With SAP NetWeaver Business Client (NWBC), you can display information on the client that is mapped to the client using the Role Maintenance ( PFCG) transaction. For this purpose, PFCG as the central repository for all system roles, has been enhanced with additional functions.
The following figure shows how roles configured in transaction PFCG are mapped to the menu structure of NWBC:
Information from transaction PFCG, including some enhancements, is used to set up the menu structure of NWBC. Possible settings in PFCG are described in the following sections:
PFCG Overview
Introduces transaction PFCG and its impact on NWBC. A short description of roles is given, the importance of user settings in transaction User Maintenance ( SU01) is described, as well as the effects of roles on the easy access menu and the NWBC menu structure.
Improvements in PFCG User Interface
Lists the main differences in transaction PFCG between SAP NetWeaver 7.00 SP21 (or higher) and 7.01 SP6 (or higher) versus SAP NetWeaver 7.02 (or higher) systems
Role Description
Provides information on role names, role short texts, and the Description tab page
Menu Options
Describes specific additional menu options for special use cases
Navigation Tree
Explains the settings relevant for NWBC on the Menu tab page
Default Pages and Service Maps
Describes the concepts of default pages and service maps, which cause the content area to be filled with content
Link Collections
Describes the Link Collection option
Single Top Level
Compares two-level navigation with single top-level navigation
Menu
Introduces the functions of additional menu entries as well as enhanced menu entries
Side Panel
Describes how to configure a side panel for a role
Remote Systems
Describes what to do if transactions contained in a role are to be started in a different system
Object-Based Navigation (OBN)
Explains how to set up and use OBN for NWBC
Role Comparison
Describes the role comparison tool that you can use to compare roles and their role menu
Merging of Navigation Trees
Describes how navigation trees of multiple roles are merged
5.2 Improvements in PFCG User Interface
5.6 Default Pages and Service Maps
5.14 Merging of Navigation Trees
For more information about the tools and functions mentioned in the following sections, see:
Role Administration
Role Administration Functions
AS ABAP Authorization Concept
User Administration Functions and Creating and Editing User Master Records
SAP Easy Access
Maintaining Remote Destinations and Establishing a Connection Using a Destination (SM59)
Object-based navigation (OBN) documentation links:
SAP Business Objects
The Business Object Repository
Maintenance of Object Types (BOR)
Creating Object Types (BOR)
Definition of Methods for an Object Type (BOR)
Definition of Method Parameters (BOR)