Your global account, your subaccount, your organization, and your space are launched. This may take a couple of minutes.
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Click Continue.
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Click the trial tile to navigate to your trial subaccount in the SAP Cloud Platform cockpit. If you are using your own subaccount, you can select it instead.
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Click Subscriptions from the side menu.
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Enter
Portalin the search box and click the Portal service tile.
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Click Subscribe and wait for the status to change to Subscribed.
Step 2: Add yourself to the Portal_Admin role
To be able to do administrative tasks in the Portal you must be assigned to the Portal_Admin role. In this step, you will first create a role collection and then you’ll assign yourself to the Portal_Admin role.
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Click on your subaccount again using the breadcrumbs at the top.
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Click Security > Trust Configuration from the side menu.
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Click
sap.defaultto select the SAP ID Service.
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Enter your email address and then click Show Assignments.
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Click Assign Role Collection.
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Select the Portal Admin role and click Assign Role Collection.
You have now been assigned to the Portal_Admin role and you can access the Portal service and carry out all your admin tasks.
Step 3: Access the Portal service
You are now ready to access the Portal service.
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Use the breadcrumbs to open your trial subaccount.
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Click Subscriptions from the side panel.
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Search for the Portal tile. You’ll see that you are now subscribed to the Portal service.
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Click Go to Application on the Portal tile.
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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.
