Portal roles and AD-groups

Hi,
anyone that can fill me with info on mapping between portal roles and Active Directory groups.
Thankful for config.help!
Kind regards,
Hilde Bakkemyr

hi,
look at this document.
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/bc72b890-0201-0010-3a8d-e31e3e266893
hope it helps.
regards,
rohin

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Portal roles and Authorization in NW2004s

Hi Gurus,
In earlier Portal implementation of ESS/MSS which was ITS based we used to maintain roles in EP by doing a role upload and maintaining authorizations in the backend R/3 system and if any new changes being made in the role is being distributed to the r/3 system using system administrator -> Permissions -> sap authorization and role distributions are sent to R/3. where we can go to W3PR transaction can create authorization profile for that role there.
Now my question is in ESS/MSS implementation based on Web dynpro how are portal roles and authorization maintained?
please do tell me as to how they are maintained in the NW2004s implementations.
Regards,
Ramesh

plz take a break for few minutes and start.... u will get it..

How do you test portal roles and/or ESS roles if testid is not in LDAP?

We have a process but it is hard to maintain and not very secure. I was wondering how other Security Admins solve this problem.
For examplle, we have users who use ESS, MSS, Adobe Forms and a few other portal roles. And, all of them are using the LDAP to authenticate users.
Our Basis guys have created test ids in the Portal but they need to be asisgned directly to a pernr (on Infotype 0105) in order to obtain the right information in the portal.
I'm curious as to how others maintain this process.
All suggestions and recommendations are welcome.
Thanks,
Penny

If the Basis team has created the test-id on the portal, assign the MSS/ESS role as per the business process
make sure to create the same userid on the backend system and assign the userid to a pernr
Assigning userid to PERNR lot of postings are available to do this please search.
Also I remember at one of my customers project the portal was configured to have "parameter setting" on the portal rather than the backend system.
summary: Userid - UME/LDAP ( Basis already created it in your case )
                              Portal roles ESS/MSS   - assigned to userid
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Browsing Portal Roles and it's mapping details

Hi Friends,
I am developing one webdynpro application displays portal roles in a drop down. Once I click on any of the role it need to display the Users, Worksets, Pages, iViews assigned to that role.
I am using IRole API for that and able to get the portal roles but not the mapping details. I gone through one weblog which browses roles,pages etc from a Dynpage component. But it was not helpful for this application.
Could you guys please tell me how to get the users,worksets,pages,iviews assigned to a particular role.
Thank you in advance.
Sandeep Kumar Bonam

Hi
Could you please let me know the below things.
(1) How you get the object of IPortalComponentRequest and IPortalComponentResponse object inside webdynpro.
(2) How you get the Workset details of the role?
Your quick response would be highly appreciated.
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Anbu.K

Display portal role and content

We have portal support people that support many other users. To support these users with live problems, they need to be able to see the portal navigation and content that their supported users see. They don't need to actually run transactions, they just need to see the content etc. In most cases, these support people do not perform these other roles, so these other tabs (50+) are not on the support people's top-level navigation.
Any thoughts on how to do this? It would be great if some sort of application could dynamically display a role and all it's portal content.
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Kevin

Kevin, There is no out of the box solution for your scenario, check this blog by Prakash Singh : <a href="https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/2080">Click Here</a>
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Provisioning EP roles and user groups through CUP

Hello experts,
I am configuring EP provisioning through CUP.
I created the EP connector as per the instructions in the config guide. But I have not added any parameter values or did any field mapping. I have imported necessary Portal roles.
My EP connector is tested successful. But when I try to provision a role through CUP, I get this error:
Error processing your request, Request no: 4 in stage : NEW_AS11.
In the log it shows, Field Mapping is not set for Application (EP)
But when I go to field mapping, I get this error for EP.
Data retrieval from system XP1 failed : com.virsa.ae.service.ServiceException: com.sap.engine.services.webservices.jaxm.soap.accessor.NestedSOAPException: Unable to create message from source.
I could not find much documentation on fieldmapping.
Are there any steps that I am missing for EP provisioning?
Thanks in advance..
Kee

