Workflow: Remote Role Assignment 

Purpose

This topic describes the basic activities that must be performed by administrators on a producer and consumer portal in order to allow a user administrator on the consumer portal to assign users to remote roles that are defined, configured, and maintained on the producer portal. For detailed information about this content usage mode, see 'Remote Role Assignment' Mode.

Prerequisites

See Prerequisites

Process Flow

The following table lists the sequence of activities performed by administrators on the producer and consumer portals.

Note that some activities need to be performed by the producer before the consumer can proceed and vice versa; while some steps can be performed by the producer and consumer at the same time.

	Producer Task	Consumer Task
1.	Configure user repository (producer-side)	Configure user repository (consumer-side)
2.	Configure proxy settings (producer-side)	Configure proxy settings (consumer-side)
3.	Set up trust with consumer (producer-side)	Set up trust with producer (consumer-side)
4.	a.   Configure your registration password
		b.   Define initial caching configuration  c.   Define initial consumer profile settings
5.	Set user permissions and UME actions to local portal roles
6.		Add a NetWeaver content producer
7.		Check the producer alias
8.		Test the connection to the producer
9.		Register your consumer portal
10.		Assign administrator permissions (to producer object)
11.		Test integrity of remote role assignment configuration (optional)
12.		Assign users to the remote role
13.		Assign end-user permission to producer object
14.	Assign end-user permissions to business users
15.		a.   Optimize your caching configuration  b.   Optimize your consumer profile settings
16.	Map users on the producer (optional)