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Process documentation Process of Determining the Period of Responsibility According to the Structural Authorization Check Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

In this process, the system determines the period of responsibility according to the structural authorization check. This process is described by means of examples.

See Structural Profiles for detailed information about the structural authorization check.

Note

If you use a combination of general and structural authorization check, an intersection of the periods of responsibility from the structural authorization check and the organizational assignment (evaluation of the data from the Organizational Assignment infotype for the P_ORGIN, P_ORGXX and P_NNNNN authorization objects) is transferred to the time logic of the general authorization check.

Call Parameters

The determination of the period of responsibility is called up using the following parameters:

 

Assume for all examples that the user has been assigned a structural authorization profile with the following characteristics using table T77UA (User Authorizations) and table T77PR (Definition of Authorization Profiles):

Process Flow

The system performs all the following steps of this process.

The following three examples illustrate the process of period determination in the structural authorization check:

Example 1: The personnel number is located as follows in an organizational structure:

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Assume today’s date is February 6, 2001.

Example 1a: <BLANK> ( = All) is entered as the period. When evaluating the structure, the system first follows the relationships and forms intersections. The system starts with the period January 1, 1900 – December 31, 9999. After the first relationship (O1 ® O2) has been evaluated, January 1, 2000 – December 31, 9999 is initially returned as the period of responsibility. The second relationship (O2 ® S) returns January 1, 2000 – December 31, 2002 as the period. The last relationship (S ® P) covers this period and January 1, .2000 – December 31, 2002 remains the period of responsibility. In other words, the system "arrives" at the personnel number with a full period of responsibility. Once this has been successfully checked, the validity period of the last relationship is always used as the period of responsibility, which would be the period January 1, 1995 – December 31, 2005 in this example.

Example 1b: Y ( = current year) is entered as the period. In contrast to example 1a, the system starts with the period January 1, 2001 – December 31, 2001 to determine the period of responsibility. Since all of the relationships affected cover this period, the period January 1, 2001 – December 31, 2001 is still the intersection for personnel number P. The period of responsibility is then determined, as in example 1a, from the period of responsibility of the last relationship, which is the period January 1, 1995 – December 31, 2005.

Example 2: The personnel number is located as follows in the organizational structure:

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Assume today’s date is February 6, 2001.

D ( = key date) is entered as the period. The system starts with February 6, 2001 and cannot, therefore, move from O1 to O2. However, the system can reach P from O1 via S3. Therefore, the period of the last relationship (S3 ® P) is used as the period of responsibility, which is January 1, 2001 – December 31, 2010 in this example.

Example 3: The personnel number is located as follows in the organizational structure:

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Assume today’s date is February 6, 2001.

The following periods of responsibility are determined depending on the settings of the period:

Period Setting

Period of Responsibility

<BLANK> (= all)

01.01.1999 – 12.31.1999 and 01.01.2002 – 12.31.2002

D (= key date)

no period

M ( = current month):

no period

Y ( = current year):

no period

P ( = past):

01.01.1999 – 12.31.1999

F ( = future):

01.01.2002 – 12.31.2002

 

 

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