Thanks for your response.
I have set up the parameters while setting up the EP connector in CUP.
My role search URI is correct but I am not sure about the last three parameters...
ASSIGN_GROUPS:OC sapgroup
ASSIGN_ROLES:OC saprole
CHANGE_USER:OC sapuser
CREATE_USER:OC sapuser
CREATE_USER:password password
DELETE_USER:OC sapuser
LOCK_USER:OC sapuser
LOCK_USER:islocked true
RESET_PASSWORD:OC sapuser
RESET_PASSWORD:password password
ROLESEARCH_URI - http://portalserver name:port number/UserRoleSearchForAEService_5_3/Config1?wsdl&style=document
ROLESEARCH_URI_USERNAME - same user Id I provided for the connector
ROLESEARCH_URI_PASSWORD See your system administrator for the value.
UNLOCK_USER:OC Sapuser
UNLOCK_USER:islocked false
ROLE_DATA_SOURCE -- ROLE.UME_ROLE_PERSISTENCE.un:   ??? What is the role data source?? Is the value that is provided is correct for the UME roles
SCHEMA_ID SAPprincipals   ?? What does this Schema Id mean???
USER_DATA_SOURCE ???? Should we mention the user data source on the Portal system. In our case, it is the LDAP. But what would be the corresponding parameter value for LDAP.
So when I go to field mapping to create one for EP, I get the following error:
Data retrieval from system XP1 failed : com.virsa.ae.service.ServiceException: com.sap.engine.services.webservices.jaxm.soap.accessor.NestedSOAPException: Unable to create message from source.
Log Details:
2009-03-03 14:28:48,055 [SAPEngine_Application_Thread[impl:3]_19] ERROR Error in gettting Field Def
com.virsa.ae.service.ServiceException: com.sap.engine.services.webservices.jaxm.soap.accessor.NestedSOAPException: Unable to create message from source.
     at com.virsa.ae.provisioning.idm.spml.request.SchemaRequest.sendSchemaRequest(SchemaRequest.java:131)
     at com.virsa.ae.provisioning.idm.spml.request.SchemaRequest.getSchemaAttributes(SchemaRequest.java:142)
     at com.virsa.ae.provisioning.idm.spml.request.SchemaRequest.getFieldDefinition(SchemaRequest.java:163)
     at com.virsa.ae.configuration.bo.FieldMappingBO.getSAPFieldDefList(FieldMappingBO.java:126)
     at com.virsa.ae.configuration.actions.LoadFieldMapAction.execute(LoadFieldMapAction.java:56)
     at com.virsa.ae.commons.utils.framework.NavigationEngine.execute(NavigationEngine.java:271)
     at com.virsa.ae.commons.utils.framework.servlet.AEFrameworkServlet.service(AEFrameworkServlet.java:425)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
     at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.runtime.RequestDispatcherImpl.doWork(RequestDispatcherImpl.java:321)
     at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.runtime.RequestDispatcherImpl.forward(RequestDispatcherImpl.java:377)
     at com.virsa.ae.commons.utils.framework.servlet.AEFrameworkServlet.service(AEFrameworkServlet.java:455)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
     at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.HttpHandlerImpl.runServlet(HttpHandlerImpl.java:401)
     at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.HttpHandlerImpl.handleRequest(HttpHandlerImpl.java:266)
     at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.startServlet(RequestAnalizer.java:386)
     at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.startServlet(RequestAnalizer.java:364)
     at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.invokeWebContainer(RequestAnalizer.java:1039)
     at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.handle(RequestAnalizer.java:265)
     at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.Client.handle(Client.java:95)
     at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.Processor.request(Processor.java:175)
     at com.sap.engine.core.service630.context.cluster.session.ApplicationSessionMessageListener.process(ApplicationSessionMessageListener.java:33)
     at com.sap.engine.core.cluster.impl6.session.MessageRunner.run(MessageRunner.java:41)
     at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl3.ActionObject.run(ActionObject.java:37)
     at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
     at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl3.SingleThread.execute(SingleThread.java:102)
