You can define a special authorization for every document type. To do this, you need to determine what document types in which form employees are allowed to process. You then specify a user-definable authorization group in the document type and assign the authorization for this authorization group to the employees who are allowed to work with this document type.

The system does not check the authorization for document types that are not allocated an authorization group.

Authorizations are checked for:

• Posting documents
• Displaying documents and line items
• Changing documents
• Programs that evaluate documents.

For more information on this topic, see the Maintain Authorizations activity in the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Financial Accounting Global Settings.

In each document type, you can specify whether users are required to enter a reference number or the document header text.