E-Commerce with UME  

Use

When you use the User Management Engine (UME) with your E-Commerce application, the case may occur that you have to store your data in different systems. As mentioned in the E-Commerce logon procedure with UME documentation it is possible that the UME is based on a different database to your E-Commerce application. However, you must make sure that both applications have copies of all necessary user data, irregardless of in which system it was originally created and stored.

In principle, there are two different scenarios for storing user data:

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·        UMEuses the SAP E-Commerce user base in the backend system as its own user base. For example, UME and SAP E-Commerce are configured against the same SAP backend server.

This scenario is relatively easy to configure because changes made by one of the applications (for example, E-Commerce Web-based User Management) are directly available within the other application (UME). However, it has the consequence that all users, not only the SAP E-Commerce users, have to be created and maintained in the backend system.

·        UMEuser base and SAP E-Commerce user base are separate. For example UME is connected against a portal database and SAP E-Commerce is configured against a SAP backend system.  

This means that you have to synchronize the two user bases simultaneously. You have to configure the SAP E-Commerce Web-based User Management application by choosing a specific base configuration in the Extended Configuration Management (XCM) application. In addition, you have to define mappings between the roles for Web shop users and the UMEroles.

Irregardless of how and where the user data is stored, the users have to use the SU01 user ID for the logon process and not the SU01 user alias, because on then is a logon using and SSO ticket possible. During user creation in the Web-based User Management application the system creates the SU01 user with the user ID as this is what you have configured in the usertype parameter in the XCM tool.

For detailed installation and configuration of this scenario, see SAP Note 713472.

For more information on UME, see the User Management Engine (UME) documentation.