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 Creation and Assignment of Visibility Control Profiles

Use

You can use this function to create visibility control profiles, which you can use to control the visibility of master data and transaction data in the SNI Monitor for users and business partners. You use this function to assign the profiles to users or business partners. You use visibility control profiles if you are working with a profile- and parameter-based visibility concept in the SNI Monitor.

Prerequisites

In Customizing for Supply Network Collaboration , you have adopted the standard selection mode TSDM_INV_C for the SNI Monitor, by choosing Start of the navigation path Basic Settings Next navigation step Visibility Next navigation step Create Selection Modes End of the navigation path , or you are using a different profile-based selection mode. If you want to use a different profile-based selection mode, you have assigned it to the SNI application in the IMG activity Set Selection Mode of an Application .

Recommendation Recommendation

We recommend that you use the standard selection mode.

End of the recommendation.

Features

Definition of Visibility Control Profiles

You can create visibility control profiles and assign users and business partners. In a profile, you can control the visibility of data in the following ways:

  • Restrict visibility to specific master data, such as locations, products, or suppliers

  • Restrict the visibility through the parameters Assigned Partner , Data-Providing Partner , and Owner

    You can use these parameters to restrict the visibility of the data even further. For example, if you enter the parameter Owner and a business partner A , you can ensure that a user with this visibility control profile can only see the master data and transaction data for which business partner A is the owner. For more information, see the field help.

Assignment of Visibility Control Profiles

You can assign one or more visibility control profiles to a user or business partner, and delete assignments that are not needed. You can do this by using the following functions:

  • With the Application Data ID field, you restrict the visibility control profile to selected Web UIs. Note that you can only select application data IDs for SNI (technical name: SNI… ).

  • You can restrict the validity of the profile to a time period.

  • You can use the Execute function to display all visibility control profiles that are assigned to a user or business partner within a validity period.

  • You can use the User/Prtnr's Own Data Visible indicator to determine the following: If a user is assigned to a business partner, he or she is allowed to display all products that lie in locations belonging to his or her assigned business partner. You can set this indicator to allow a user to access his or her own data without you first having to define a profile.

Note the following ranking sequence when you create visibility control profiles:

  • Settings in a visibility control profile for a user of a business partner override the settings in a visibility control profile for a business partner.

  • Settings in a visibility control profile for an SNI application override the settings in a visibility control profile that is valid for all SNI applications.

Displaying Visible Data

You can use the Visible Data function to obtain an overview of which data is displayed to a user or business partner who has the specified profiles.