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This blog will give the information related to Authorization concept available in SAP BW. Also, steps
are given to maintain report related authorization.
To avoid the unwanted access to various objects as well as data in SAP BW system.
To assign restricted access of data to report users.
Analysis authorization
New standard authorization objects have been added.
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Enter the technical name of authorization object to be created.
Click on Create Authorization (F5)
Maintain Authorizations : Create screen will appear with message in status bar ‘Special
Characteristics Missing’.
Why these special chars are required, see what SAP has to say about it
Fill up short, medium & long text fields.
Click on the button ‘Insert Special Charact.’ as shown below.
New window will pop-up for Infocube Authorizations.
You can specify required infoprovider’s name directly or can use F4 help to get the name of
infoprovider from the list.
As per the reporting requirement user either
Insert Aggregation Authorizations: For the Totals in report, aggregation authorization ‘:’ is
used.
Insert Full Authorizations: It will assign ‘*’.
Once you specify the name of infoprovider and hit enter, list of all authorization relevant
infoobjects, from the given cube/DSO will appear.
Select all the infoobjects from the list using Select All (F7) and hit enter.
All the selected objects will get added as shown below.
Repeat the procedure for all the infoproviders.
As shown in the above screen shot, all infoobjects have value (*) in the intervals field. If you
want to change value for any of the infoobjects, use following steps.
Use Details button to go to the maintenance screen OR
Double click the infoobject to reach the maintenance screen.
In the maintenance screen, 2 options are given.
Value Authorizations: You can specify single, multiple single or range of values.
Hierarchy Authorizations: Hierarchy node values can be assigned.
Value Authrozations.
1st column – Including/Excluding : Specify either I or E to include of exclude the assigned
value.
2nd column – Operator : Specify value from the given list as per your requirement.
3rd & 4th column – Technical Character : Here you have to mention values which are
required for the authorization.
Once you are done by assigning all the required values, click on Save button and exit.
If you make changes in the existing authorization object, on saving it pops up following
message
Select Yes and new changes with old definition will be saved.
Click on Select Hierarchy button to open the hierarchy variant screen.
New window will show the available variants of hierarchy.
Double click on the required variant and Hierarchy variant name will get populated.
Now, detail node needs to be selected. Click on Select Node option.
Select the required node from the list given
Once the values for Hierarchy & Nodes are selected, you have to set Type of
Authorization.
For Type of Authorization following 4 options are given
0 – Only the selected nodes
1 – Subtree below nodes
2 – Subtree below nodes to Level ( Incl. )
3 – Complete hierarchy
4 – Subtree below nodes to ( and Incl. ) Level ( Relative )
Now hit enter and main screen will appear where you can see Hierarchy Node value
with type of authorization maintained.
When you are maintaining hierarchy node value then in the Value Authorizations only
( : ) value needs to be maintained to avoid the error at runtime.
Save the authorization object.