Portal Roles

In SAP Enterprise Portal, roles are only indirectly linked to authorization. Portal roles group together the portal content required by users with a certain role in the company. In addition, the role structure defines the navigation structure that a user sees in the portal. Users and groups assigned to a role inherit the permissions of the role. By default, this is end user permission.

For more information about the roles shipped with the portal, see Understanding Preconfigured Portal Roles .

After installation, the following preconfigured roles are assigned to the following standard groups:

Role	Assigned to Groups
Super Admin	Administrators
Standard User	Administrators

Note

The Super Admin role has access to all content and objects in the portal and these permissions cannot be deleted or modified. Because this role has such extensive permissions, we recommend not to assign users to this role for normal daily administration. We recommend that only one user account should be assigned to this role. All other administrator users should be assigned a subset of administrative tasks and these users should be used for daily administration.
For more information about delegating administrative tasks to a number of users, see Administration Roles and Delegating Administration Tasks .
We recommend that after installation you assign the Standard User role to the default group Everyone. If this group does not have a role assigned to it, some users may not have a role assigned to them and, as a result, see a blank page when they log on to the portal.