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You can use authorization templates when creating roles with the profile generator. These templates contain authorizations for roles and user tasks that have been defined for BW. Each user role includes the authorizations required for performing basic user tasks.

You are automatically offered the available templates when you edit a new role. You can also refer back to the templates when changing an existing role.

Features

The templates for BW user roles start with S_RS_R, with the exception of the roles for Business Planning, which start with S_RS_PL. The templates for BW user roles start with S_RS_T. Data mining templates begin with S_RS_DME.

In BW, the following roles are pre-set and can be used as templates for generating profiles:

  1. S_RS_RDEAD: BW Role: BW Administrator (development system)

    The tasks of the BW administrator in the development system comprise:

    • Maintaining the source system and uploading metadata

    • Executing queries for the statistics InfoCube

    • Maintaining aggregates

    • Maintaining analysis authorizations

    • Scheduling broadcast settings

    • Maintaining currency and quantity conversion types as well as key date derivation types

  2. S_RS_ROPAD: BW Role: BW Administrator (productive system)

    The BW Administrator in the productive system is mainly responsible for maintaining the connection to the source system and executing queries for the statistics InfoCube.

  3. S_RS_RDEMO: BW Role: Modeler (development system)

    The BW modeler creates the data model in the development system. The tasks of the Modeler in the development system comprise:

    • Defining the InfoObjects, InfoProvider, transformation rules, data transfer process, and process chains

    • Scheduling broadcast settings

    • Maintaining currency and quantity conversion types as well as key date derivation types

  4. S_RS_ROPOP: BW Role: Operator (productive system)

    The tasks of the BW operator in the productive system comprise:

    • Uploading data from the source system

    • Executing data transfer processes

    • Monitoring processes

  5. S_RS_RREDE: BW Role: Reporting Developer (development system)

    The tasks of the reporting developer in the development system comprise:

    • Designing queries, reports and Web applications

    • Maintaining analysis authorizations and their assignments to roles

    • Scheduling broadcast settings

    • Maintaining currency and quantity conversion types as well as key date derivation types

  6. S_RS_RREPU: BW Role: Reporting User

    The reporting user executes queries in BEx Analyzer or in the Web.

The following roles have been predefined for business planning:

  1. S_RS_PL_PLANMOD_D: BW Role: Planning Modeler (development system)

    The tasks of the modeler in the development system comprise:

    • Defining aggregation levels

    • Defining data slices and characteristic relationships

    • Defining planning functions, planning sequences and planning function types

    • Defining queries and Web applications

  2. S_RS_PL_ADMIN: BW Role: Planning administrator

    The administrator's tasks comprise:

    • Defining data slices

    • Executing planning functions and planning sequences

  3. S_RS_PL_PLANNER: BW Role: Planner

    The planner's tasks comprise:

    • Displaying plan data in queries and Web applications

    • Manually entering data in queries that are ready for input

    • Executing planning functions and planning sequences

The following roles are assigned for BW Workspaces:

  1. S_RS_TWSPA BW Workspace Administrator: The BW Workspace Administrator creates BW Workspaces, defines their properties, make central data available in them and manages the BW Workspaces.

  2. S_RS_TWSPD BW Workspace Designer: The user for BW Workspace Designer (business user) can load personal data into the Workspace and then create CompositeProviders.

  3. S_RS_TWSPQ BW Workspace Query User: The BW Workspace Query User can execute queries on CompositeProviders.

The following roles have been predefined for data mining:

  1. S_RS_DME_AUTH_DISP Data Mining: Display User

    The display user has the authorization to view data mining models and their results.

  2. S_RS_DME_AUTH_MNT Data Mining: Administrator

    The data mining administrator has the authorization to create, change and delete data mining models. S/he can perform operations such as training, simulation and evaluation, and uploading the results into the system.

By choosing Start of the navigation path Utilities  Next navigation step Templates  End of the navigation path in Role Maintenance, you can display and copy SAP templates and create your own. To do this, you need the User Master Data Maintenance: User Groups authorization (S_USER_GRP) with * entered in the CLASS and ACTVT fields. The names of SAP templates begin S. The names of templates that you create yourself cannot begin with S.

You can edit authorizations from the templates in Role Maintenance.