How To Create Users, Team and Task Profiles in BPC 10.0: 26 September 2013
How To Create Users, Team and Task Profiles in BPC 10.0: 26 September 2013
How To Create Users, Team and Task Profiles in BPC 10.0: 26 September 2013
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26 September 2013 |
BW/BI
Anika Gupta |
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SAP Authorizations,SAP
This article gives overview of security settings which can be done in Business Planning and Consolidation 10.0
.It describes how a team, task profile and data access profile can be created and how BPC security can be
managed.
Introduction
SAP Business Objects Planning and Consolidation (a component of SAP Business Objects EPM portfolio) is an
application dedicated to financial processes on a unified platform. Owned by the business and designed for the
end user, it is the target environment to support planning, consolidation and financial reporting, through unique
functionalities like Business Process Flow and tight Microsoft Office integration.
It uses Enterprise Performance Management to enable reporting and planning. Like other SAP components, this
also needs to be secured to enable access only to authorized users and to relevant functionalities.
Security Terminology
Following needs to be set up to enable authorization restriction:
User:
End users of the application. BPC users require an SAP BW named account with specific access.
Tasks:
Specific application level access right/permissions. E.g. Manage Environments, View Environments, Manage
Security, etc.
Task Profile:
A collection of granted tasks. A Task Profile determines what type of activities or tasks a user or team can
perform in BPC.
A collection of read, writes, or denies member access rights to each dimension of the model.
Team:
A group of users with a common task profile and data access profile. A team can have a team lead who have
special access rights to the Teams folder
Environment:
It is a shell or BPC client in which all configuration and data reside. There can be more than one environment
User Authorization
Users Authorizations is determined by the team assigned.
Team
A Team is a group of users and fairly equivalent to a SAP NetWeaver role. Task Profiles and Member Access
Profiles are assigned to a Team. A team can contain one or more task profile and member access profile. BPC
has Admin team by default. Following are the features of team:
Any team member can be identified as a Team Lead, which provides management access to the
Teams Folder
Select Team on Administration tab and click new. Give the name of team in ID and description in
Description
We can assign a team lead to the team if special access rights to the teams folder have to be given to
some user
Task Profile
A Task Profile determines what type of activities or tasks a user or team can perform in BPC.BPC has 3 task
profiles by default:
Default Task Profiles:
PrimaryAdmin
SecondaryAdmin
SystemAdmin
Select Task Profiles on Administration tab and click new. Give the name of task Profile in ID and
description in Description and click next.
Second step is to map available task Ids to task profile.These task Ids helps to customize the access
which task profile should give the access.For Example, if the team has to be created for audit team, then
task profile should have task id Manage Audit.
Select Data Access Profiles on Administration tab and click new. Give the name of Data
Access Profile in ID and description in Description.
On Member access tab, choose the model. Once chosen select the members and the type of
associated.
Click Save to create the profile.
Team, together with Task Profile and Data Access profile will give necessary access to the
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user.
Users
BPC uses Dialog users .Users should be present in BI ABAP system and should have flex client and UM user
roles which are mentioned at the end of this document. Users can be added, modified and deleted.
Deletion will only delete users from BPC but will not delete from ABAP System.
Select Users on Administration tab and click Add. Select the user by searching the user
name and click on Add.
Click on next. Assign the team which you want to assign the user. Click Next
User Authentication
Users action can be restricted using task profiles and data access profiles. Task profiles define what type of
activities or tasks a user or a team of users can perform. Data access profiles define the specific models and
data within the models to which users have access.
To access BPC portal, user should have following roles in BW ABAP system:
POA/BUI_FLEX_CLIENT: A role that is required to start the Flex client..It includes authorization
object /POA/A_RST.
/POA/BUI_UM_USER: A role that is required to work with user management in particular for retrieving
roles and user information.