HOW MANY ROLES ARE ELGIBLE FOR THE USER

Question

hello gurus,
how many roles can we assign to the user... what is the maximum limit of the roles  and profiles for the user.
thanks in advance!
sri

Answer 1

Dear Srinivas,
About roles it's indeed not to easy to tell..just imagine the scenario:
1. Maximum number of profile is 312 ... (however due to some known bug system reads about 300). So, let's say 300 profile maximum can be assigned to an user
2. Now you can have single ABAP role which generally one-to-one to profile. So, this theory says if you are only assigning single ABAP roles, you can assign maximum 312 (or 300) roles.
3. But, you might also have Composite ABAP role. A composite ABAP role can have one or more Single/Composite ABAP role. So, one Composite ABAP role can correspond to any number of Profile which is determined by number of individual Single roles under than composite role. So, when you are assiging Composite ABAP role, you have to take care underlying number of profiles and make sure total does not exceed 312 (or 300 without note correction)
4. Now, last part of complication (and my favourite one). Sometimes, there is an empty Role which does not have any ABAP authorization assigned to it. But, this type of roles are used to map a authorization role in JAVA system. These roles does not have any Profile (as it does not have any ABAP authorization). Now, that brings my confusion ..What happens you assign 300 ABAP profiles via ABAP Roles and another 20 empty role for JAVA system without profile. You see my point
Hope this clarifies a bit
Cheers !!
Satya.