How to handle authorization assignment in MDM console

Question

How can we assign authorization based on different users role? Is there a function in MDM console? Thanks!

Answer 1

Hi Alfred,
Here I am giving you a small pratice case study to get clear picture of user authentication in MDM
<u>Case:</u>
Table A has five fields F1,F2,F3,F4,F5
User X, User Y, User Z are three MDM user with different roles.
<u>Objective:</u>
User X should have read/write access to all the fields in Table A.
User Y should have only read access to all the fields in Table A.
User Z should have read access to F1,F2 and read/write access to F3,F4,F5 of Table A.
<u>Steps:</u>
1.     Create a role named “For User X”. Got to Tables and Fields tab, select Read/Write radio button for Table A.
2.     Create user “User X” assign the role “For User X” to the user.
3.     Create a role named “For User Y”. Got to Tables and Fields tab, select Read-Only radio button for Table A.
4.     Create user “User Y” assign the role “For User Y” to the user.
5.     Create a role named “For User Z”. Got to Tables and Fields tab, select Read-Only radio button for fields F1,F2, select Read/Write radio buttons for fields F3,F4,F5.
6.     Create user “User Z” assign the role “For User Z” to the user.
7.     Also go to Functions tab, set the permissions like create, delete to the roles.
<u>Testing:</u>
1.     Login to Data Mgr as User X, now you can
2.     Login to Data Mgr as User Y, now you can only read the data. If you try adding/updating/deleting any data it will throw warning message.
3.     Login to Data Mgr as User Z, now you can edit fields F1,F2 but when try to edit F3 or F4 or F5, system will throw warning message.
<u>Creating Masks and assigning to a role:</u>
1.     Login to Data manager as Admin.
2.     Create a mask in the mask table.
3.     Go to main table, right click on the record(s) and add them to the mask. Or do free form search based on hierarchy and add the records to the mask.
4.     Go to Console->Admin->Roles table->select a role say “For User X” -> tables and fields tab->drill down to mask table->select the mask from constraints field.
<u>Testing:</u>
1.     Login to data mgr as User X.
2.     Now you can see the masked records only.
3) Is this action of authorization assignment a little bit same with what we usually do in SAP R/3?
     No idea…
Thanks,
Arun prabhu S