Referencing Credentials
A "referencing" credential inherits part of its attributes from another credential. SAP Credentialing lets you map these relationships. A credential is referred to as referencing if it has inherited its attributes. A "referenced" credential type imparts its attributes to another credential type.
Integration
A referencing credential can only exist if relationships between credential types already exist. Any credential type can be used as a referenced credential type, and any number of credential types can reference it. On the other hand, a referencing credential type can only reference one single credential type. Hierarchies cannot be mapped: a referencing credential type cannot pass on its attributes itself.
Referencing credential types inherit attributes from referenced credential types. This takes place in the credential descriptions:
For each inheriting credential type, a fixed amount of attributes must be determined that are derived from the check-relevant attributes of the descriptions of the inheriting credential type.
The descriptions of the referencing credential type have a description of the referenced credential as an attribute and adopt from this description the values of the previously determined attributes as a reference.
Only check-relevant attributes can be inherited.
Attributes of the credential assignments cannot be inherited. The only exception is the maximum validity period, which is automatically inherited (but it can be restricted).
Inherited attributes are always check-relevant.
If a business partner is to be assigned a description of a referencing credential type, there must be a reference to a suitable existing assignment of a referenced credential type. This assignment is the source of the inherited attribute of the credential type.