     at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl3.SingleThread.run(SingleThread.java:172)
Caused by: com.sap.engine.services.webservices.jaxm.soap.accessor.NestedSOAPException: Unable to create message from source.
     at com.sap.engine.services.webservices.jaxm.soap.SOAPPartImpl.setContent(SOAPPartImpl.java:192)
     at com.sap.engine.services.webservices.jaxm.soap.SOAPMessageImpl.<init>(SOAPMessageImpl.java:83)
     at com.sap.engine.services.webservices.jaxm.soap.MessageFactoryImpl.createMessage(MessageFactoryImpl.java:35)
     at com.virsa.ae.provisioning.idm.spml.request.SchemaRequest.sendSchemaRequest(SchemaRequest.java:118)
     ... 25 more
Caused by: com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.NestedSAXParserException: Fatal Error: com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.ParserException: XMLParser: Bad Attribute value: ' or " expected!(:main:, row:5, col:18)(:main:, row=5, col=18) -> com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.ParserException: XMLParser: Bad Attribute value: ' or " expected!(:main:, row:5, col:18)
     at com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.DOMParser.parse(DOMParser.java:139)
     at com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.DOMParser.parse(DOMParser.java:173)
     at com.sap.engine.services.webservices.jaxm.soap.SOAPPartImpl.parseDocument(SOAPPartImpl.java:221)
     at com.sap.engine.services.webservices.jaxm.soap.SOAPPartImpl.setContent(SOAPPartImpl.java:189)
     ... 28 more
Caused by: com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.ParserException: XMLParser: Bad Attribute value: ' or " expected!(:main:, row:5, col:18)
     at com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.XMLParser.scanAttValue(XMLParser.java:1403)
     at com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.XMLParser.scanAttList(XMLParser.java:1577)
     at com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.XMLParser.scanElement(XMLParser.java:1712)
     at com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.XMLParser.scanContent(XMLParser.java:2442)
     at com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.XMLParser.scanElement(XMLParser.java:1843)
     at com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.XMLParser.scanContent(XMLParser.java:2442)
     at com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.XMLParser.scanElement(XMLParser.java:1843)
     at com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.XMLParser.scanContent(XMLParser.java:2442)
     at com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.XMLParser.scanElement(XMLParser.java:1843)
     at com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.XMLParser.scanDocument(XMLParser.java:2845)
     at com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.XMLParser.parse0(XMLParser.java:231)
     at com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.AbstractXMLParser.parseAndCatchException(AbstractXMLParser.java:145)
     at com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.AbstractXMLParser.parse(AbstractXMLParser.java:160)
     at com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.AbstractXMLParser.parse(AbstractXMLParser.java:261)
     at com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.Parser.parseWithoutSchemaValidationProcessing(Parser.java:280)
     at com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.Parser.parse(Parser.java:342)
     at com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.DOMParser.parse(DOMParser.java:101)
     ... 31 more
2009-03-03 14:28:48,055 [SAPEngine_Application_Thread[impl:3]_19] ERROR com.virsa.ae.service.ServiceException: com.sap.engine.services.webservices.jaxm.soap.accessor.NestedSOAPException: Unable to create message from source.
com.virsa.ae.core.BOException: com.virsa.ae.service.ServiceException: com.sap.engine.services.webservices.jaxm.soap.accessor.NestedSOAPException: Unable to create message from source.
     at com.virsa.ae.configuration.bo.FieldMappingBO.getSAPFieldDefList(FieldMappingBO.java:134)
     at com.virsa.ae.configuration.actions.LoadFieldMapAction.execute(LoadFieldMapAction.java:56)
     at com.virsa.ae.commons.utils.framework.NavigationEngine.execute(NavigationEngine.java:271)
