Granting Substitution Permissions

Use

You can authorize other users to perform activities on your behalf by setting substitution permissions. Using the substitution permission type Execute, you can - for example - grant permissions to another user to initiate a process on your behalf.

Prerequisites

  • To grant permissions to another user for performing actions on a development object on your behalf, you must have permissions to execute the object (GP.DO.EXECUTE).
  • You can modify only the substitution permissions granted by you. Only users assigned to the GP Administrator or Superuser role can modify the substitution permissions granted by others.
  • You grant permissions for active processes.

Procedure

  1. Launch application Substitution Permissionsusing the following URL:

    http://<host>:<port>/webdynpro/dispatcher/sap.com/caf~eu~gp~ui~perm/AInstSubstPermissions

  2. In step Select Type, leave the default settings unchanged.

    Make sure that the development object type Process is selected.

    1. Choose Next.
  3. In step Choose Object, select the process for which you want to configure substitution permissions. Choose Next.
  4. In step Grant Permissions, proceed as follows:
    1. Choose Add under Grantees to open the user picker tool.
    2. Enter the user, group, or role, to which you want to grant substitution permissions.
    3. Choose Go.
    4. Select an entry from the result list, and choose Add users (respectively, Add groups or Add roles). The entry is added to the list of grantees. If you have added a group or role, all users that belong to it are automatically added to the Granteeslist.
    5. Repeat the procedure for each entry that you want to add. Finally, choose Done.
    6. To complete the procedure, choose Save.

Result

If the substitution permissions have been successfully saved, the grantees will be able to perform the relevant action on behalf of the granter.