topic Re: USER GROUP in Application Development and Automation Discussions

USER GROUP

Former Member — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:02:54 GMT

Hi experts,

what is the use of assigning a user to a user group?can any one tell me why user groups are used?

Regards

Ashok

Re: USER GROUP

Former Member — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:15:15 GMT

Its used for classsifying your User community.

I would take only one of my experiences to explain it rather than giving links..

we used to classify Users on 5-6 areas...

Business users, Non Business users, IT users, Non IT users, Externals, Super Users etc etc... So we can always apply appropriate clasifications for mas activities and would nbe more of a use to mass actions...

Hope it helps.

Br,

Sri

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Re: USER GROUP

Former Member — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:31:55 GMT

User Groups are used for the ease of maintainence and to bunch together users either by the activities they perform or the functional areas they belong to.

This user grouping is suitable for mass maintainence of user data using T-code SU10

Re: USER GROUP

Wolfgang_Janzen — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 22:46:52 GMT

The main purpose is the ability to restrict user administrators: the authorization object S_USR_GRP is called with the "user group" as argument.

Quite often there are "local user administrators": they can only administer "their" group of users.

Regards, Wolfgang

Re: USER GROUP

Former Member — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 05:40:49 GMT

As an administrator, you control who has access to applications by creating users and providing these users with a means of authenticating themselves to an application. To simplify user administration, users can be collected in groups according to criteria such as the users’ function in a company or the department they work in.

Re: USER GROUP

manohar_kappala2 — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 06:59:55 GMT

Hi,

User groups are of two types.

1)one is for classification of Users( see tab Groups in SU01)

2)second classification of users for authorization control (see the USer Group in Logon Details Page).

First one will allow to group the users without controlling the access to the users while the later controls access based on what you have in S_USER_GRP Auth Obj..

Regards,

Manohr

Re: USER GROUP

Wolfgang_Janzen — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 08:46:14 GMT

Exactly - thanks for clarification, Manohr.

Re: USER GROUP

manohar_kappala2 — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:19:50 GMT

Its my pleasure...

Cheers,

Manohar