Authorizations for Selection Criteria
Authorizations for Selection Criteria
Definition
The selection criteria of a query determine which data can be displayed after you have entered it in a workbook.
An authorization check for certain InfoObjects only takes place if an authorization object with this InfoObject was already created in the authorization object class Business Information Warehouse.
As soon as an authorization object is created, only authorized users can select query data.
Use
To decide whether a user should be authorized to work with a query, you should check whether authorization has been given to him/her for all selection criteria.
Essential to the authorization of selection criteria is the authorization object S_RS_ICUBE.
Definitions of authorizations for working with certain InfoCubes must be transported separately.
See:
In general, it is not sufficient to give authorizations for individual InfoObjects (characteristics and key figures), or to check them separately from one another. It more usual that specific authorizations should be given for combinations of characteristics and key figures.
It is therefore feasible that a "Sales Manager" is allowed to view the respective total sales figures for all sales areas, but is only authorized to break down "his/her" area (0001) according to the individual sales personnel. In this case, the following authorizations, which are grouped together, would be created and assigned.
Sales area = *
Sales personnel = :
Key figure = Sales figures
(‘:’ represents the authorization to view the values aggregated with the characteristic.
Sales area = 0001
Sales personnel = *
Key figure = Sales figures
The user frequently uses these "multidimensional" authorities in companies that are regional as well as product-oriented (matrix organization). In this way, you could arrange for the person responsible for the combination of a certain division and a certain sales area to have the exact authorization for the output of the relevant values, without him/her necessarily also having access to the data for the whole division or the whole sales area.
For the procedure, see:
Setting up Reporting Authorizations