Best Practiced SAP Netweaver Portal

Hi All,
We are trying to determine what should be the breaking point between what the portal dev team handles and what becomes SAP Securities responsibility. We are thinking that security should take it over when assigning IViews to Roles and then Roles to Groups and lastly groups to users. This is a very high view and welcome as much detailed information as you can provide.
Thanks,
Mary Sims

Hi Mary,
I fully agree with John. Portal roles are used to build up navigation. Therefor they define, what a user would see (if he/she would have read permission).
The mapping between user groups and portal roles, the assignment of users to roles and the setting of read permissions on certain iViews (pages) or folders in KM is a different thing. This is a security issue and should be done by security department.
We face this responsibility discussion in all our portal projects. You just have to rethink the word 'role', which normally isn't used for structuring content. This helps clearing up things. But at the end of the day, its an organizational discussion which depends on your internal organization.
At least, I made the experience, that it's best if you assign portal roles to portal groups but use the groups for setting the access control list - not the roles.
Maybe another cent,
Carsten

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