Upload of Roles from ABAP-Based Systems 

Use

You can use existing single and composite role menus as well as authorization profiles from ABAP-based SAP systems when you use SAP Enterprise Portal. Within portal administration, you can use an upload tool to upload objects (such as roles and transactions) from ABAP-based SAP systems. The authorization profiles remain in the backend system and can, for example, be used when you call a transaction from the portal.

The role upload is a function which you can use for the following scenarios:

·        You want to use existing role definitions of an ABAP-based SAP system in SAP Enterprise Portal.

·        You want to use objects from ABAP-based systems (such as transactions or MiniApps) as content objects to build your roles in the portal. These objects must therefore be available in the portal.

·        Initially you upload all the relevant roles and objects from the ABAP-based SAP systems to SAP Enterprise Portal. In the future you only want to create and maintain your content objects from the portal.

·        You upload newly created role definitions to the portal from the backend system at regular intervals. You do this especially when you use the ABAP-based SAP system as the leading system. In this case you still create your roles in this system and only use the portal to display and navigate in the contents.

You must start the upload manually; an automation of the process is currently not available.

Integration

The uploaded objects are converted into portal objects. For more information see Object Conversion in the Portal.

Prerequisites

For more information, see Requirements.

Features

The role upload includes the following functions:

·        You can upload roles (single roles and composite roles), MiniApps, or Transactions from the SAP backend system to the portal.

·        If you upload roles, you can decide whether or not the services and attributes contained in the roles should also be uploaded. Uploaded services that depend on the role are created in the PCD. This is possible for the following services: SAP MiniApps, SAP transactions, objects from BW systems, IACs and URLs.

·        Single roles are created as either portal roles or worksets with the corresponding menu hierarchy in the PCD, the same as the attributes of the contained services (such as transactions).

·        Composite roles are created as either portal roles or worksets with their corresponding menu hierarchy in the PCD.

·        When objects are uploaded again, you can define whether or not existing objects should be overwritten.

·        User assignments can also be uploaded to the portal.

Related Information

For more information about roles, see the How-to Guide Role Concept in EP 5.0 and 6.0. You can find it at service.sap.com/ep60 ® EP 6.0 (SP2 and earlier) ® How-to Guides ® Current How-to Guides.