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With the Mass Changes function (transaction SU10), you can perform most of the changes that you can make for individual users in user maintenance for user groups; that is certain sets of users. This applies for Logon data, Defaults, Parameters, Roles, and Profiles.

The mass change functions apply to all of the users displayed in the initial screen unless you make a selection.

Caution

You must choose Change in the Address, Logon data and Constants tab pages for each change. In this way, you can ensure that your changes, such as the deletion of a field’s contents are accepted for the corresponding fields.

Mass Maintenance Functions

Function

Comment

Select users

Used to select a set of users that have a particular characteristic with the User Information System. You can then process this set of users with the other mass maintenance functions.

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       1.      Choose Address or Authorization data.

       2.      Specify a selection criterion.

       3.      Select some or all users in the result list and choose Copy.

You have transferred a subset of the users that exist in the system to mass maintenance and can now process these with the other mass maintenance functions.

Create users

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       1.      Enter the names of the users to be created in the User column.

       2.      Choose Create This graphic is explained in the accompanying text.

Maintain the user data as in the user maintenance (SU01). For more information, see Creating and Maintaining Users.

Note

You cannot assign individual passwords because you create several users at the same time. They are generated automatically and displayed in the mass changes log.

Changing users

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       1.      Choose Change This graphic is explained in the accompanying text.

       2.      Change the user data. You can decide whether parameters, roles, profiles and groups are added to or removed from the user master records.

Delete users

Choose Delete This graphic is explained in the accompanying text.

Lock/unlock users

Choose Lock (This graphic is explained in the accompanying text) or Unlock (This graphic is explained in the accompanying text).

Note

The users are only locked or unlocked if it is allowed in the current system. If the system is in the Central User Administration, only the central system may be able to lock and unlock. See Setup field distribution parameters.

The functions of the Info and Environment menus correspond to those of user maintenance (see User Maintenance Functions).

Mass changes log

After every mass change, the system shows who made which changes in which system at what time.

The log contains several message levels which you can expand with a pushbutton. If a message has a long text, you can display it with a pushbutton next to the message.

You can make certain settings for the log display under Settings and the Color legend explains the colors used in the display.

You can print the log or save it in a PC file.

Special Features for Central User Administration (CUA).

If you use the Central User Administration, i.e. you make the mass changes from the central system, profiles and roles are displayed system-dependently. For more information, see Distributing users.

 

 

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