Object documentationCredentials

 

A credential in SAP Credentialing comprises a credential type and a credential description. You use credentials in SAP Credentialing to manage the objects that you have to check (certificates or licences). SAP Credentialing provides you with different predefined objects and structures with which you can map a definition, an assignment and a check of the relevant credentials.

Structure

The objects in SAP Credentialing consist of the following elements:

  • Credential Type: The credential types that you create for your application are an important element of the credentialing application . The Credentialing component provides a framework in which you define your own credential types and attributes. Before creating a credentialing application, you should consider which credential types you require. Typical examples of credential type:

    • A license that authorizes you to sign a customer contract

    • A driver's licence that authorizes you to drive a vehicle in a certain vehicle class

    • A certificate that allows you to operate a machine

    You define your credential types in Customizing under Start of the navigation path Incentive and Sales Force Management Next navigation step Credentialing End of the navigation path.

  • Credential Descriptions: Credential descriptions are attributes of credential types describing what the assignment of such a description authorizes the credentials owner to do. This applies only to attributes that are not specifically intended for the owner of a credential.

    Example Example

    A credential description can be used to differentiate between insurance benefits. It indicates, for instance, if the product offers life insurance or health insurance. The relative attributes can then be adapted for the credentials owner, for instance to take account of any country-specific regulations, or whether an insurance agent must be resident in a particular state to be able to sell insurance policies there.

    End of the example.

    The attributes of a credentials description are sorted into check-relevant and non-check-relevant attributes. You can define the credential descriptions in Customizing for Credentialing. You define the attributes yourself, and also if they are check-relevant or not.

    Note Note

    In a credentials check only check-relevant attributes can be queried.

    End of the note.

    The following check-relevant attribute is part of the standard delivery of SAP Credentialing and it is automatically included in all credential descriptions: Indicator is invalid.

    Caution Caution

    You can only use this indicator if you have defined the credential descriptions with the standard procedure as described in the system.

    End of the caution.

    This indicator can render a credential description (and consequently all the linked assignments) invalid, even if it is time-dependent. The check of check-relevant attributes at runtime is optional and it can be configured. If you are not sure whether an attribute is relevant for a check, you should classify it as check-relevant. You decide whether a field is check-relevant or not in the Application Construction in Customizing for Incentive and Sales Force Management under Start of the navigation path General Application Modeling and Administration Next navigation step Design Adjustment End of the navigation path. The check-relevant attributes are assigned to other structures than the non-check-relevant attributes.

  • Credential Assignments: When you have assigned a credential type one or more credential description, you can then assign it business partners. Only the central business partner is supported. The assignments of credential descriptions also have check-relevant and non-check-relevant attributes that you must define yourself. These should be attributes that are specifically intended for the assignment to a special business partner.

    Example Example

    An example of a check-relevant attribute for an assignment to a busines partner is a driver's license that requires the owner to wear glasses when driving. An example of a non-check-relevant attribute is the issuing authority.

    End of the example.

    Note that credentialing applications currently do not support the checking of check-relevant attributes of credential assignments. However you can implement your own check with the BAdI CRD_SIMPLERQMNT that is intended for this purpose.

  • Referencing Credentials: Referencing credentials inherits part of their attributes from another credential type. The credentialing component lets you map these relationships (see Referencing Credentials).