Deleting role from BP

Question

Hi Experts,
I am using CRM 4.0.
I have mistakenly assigned a role to a BP and i have saved it.
How can I remove/delete this role from the BP.?
Please help.
Many thanks,
Neeraj

Answer 1

Hi,
Actually you should not be deleting a role assigned to the BP. Here is the explanation.
Explanations and reasons are following:
1. Role is not a characteristic of BP, and not also not a field value which can be stored and changed.
2. Technically, Role is a dynamical link to the group of BP subscreens in
    the table BUT100, this is an only place where this Role is presented
    physically.
3. This value is not shown anywhere, and used only by a
    transaction BP for internal purposes.
4. But even after usage of some solution for doing it, nothing can prevent
   automatical detection. That means, if you maintain some BP data, which
   is enough for some particular role, this role will be marked as
   maintained anyway.
5. This is not an only side effect, which can not be resolved. Kindly
    remember, that actual BP Data is not changed by changing a Role. That
    means, that after deleting of a Role, which provides an access to some
    Role-specific data, this data won't be deleted, just hided from user in
    transaction BP.
In this case, when some program will request for this data, it will
receive it without a problem, and potentially this program can determine
this BP incorrectly.
Also, when somebody switch a Role for this BP to the "deleted", already maintained data will "suddenly" appear. The same can happen, if this data is shared between several BP Roles (like Sales Area data for Ship-to party and Sold-to Party) - after switching to another Role, data
for "deleted" Role will appear again.
If you need further information kindly refer to note 596334.
Hope this helps.
Venkat