Folder vs workset in roles

HI,
I want to assign a set of iviews/pages to a role. I would like to know what is the best practice to add this objects to a role, i.e.
1. To create a role and create folders under this role and add pages/iviews to this folder
2. To create worksets and add pages/iviews to it and finally to add worksets to a role.
should I use worksets/folders under a role. if both can be used, when should i use which one.
Thank you

Hi Yogi,
if you want to group iViews (for they belong together), you normally create a workset outside a role and add the iViews (as delta links) to the workset and then the workset (as delta link) to the role. This way you can very simply re-use this group in another place instead of putting all iViews again under a role folder.
Role folders are normally only used for building a navigational structure.
For building up the PCD and role content, also see http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/4f/bceaffeb8c114ebef8255b63079c7c/frameset.htm
Hope it helps
Detlev
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