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Maintain Authorizations

In this step, you determine the authorizations for the authorization object in Personnel Planning and Development (PD). Furthermore, you can see which authorizations are defined for the different functions of the application in the standard system.

When any function in PD is executed, the system checks the authorization object.

Personnel Planning PLOG

This authorization object contains the following fields:

This field defines which plan version(s) the user may access.
This field defines which object types the user may access.
This field defines which infotypes the user may access.
This field specifies which subtypes of the infotypes specified the user may access.
This field specifies the planning status of information which the user may access.
This field defines what editing authorizations the user has, e.g displaying, changing.

Standard Settings

The standard SAP R/3 System contains authorizations for maintenance and display of the authorization object PLOG in the object class Human Resources.

The standard authorizations apply to all organizational units.

Activities

1. Check if the authorizations in the standard R/3 System meet your specific requirements.
Proceed as follows:
a) Select the object class for the application.
A list of the authorization objects in this class is displayed.
b) Select an authorization object.
A list of authorizations for this object is displayed.
2. Create new authorizations according to your requirements if necessary.
Proceed as follows:
a) Choose Authorization -> Create.
b) Enter the authorization and a short text.
c) Select a field to maintain the individual field values.
d) Save your settings.
e) Activate the new authorization.

Further Notes

Structural authorization is defined in addition to this general access protection. Refer to the section "Structural authorization" to make the necessary configurations.