Transferring User Assignments 

Use

SAP NetWeaver Portal offers you a function for distributing defined user assignments to connected ABAP-based systems. You distribute roles to the system that is also responsible for role maintenance.

You must distribute the associated roles before you distribute the user assignments.

Requirements

In order for the distribution of the user assignments to work correctly, the user IDs in the portal must be identical to those in the ABAP-based system:

●      If you already have identical IDs, you do not need to do anything else.

●      If you have different user IDs, you must map the portal users to the ABAP users. For more information, see User Mapping.

The mapped user is always transferred when you transfer the user assignment data.

Another way to make sure that you have identical user IDs is to use the ABAP-based system as the data source for your user data. For more information, see User Management of Application Server ABAP as Data Source.

Procedure

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       1.      In the portal choose System Administration → Permissions → SAP Authorizations.

       2.      Choose the tab Transfer User Assignment.

       3.      Choose the system to which you want to distribute the role-user assignments from the dropdown list. The alias names are displayed in the dropdown list. Select the alias names you maintained for the system in which the assignments are distributed. For more information, see Creating Systems for Role Distribution.

The list of logical systems for which the system you are distributing the assignments to is responsible appears. In contrast to the role distribution, the system does not analyze table WP3ROLESYS to display this list. This data is derived automatically from the ABAP system landscape. For more information, see System Landscape. There is an error message if the logical systems for user assignment are not assigned to the portal. You can find out how the logical systems are assigned to the portal by reading Assigning Logical Systems.

       4.      Specify which user assignments you want to distribute. You have the following options:

○       From a list of roles that have already been transferred, choose those for which the system is to transfer the user assignment.

A screen appears on which you can select the roles whose user assignment you want to transfer. Select the entries and choose Next. A screen appears, on which you can check your transfer settings.

○       Transfer the user assignments for all roles that have already been transferred.

A screen appears on which you can check your transfer settings.

       5.      Check your settings.

The system proposes a name for the report that performs the distribution. You can overwrite this proposal.

       6.      Choose Finish.

This starts the distribution of the user assignments.

       7.      A screen appears which displays the log messages for the role transfer report.

With Stop Transfer you can interrupt the transfer.

With the Display Transfer Reports tab you can display the log files for each executed transfer report again:

○       Decide if you want to display the log files for the role transfer or for user assignments.

○       In the list, select a transfer report and choose Display Report.

Distribution Process with Predefined Settings

You can also save your settings for the transfer under a given name. To do so, choose tab Predefined Transfer Settings and store your settings under a name. You can reuse the settings instead of having to enter all the information again for the next transfer run.

If you use predefined settings, steps 2-6 are omitted. In this case you only perform step 1, go to tab Predefined Transfer Settings and start the transfer from there by selecting the name of the predefined setting and starting the transfer. You can then view the log files, as described in step 7.