Roles, Users, Groups......................

[Former Member]

Hi All,

In our Project all the "CRM Roles" will be available as "Groups" in the Portal.I need to create a Role and assign it to the Group. I have lot of confusion abt the Hierarchy of Users, Roles, Groups. Can anyone tell the Hierarchy of Roles&Groups, Users.

And also for creating the Role , what are needed? What are the Steps to be followed?

How Roles can be moved to Groups?

Plz help me on this ASAP.

Thanks&Regards||

Kumar

[Former Member]

Some simple rules...

Rule1: Users need portal roles before they can do anything in the portal. Users can be assigned to portal roles directly.

Rule2: Users can belong to groups and groups can be assigned to portal roles

Rule3: Roles in ABAP become groups in the portal when your UME has ABAP as a source.

Rule4: Portal roles have nothing to do with ABAP roles.

Rule5: Portal roles are built in the portal using portal content tools. ABAP roles are built in ABAP (transaction PFCG)

Hope this clears things up!

The steps to do user adminisration are well documented - please search SDN for "portal user admin". The steps to create a portal role are also well documented. Please search for "portal role creation".

Cheers

[Former Member]

Hi Kumar

The hierarchy is as follows:

increasing order:

1) IView

2) Page

3) Workset

4) Role

5) Group

For creating a particular role you have to assign any of the above mentioned 1,2 or 3 to a role. A role would be created by right clicking on the particuar folder in the Portal Content in Content Administration.

and than assigning the role to a group.

THanks

Avinash

P.S.

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