If you want to use the roles that you are maintaining in a SAP R/3 System in the Enterprise Portal, you can use a tool for migrating R/3 roles to the portal. You can migrate existing single and composite roles with all their contents from the SAP R/3 System to the Enterprise Portal. The authorizations are not migrated. They remain in the R/3 System and continue to be maintained there. After migration, the roles are available in the portal together with their structure and contents.

If, on the other hand, you want to integrate contents from R/3 applications in your portal role (as an External Service or as a Java iView on a page), you can use functions in the portal and in R/3 with which you can distribute portal roles and user assignments from the Enterprise Portal to a connected SAP R/3 System. This function is intended to assign users and their assigned portal roles a corresponding role in the SAP System. This function is intended to assign users and their assigned portal roles a corresponding role in the SAP System. You can perform this function using a distribution function in the portal and a special editing transaction for portal roles in R/3.