Allowing Users to View the Contact Information
of Other Users
Use
Use this procedure to enable business users to view the user profile of other business users of the SAP NetWeaver Application Server (AS) Java. Using a user viewer iView, users can view the following information about other users:
· General information, such as name, telephone number, and e-mail address
· Address, including time zone and preferred language
· Company information
· Customized information (optional)
You can add custom attributes to the user profile for display in the user viewer.
View Options
The user viewer presents the following view options:
● Without URL parameters
If you start the user viewer application without URL parameters, you can search for users to display. The user viewer uses the simple search mechanism of the user management engine (UME).
● With URL parameters
You can use the GET or POST methods to pass the URL parameter userID. Provide the user ID of the AS Java user and the user viewer displays the public information from the user profile as described above.
If the request does not find a user, the user viewer displays the search screen as if no parameters were passed.
Procedure
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1. Determine what custom attributes to show in the user viewer iView.
If you have custom attributes in the user profiles, you can make them viewable in the user viewer.
To make custom attributes visible in the user viewer, edit the UME property ume.admin.public.addattrs.
For more information, see Editing UME Properties.
If you edit the UME property, you must restart the AS Java.
2. Assign the necessary authorizations.
Create a role with the relevant UME action and assign the role to a group of users, such as authenticated users.
○ To enable users to view users in all companies, assign UME.User_Viewer_All_Companies.
○ To enable users to view users in just their own company, assign UME.User_Viewer.
Result
Users with user viewer authorizations can now use the user viewer. You need to determine how users access the user viewer.
Use the following URL:
http://<host>:<port>/webdynpro/dispatcher/sap.com/tc~sec~ume~wd~enduser/UserViewerApp
Example
Uri Kwan has a user in the AS Java with the user ID ukwan.
To look up Uri’s public profile, use the following URL:
http://<host>:<port>/webdynpro/dispatcher/sap.com/tc~sec~ume~wd~enduser/UserViewerApp?userID=ukwan
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