Searching for Business Roles

After you have started the business role Customizing you navigate to the business role search page. Here you can enter your search criteria and start the search. All business roles that correspond to the search criteria are displayed in the result list.

Displaying Business Roles

You can select a business role in the result list by clicking the technical name in the Business Role column. You navigate to the overview page of your selected business role. Here you can see the most important information about your business role, at a glance.

Changing Business Roles

You can change the business role details in the header block by clicking the Edit icon. You can change the information in every assignment block by clicking Edit List. You can use the Clean Up button to delete rows in which the indicator Deleted is set. This means that the corresponding rows are not part of the underlying navigation bar profile any longer, and that these entries are no longer relevant for this business role. You can use the Translate button to translate titles into other languages, for example work center titles in the navigation bar. Save your changes after you have finished changing your business role.

Copying Business Roles

You can copy a business role by clicking the Copy icon either on the search page at the top of the result list or on the overview page. You are asked to confirm that you want to copy all dependent entries of the current business role to the new business role.

Creating New Business Roles

You can create a new business role by clicking New either on the search page at the top of the result list, or on the overview page. You navigate to a page that contains the Business Role Details header block in which you need to enter business role ID, authorization role ID, and navigation bar profile, which are mandatory fields. The content in the assignment blocks depends on the navigation bar profile that you have assigned to your business role in the header block. Save your new business role.

Deleting Business Roles

You can delete an existing business role by clicking the Delete icon either on the search page at the top of the result list, or on the overview page. You can delete more than one business role at once on the overview page.

Adjusting Work Centers

You can set the indicator Visible in Menu to active, if a work center is to be displayed in the navigation bar of your business role. Additionally, you can change the work center title in the Title field. You can change the order of the work centers by using Up and Down.

Adjusting Logical Links

You can set the indicator Visible in Work Center to active, if a logical link is to be displayed on the corresponding work center page. Additionally, you can change the logical link title and the order of logical links on a work center page.

Defining the Sorting of Logical Links

The sorting of logical links on work center pages is in alphabetical order. If you want to change the sorting, you can do so in Customizing for UI Framework under  Technical Role Definition Define Parameters .

Enter a profile, for example PARAMETERS, and assign the parameter WC_LINK_ORDER, which defines the sorting of logical links on work center pages, to that profile. Enter a value of your choice for the parameter WC_LINK_ORDER. For more information about the available values, see the above-mentioned Customizing. Finally, you need to assign the profile, for example PARAMETERS, to your business role in the assignment block Function Profiles.

Adjusting Direct Link Groups

You can set the indicator Visible to active, if a direct link group is to be displayed in the navigation bar of your business role. Additionally, you can change the direct link group title in the Title field. You can change the order of direct link groups by using Up and Down, and assign icons that are displayed in front of the link group title in the navigation bar of your business role.

Adjusting Logical Links

You can set the indicator Visible to active, if a logical link is to be displayed in the corresponding direct link group. Additionally, you can change the logical link title and the order of the logical links in a work center. You can assign icons that are displayed in front of the logical link in the navigation bar of your business role.

Defining Function Profiles

You can find all available function profiles that you can assign to your business role, in Customizing for UI Framework under  Technical Role Definition Define Function Profile .