BW and Position-Based Security

[Former Member]

I'm looking into the ability to provide SAP Role Assignment using Position-Based security specifically in BW / BI.

This is normally done in R/3 using Org Management in transaction code PFCG.

Is this a possibility in BI and what are the considerations/challenges?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[former_member248712]

May be the SAP BW HR Structural Authorization Document will be helpful

[BW/HR Authorizations|https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/business-intelligence/a-c/bw_hr%20authorization%20-%20asap%20for%20bw%20accelerator]

AB

[Former Member]

Hi,

Use the characterstic values like Position,employee,job,..,etc and mark them as authorization relevenat(RSD1 Tcode) later on reporting auth objects are created and are mapped to InfoCubes.

I am not sure with the sequence.Please go through the link.

[Link|https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/1b439590-0201-0010-ea8e-cba686f21f06]

Rakesh

[Former Member]

>

> I'm looking into the ability to provide SAP Role Assignment using Position-Based security specifically in BW / BI.
> This is normally done in R/3 using Org Management in transaction code PFCG.
> Is this a possibility in BI and what are the considerations/challenges?
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Nigel,

I have not tried position based security directly in BI. However, we have design position base security from ECC and assign BI roles automatically. It's the same concept except we are reading the positions from ECC, I think this is better because the HR master records are in ECC.

Technical Details:

1. CUA is required

2. Role requirements - Composite role with a simple role containing a variable pointing to BI.

3. Assign the composite role to a position

4. After running RHPROFL0 and PFUD, the user associated with the position will get the BI roles automatically assigned.

Let me know if you need further clarification.

Regards,

-John N.