Tracks and Sessions with Sycor: 2 - 5 March 2009, Orlando, Florida

Give your web shop customer-specific branding by using the SAP E-Commerce theme concept

Ludwig Hunecke , Wednesday, March 4, 8:30 am - 9:45 am, Room: Sarasota 2

Learn how to use layout themes to create different versions of your web shop presence without having to create and maintain multiple applications or install a separate instance of SAP ERP. Explore different ways to create themes based on varying JavaScript™ functions, images, and style definitions. Review how the themes can be set during configuration or as a URL parameter when a customer enters your web shop. Learn about the development tools from SAP NetWeaver that you’ll need to use for the server side and the client side. Delve into the key enhancements of the web shop user interfaces including the ability to support different colors, themes, and file types. Step through a demo of how to use themes effectively, without having to maintain a redundant copy of all style files from SAP, and with minimum coding efforts.

Martin Walter , Monday, March 2, 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm, Room: Sarasota 2

Learn how to customize your SAP E-Commerce application by adding values, enabling or disabling features, and adding customer-specific enhancements using the web shop administration application. Know when to use web shop administration versus extended configuration manager and the benefits and drawbacks of each. Broaden your knowledge of the shop-specific configuration available within SAP E-Commerce, including creation of new tabs and parameters. Learn how to set up multiple shops within a single SAP E-Commerce application configured with a variety of supporting features, like calculation methods for the initial requested delivery date, to reduce the time spent on your web shop installation. See a live demo that takes you through the steps to rapidly create modifications based on your specific parameters.

Ludwig Hunecke , Tuesday, March 3, 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm, Room: Sarasota 1

In this session, you will learn how to combine Adobe Flex 3 Builder™ with the latest version of SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio to create a user interface that easily displays complex grids and charts. Gather step-by-step instructions on how to integrate Flex 3, which creates files rendered by Flash® Player, into SAP E-Commerce, and collect expert tips for navigating common technical obstacles like a transparent Struts integration and security. See how to display Flex applications in the SAP E-Commerce user interface and how to establish a communication channel between Flex and SAP E-Commerce business logic. Leave knowing how to use Flex 3 to enhance your web shop appearance, including customizable visual effects like streaming video and application behavior like drag and drop.

Martin Walter , Tuesday, March 3, 10:15 am - 11:30 am, Room: Sarasota 2

Learn how to streamline communication between your purchasing system and your web shop application using SAP E-Commerce and SAP Enterprise Buyer. Learn how a customer in SAP EB can access an SAP E-Commerce web shop, create shopping cart items, and automatically transfer product data from the sales system to the purchasing system using the open catalog interface. Learn how to implement the open catalog interface, including steps for calling up the catalog using your supplier relationship management (SRM) server and configuring return parameters and types. Gain an understanding of how synching the sales and purchasing systems can result in an automatic data exchange (including additional parameters) and prevent double counting. Take home ideas and coding examples for customer-specific extensions of SAP E-Commerce, like project-specific additional call up parameters and return parameters that could streamline buying and selling processes.