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Role vs Activity group

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Hi,

Would like to know the difference (if any) between ROLE and ACTIVITY GROUP. Wondering , if ACTIVITY GROUP was in 4.6B and it is now called as ROLE in 4.7?

I could see this diff in PFCG - Authorization tab details.

Thanks,

Sam

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Essentially no.

I think the original choice of wording for AGR was from the idea that the various activity types for auth objects could be populated for a generatable AGR and the admin would only need to add the org elements and * into anything that seemed peripheral.

Being able to tie in multiple transactions, observing the size of the authorization buffers and realizing the potential benefit of making an AGR a process oriented AGR so that business people could relate to it, SAP switched the label to "Role" and made a few technical adjustments.

Of course, this is just speculation on my part.

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It was called "ACTIVITY GROUP" for Releases < 4.6B.

For higher releases it is called "Role".

Difference: With roles, you can add now Role specific User-Menues where with activity groups you couldn't.