Setup of Catalogs, Groups, and Roles in the SAP Fiori Launchpad

SAP Fiori launchpad is the access point to apps on mobile or desktop devices. The apps are organized through the entities displayed in the following graphic and explained in the following text:

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SAP Fiori Launchpad: Content Concept

Catalog: Set of apps you want to make available for one role. Depending on the role and the catalog assigned to the role, the user can browse through the catalog, choose apps from this catalog, and add them to the entry page of the SAP Fiori launchpad.
Technically, apps are represented by the following:
- KPI tiles to launch the app
- App launcher tiles to launch the app.
  
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  App launchers exist exclusively for those apps that can be accessed directly from the entry page of the SAP Fiori launchpad. Fact sheets, for example, do not have any app launchers.
  
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- Target mappings referencing the actual navigation targets. The navigation targets are SAP UI5 applications defined in transaction LPD_CUST in the SAP GUI of the front-end server.
Group: Subset of catalog that contains the apps visible on the SAP Fiori launchpad entry page. Which tiles are displayed on a user’s entry page depends on the group assigned to the user’s role. In addition, the user can personalize the entry page by adding or removing apps to pre-delivered groups or self-defined groups.
Roles (PFCG): Contains references to catalogs and groups and provides users with access to the apps in these groups and catalogs.

The entities delivered by SAP are divided into technical entities and business entities:

Technical catalogs and technical PFCG roles
Contain apps per component.
Business catalogs, business catalog groups, and business PFCG roles
Contain apps for a specific role.

The catalogs, groups, and roles required for each of the SAP Fiori apps are listed in the app-specific documentation in the section SAP Fiori Apps.

Entities in the SAP Fiori Launchpad

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The abbreviations in brackets behind the entities’ names are used as identifiers in the technical names of the actual object instances. For example, a business PFCG role in Sales and Distribution has the technical name SAP_SD_BCR_FIELDSALESREP.

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Technical Catalog (TC)

Technical catalogs contain all target mappings and app launcher tiles relevant for an application, for example, SD or SAP SRM. As an administrator, you can use them as a repository to create your own role-specific business catalogs.

Technical PFCG Role (TCR)

Technical PFCG roles contain references to technical catalogs, and they allow users to access the apps contained in these catalogs.

Business Catalog (BC)

Business catalogs contain a sample collection of target mappings and app launcher tiles relevant for a business role.

The content of the business catalog is a subset of the content of the technical catalog. This subset reflects the authorization requirements of a certain business user.

Business Catalog Group (BCG)

Business catalog groups contain a set of applications from a business catalog that are displayed to a user by default on the entry page of the SAP Fiori launchpad. Users can adjust groups by adding or removing apps.

Business PFCG Role (BCR)

A business PFCG role contains references to business catalogs and business catalog groups. Once you – as an administrator – assign the business PFCG role to a user, the user sees the apps included in the business catalog group on the entry page of the SAP Fiori launchpad.

Through the business catalog referenced, users have access to further relevant role-specific apps. The user can select the apps from the catalog to make them available directly on the entry page.

PFCG Role Assignment

For more information about how to assign the catalogs, groups, and required authorizations via PFCG roles to users, see Setup of Roles.

Activities

Use the technical catalogs delivered by SAP as repositories to create your own catalogs as an administrator. To display specific apps to a user by default in the entry page of the SAP Fiori launchpad, create a group. Then add apps from your catalog to the group.

Both the catalog and the group must be assigned to users. Do this by assigning groups and catalogs to users’ PFCG roles.

The business PFCG roles with the assigned catalogs and groups serve as examples based on which you can create your own business catalogs, groups, and roles.

More Information

For more information, see the following documentation:

For SAP NetWeaver 7.31, see SAP Library for User Interface Add-On 1.0 on SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com/nw-uiaddon Application Help SAP Fiori Launchpad Using the Launchpad Designer Setting Up Catalogs, Tiles, and Groups .
For SAP NetWeaver 7.4, see SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com/nw74 Application Help UI Technologies in SAP NetWeaver SAP Fiori Launchpad Using the Launchpad Designer Setting Up Catalogs, Tiles, and Groups .