Maintaining User Defaults and Options 

Both system administrators and individual users can maintain user data.

The system administrator can maintain all data (see Creating and Maintaining User Master Records).

Users can maintain the following user data: Constants, Addresses and Parameters.

The following sections summarize the user options which you can define.

Maintaining Own User Data

Users can maintain their own data by choosing System ® User profile ® Own data.

Choose F1 to display field help. F4 displays the input values that are available.

Defaults

You can set the following defaults:

You can specify the name of an area menu from the possible entries help in this field. The SAP Menu then only contains the components of this area menu.

A user needs the credit management transactions for his or her daily work. If the start menu in his or her user data is FRMN, the SAP Menu only contains the credit management transactions.

The systemwide initial menu can be specified in the transaction SSM2.

The default system language at logon. The user can however choose another language on the logon screen

Information about these default values is available if you choose F1.

User Address

The user address data fields are self-explanatory.

Only the system administrator can maintain company addresses.

A time zone is assigned to each company address. User-specific time zones can overlap company time zones (see Defaults above).

Parameters

User parameters supply defaults to R/3 fields. If a field is indicated, the system automatically fills in the default value. Depending on the field definition, the entry can also be replaced with a value entered by the user.

The two input fields on the parameter maintenance screen are described briefly below. Further information is available by choosing F1 .