Explanation of Process Default Roles: Administrator and Owner

Question

HI experts,
I am having some trouble understanding the reason of the existence of the process default roles:
Administrator and Owner.
In the CAF-GP Security guide, it says that the Standard Process Role Administrator can "Maintain process instances using the GP administration tools"; what this means ?
My user has de GP Administration role and it DOESN`T have  the Standard Process Role Administrator from ANY process, and I can maintain ALL the process instances from the Administration workset, I don´t need to have the Standard Process Role Administrator assigned to me.
The same happens with the Standard Process Role Owner ; the Security Guide says the person who is assigned that role can "Maintain process instances"; my question is:  If i assign the "Owner" role to a user that doesn´t have the GP Administrator role and this user wants to "Maintain Process instances" where he has to go? because he won´t have the administration workset !.
Best regards,
Marco.

Answer 1

Hi Marco,
First, check this link: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/d9/273a4209a6ae04e10000000a1550b0/content.htm
That will explain better the role of each role.
Itu2019s important to you understand that each process may have a responsible person (admin or overseer) that will monitor the progress of the process.
And you will have a u201CBASISu201D person that will have the GP Administrator role. This role allow to maintain process (with other kind of operations like terminate, complete step, etc.), maintain background queues, archiving, transport of objects, configurations, schedule and other admin tasks for all GP infrastructure.
Regards,
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