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Use

The every user roles shipped with the portal typically provide the non-administrative portal content to all portal users; for example, the portal personalization settings, collaborative tools, and daily task-related iViews (such as calendar and e-mail).

The portal supplies the following out-of-the-box every user roles:

  • Standard User role

  • Every User Core role

This topic describes these roles and provides information about which role you should use for your particular work environment.

Integration

The following figure illustrates the every user roles shipped with the portal. Each role consists of a source object in the reserved Content Provided by SAP folder and a delta link object in the Portal Content folder.

To modify the out-of-the-box roles, edit the delta link objects in the Start of the navigation path Portal Content Next navigation step Portal User End of the navigation path sub-folders only.

Features

  • The Standard User role contains basic portal functionality (such as portal personalization iViews), but also Universal Worklist (UWL) and knowledge management and collaboration (KMC) content objects.

  • The Every User Core role is a reduced version of the Standard User role. It provides only the basic functionality of the portal (portal personalization iViews)-meaning it is more flexible than the Standard User role-and is intended to coexist with other user roles that provide the business-related content.

  • The Every User Core role also contains almost empty Home worksets, which generally serve as a placeholder for merging any external roles with physical content assigned to an identical Home workset.

For information about merging navigation entries, see Merging Navigation Nodes and Defining the Sequence .

For information about the content structure of each role and its location, see:

Activities

Guidelines and Recommendations for Using the Every User Roles

Each every user role is tailored to suit a specific scenario or installation. Use the following guidelines and recommendations to determine which role to implement in your environment:

  • The Every User Core role should be used by new SAP NetWeaver customers, especially the following:

    • CRM 4.0 and CRM BPP customers using the CRM User role, but not using the Standard User role.

    • SAP NetWeaver customers not intending to use the preconfigured business content offering of SAP ( Standard User role).

    • KMC customers.

  • The Standard User role should be used by:

    • Existing SAP NetWeaver customers who are already using this role in their current release.

    • Existing SAP NetWeaver customers who upgraded from a previous release and were already using this role.

    • Customers running the portal on SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment 7.1 (NWCE) (the Every User Core role should not be used since NWCE does not currently offer knowledge management and collaboration capabilities).

Assigning Users to the Every User Roles

Once you have decided which every user roles you need to use, you need to assign your portal users to them.

By default, the Everyone group is assigned to the Standard User role. If you choose to use the Every User Core role instead, you need to remove these assignments from the Standard User role and apply them to the Every User Core role.