Field groups are used to group together fields in the customer master which are handled identically with regard to authorization assignment. If a user has the authorization for one or more field groups, he/she can change all fields of this/these authorization group(s).
When dividing the fields into field groups, please note that the change authorization either applies to all or no fields of a group. On the other hand, no check is carried out when creating and displaying.
Authorizations for field groups are maintained using the object F_KNA1_AEN (Financial Accounting).
Example
A user has the general authorization for maintaining customer master records in SD. Using the field group, this authorization can be controlled more precisely. It may define that a user may only change certain fields - namely, the fields of the field group.
Once you have defined your field groups and have assigned the fields to these groups, you have to use the above authorization object to include the field groups. Aditionally, the BASIS guys would do the following afterwards
define authorizations for the authorization objects.
group authorization objects together in profiles.
create user master records.
specify the respective profiles.
Hope this helps.
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