SAP Business Server Pages and SharePoint (MOSS 2007)

The last couple of days I worked together with our internal IT (Chris Dearing and John Burrows) on a whitepaper which might be interesting for a couple of people. It’s about using SAP Business Server pages (SAP BSP) in SharePoint 2007. SAP offers a lot of Business Server Page Packages which cover a complete business scenario; one example is the Learning Management System (SAP LMS). For rendering the BSPs in SharePoint a custom web part called the dynamic page viewer is necessary, an code example for building such a dynamic page viewer can be found in the appendix of the whitepaper. The purpose of this web part is to allow for SharePoint left hand navigation to specify the destination URL of the IFrame that is rendered within the web part - thus allowing for integrated SharePoint navigation within a single SharePoint page. This web part eliminates the need to have multiple SharePoint pages with a page viewer web part and separate, static URLs. It allows for a configurable, clean architecture for surfacing BSPs in SharePoint that have integrated SharePoint navigation. The paper will be published soon on www.microsoft.com/sap. If you have any questions in the meantime feel free to send us a mail or stop by at our booth at the SAPPHIRE Vienna!

- Juergen