We can create SAP NetWeaver Portal users from various sources. One is through LDAP. Unfortunately, the details from LDAP are never comprehensive. Next, is through user inputs. Users register and provide details like country and language. This post shows how
How to Retrieve a List of Locked User Accounts directly from SAP NetWeaver Portal
Background [wp_ad_camp_1] A problem ticket was created for a production issue wherein the SAP NetWeaver Portal application’s Unlock Users functionality is taking too long to even just list the all locked accounts from a specific country. During the investigation, I
How to get Currently Logged In Portal User in SAP Web Dynpro for Java
The current user may be set on some context variables but it may be out-of-sync, e.g. user id of previously logged in other user, or inadventently updated by other components. The safer approach is to retrieve it straight from WDClientUser.
How to programmatically change passwords in SAP NetWeaver Portal
This article demonstrates how to programmatically change user passwords in SAP NetWeaver Portal using available API.
How to programmatically create users in SAP NetWeaver Portal
This article demonstrates how to programmatically change user passwords in SAP NetWeaver Portal using available API. For applications with very high number of users, they may be better off keeping some references to portal users in their databases. For instance, an application can cache user ids in its database when new users are created. In that that way, it has readily available list of users at its disposal. Certain non-critical queries can be delegated to the RDBMS to reduce hits to the portal.