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Reference users

Former Member — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:31:06 GMT

Hi,

In the R/3 4.6c environment, there is an option for creating Reference users (User Administration). I don't find the reference users option in ECC 6.0. Any idea how to create reference users in ECC 6.0 environment? Also in the R/3 4.6c environment it was possible to categorize the user as dialog/background/service etc.. users. I don't find that option in the ECC 6.0 either.

Regards,

Jai

Re: Reference users

Former Member — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:35:23 GMT

By the sound of it, you are either in the child system of a CUA or your access rights in the user administration are such that you cannot create users (or the User Administration access you have is forcing a certain user type).

Re: Reference users

Former Member — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:16:45 GMT

Reference users are also available in ECC 6.0 - it is in the same place - under the "Roles" tab. If I recall correctly there are some slight changes - you can no longer use any type of user as a reference user - it has to be a user type called "reference".

Re: Reference users

Former Member — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:07:07 GMT

JC,

The reference user in the role tab is for adding roles from a reference user. I want to create "the reference user" and I am not able to find the field to flag a user as a reference user.

-Jai

Re: Reference users

Former Member — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:07:45 GMT

Julius,

I have a single instance with sap_all access.

-Jai

Re: Reference users

jurjen_heeck — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:10:06 GMT

It's a user type, SU01, tab "Logon Data", field "User Type"

Re: Reference users

Former Member — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:16:01 GMT

Try transaction SPAU, execute for modifications to transactions, and explore transactions for SU01.

My guess is that you are using a transaction variant for SU01, and there is no intention to maintain the user type (so it will default only to Dialog, for example).

Cheers,

Julius

Re: Reference users

Former Member — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:49:02 GMT

Jaideep,

I mentioned that in my previous post - the user type has to be a "reference" user type.

Just to clarify - if you want to create a user type - "reference" - you need to define it under the logon data - user type "reference", but if you want to use this user as a reference to assign additional rights then you do it under the "roles" tab. ie. User B is the reference user, but user A is the one where I want to give the access from B so then I go to the roles tab and assign user B as the reference user.

Edited by: JC on Jul 16, 2008 9:51 AM

Re: Reference users

Former Member — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:18:50 GMT


> - the user type has to be a "reference"  user type.

It depends. See SAP note 513694, solution # 2.

Cheers,

Julius

Re: Reference users

Former Member — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:29:26 GMT

Yes - quite right, but I had assumed that he had applied this note and the recommendation since he said he was familiar with "reference users" and had used it in 4.6C.