Type of users needed to view reports in portal

[former_member200353]

HI gurus,

I am planning to grant acces to bw reports to some portal users.

The portal users only would visualize iviews based on reports and or querys and will nbot interact with the bw backend system.

I am trying to avoid to create a user in the bw system for each portal user who need to consult the reports because of the sap license cost, but I do not have any idea how to map several portal users to one bw user?

Any idea or help will be welcome.

thanx in advance.

[Former Member]

Only by creating roles are you able to assign different pieces of content

to different groups of users.

First Create a User Group and put your Content in that group, the create a role and assign this group to that perticular Role.

A role is a container for applications and

information that can be assigned to a

particular group of users.

1 The content of a role enables users to perform

the tasks in their respective job description.

2 The content of a role is based on the company

structure and on the information needs of the

portal users in the company.

3 The portal navigation structure is defined by

the sum of the roles assigned to the user.

4 Technically, a role is a hierarchy of folders

containing other portal content objects.

5 Roles can be assigned to users or groups of

users, i.e. the portal role connects users (or

groups of users) to the portal content.

What are Worksets?

1 A role usually consists of one or more

worksets that bundle applications and

information.

2 A workset is a collection of applications

and information that belong together from

a semantic point of view because they are

part of the same activity area (e.g.

controlling or budgeting) of a user.

3 Whereas a role is based on global

company structures, a workset is based on

user-specific tasks or activities (for

example, u201CMy Budgetu201D or u201CMy Staffu201D are

worksets in the u201CManageru201D role).

3 Worksets are building blocks for roles:

One workset can be used within several

roles, and one role can consist of several

worksets.

5 Technically, a workset is a hierarchy of

folders that contains other portal content

objects.

6 Worksets cannot be assigned to users

(only roles can be assigned to users).

Relationship Between Roles and Worksets: Example

Role : Sales Manager

Workset : Budget

Activities : Monitoring

Planning

Approving

Forecasting

Role : Sales Manager

Workset : Team Leader

Activities : Activity assignment

Hiring

Communication

so... Role will contain the Worksets and Work sets Contain the Activities...

Order is like this...

In Portal Content(Portal ContentDirectory)

-Roles

-Pages

-Worksets

-iViews

hope its clear how to create roles concept in EP.

Thank you ,

Kalyan.

[ChandranGanesan]

[Hello ,|http://chandranonline.blogspot.com]

Create a Role for the Portal with the required access and then assign all the users to this Role.

[Thanks|http://chandranonline.blogspot.com] [Chandran|http://chandranonline.blogspot.com]