Maintain Profiles

In this IMG activity you define authorization profiles or check whether the standard profiles supplied meet your requirements. In addition, you can gather previously defined profiles in composite profiles.

A profile contains authorization objects for a delimited working area.

A composite profile contains several profiles.

With the help of profiles and composite profiles, you can easily structure and manage authorizations.

By entering a profile or a composite profile into the user master, a user receives all authorizations contained in it.

Requirements

• You have the authorization to create or maintain profiles.

• Create authorizations in the IMG activity Maintain Authorizations if the standard authorizations do not meet your requirements.

Standard settings

Profiles for some typical applications are preset in the standard R/3 System, such as:

• SAP_ALL

All authorizations in the R/3 System.

• SAP_NEW

All authorizations for newly created authorization objects.

• Profile in Cost and Revenue Element Accounting

• Profile for Cost Center Accounting

• Profile for Internal Orders

• Profile for Activity Based Costing

• Profile for Product Cost Controlling

• Profile for Profitability Analysis

Activities

1. Check whether the standard profiles meet your requirements.

2. If necessary, create new profiles according to your requirements. To do so, proceed as follows:

a) Enter the name of the required profile.

Keep the naming conventions in mind.

This can be an existing profile or a new profile.

b) Choose "Generate work area".

c) Use "Create" to determine whether it is a simple profile or a composite profile.

d) Enter a short text.

e) Enter authorizations for your profile by proceeding as follows:

• Choose your profile.

• Choose "Insert authorization".

You receive the list of the object classes. Via this list, you choose the necessary authorizations.

• Mark the required authorizations in the value set list and copy them into the profile.

f) Save your profile.

g) Activate your profile.

3. Check whether the profiles are complete, that is, whether all users can carry out the required actions.

Note on transport

You transport profiles as follows:

1. Display the profiles list.

2. Choose "Profile - Transport".

3. Select the profiles you wish to transport.

4. Confirm your selections and enter the correction number.