Role and User Distribution to the SAP System

SAP Enterprise Portal provides you with broad and easy-to-use functions for the creation and administration of roles and users (see Roles in the Enterprise Portal).

In order to be able to access connected SAP systems with the roles managed in the portal, you must transfer these role definitions and user assignments to the SAP systems. For this distribution process, a component in the portal is available, which allows you to distribute the portal roles and user assignments to the SAP system.

Data on the following services can be transferred from SAP Enterprise Portal to the SAP system:

· Transactions

· Non-transactional data (for example, TADIR services or RFC-enabled function modules) in the form of authorization trace IDs

On the SAP system side, transaction WP3R is available. This allows you to assign a corresponding role in the SAP system to users and their assigned portal roles. The corresponding role (authorization role) contains the authorizations that are required to perform certain services, for example, transactions, from within the portal.

Prerequisites

Up to Basis Release 6.20, you must import Enterprise Portal plug-in 6.0 into your SAP systems in order for the functions necessary for follow-up processing of the portal roles to be available in the ABAP-based SAP system.

With Basis Release 6.40, the functions of Enterprise Portal plug-in 6.0 are included in the corresponding PI_BASIS, which no longer needs to be imported separately. See also Note 723189.

For information about the necessary authorizations.

Constraints

· Release 4.0

The portal data can only be displayed. You can neither create authorization roles nor assign roles to users.

· Release 4.5

You cannot assign roles to users if the central user administration is used with global role assignment and a central system of Release 4.5.

· Release 6.20

Support for default authorization values for services is provided through support packages. You can find out the current status in SAP Note 640759.

· Enterprise Portal Plug-In <>

If you use an Enterprise Portal Plug-In <>