     at com.virsa.ae.commons.utils.framework.servlet.AEFrameworkServlet.service(AEFrameworkServlet.java:425)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
     at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.runtime.RequestDispatcherImpl.doWork(RequestDispatcherImpl.java:321)
     at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.runtime.RequestDispatcherImpl.forward(RequestDispatcherImpl.java:377)
     at com.virsa.ae.commons.utils.framework.servlet.AEFrameworkServlet.service(AEFrameworkServlet.java:455)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
     at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.HttpHandlerImpl.runServlet(HttpHandlerImpl.java:401)
     at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.HttpHandlerImpl.handleRequest(HttpHandlerImpl.java:266)
     at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.startServlet(RequestAnalizer.java:386)
     at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.startServlet(RequestAnalizer.java:364)
     at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.invokeWebContainer(RequestAnalizer.java:1039)
     at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.handle(RequestAnalizer.java:265)
     at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.Client.handle(Client.java:95)
     at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.Processor.request(Processor.java:175)
     at com.sap.engine.core.service630.context.cluster.session.ApplicationSessionMessageListener.process(ApplicationSessionMessageListener.java:33)
     at com.sap.engine.core.cluster.impl6.session.MessageRunner.run(MessageRunner.java:41)
     at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl3.ActionObject.run(ActionObject.java:37)
     at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
     at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl3.SingleThread.execute(SingleThread.java:102)
     at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl3.SingleThread.run(SingleThread.java:172)
Caused by: com.virsa.ae.service.ServiceException: com.sap.engine.services.webservices.jaxm.soap.accessor.NestedSOAPException: Unable to create message from source.
     at com.virsa.ae.provisioning.idm.spml.request.SchemaRequest.sendSchemaRequest(SchemaRequest.java:131)
     at com.virsa.ae.provisioning.idm.spml.request.SchemaRequest.getSchemaAttributes(SchemaRequest.java:142)
     at com.virsa.ae.provisioning.idm.spml.request.SchemaRequest.getFieldDefinition(SchemaRequest.java:163)
     at com.virsa.ae.configuration.bo.FieldMappingBO.getSAPFieldDefList(FieldMappingBO.java:126)
     ... 22 more
Caused by: com.sap.engine.services.webservices.jaxm.soap.accessor.NestedSOAPException: Unable to create message from source.
     at com.sap.engine.services.webservices.jaxm.soap.SOAPPartImpl.setContent(SOAPPartImpl.java:192)
     at com.sap.engine.services.webservices.jaxm.soap.SOAPMessageImpl.<init>(SOAPMessageImpl.java:83)
     at com.sap.engine.services.webservices.jaxm.soap.MessageFactoryImpl.createMessage(MessageFactoryImpl.java:35)
     at com.virsa.ae.provisioning.idm.spml.request.SchemaRequest.sendSchemaRequest(SchemaRequest.java:118)
     ... 25 more
Caused by: com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.NestedSAXParserException: Fatal Error: com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.ParserException: XMLParser: Bad Attribute value: ' or " expected!(:main:, row:5, col:18)(:main:, row=5, col=18) -> com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.ParserException: XMLParser: Bad Attribute value: ' or " expected!(:main:, row:5, col:18)
     at com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.DOMParser.parse(DOMParser.java:139)
     at com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.DOMParser.parse(DOMParser.java:173)
     at com.sap.engine.services.webservices.jaxm.soap.SOAPPartImpl.parseDocument(SOAPPartImpl.java:221)
     at com.sap.engine.services.webservices.jaxm.soap.SOAPPartImpl.setContent(SOAPPartImpl.java:189)
     ... 28 more
Caused by: com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.ParserException: XMLParser: Bad Attribute value: ' or " expected!(:main:, row:5, col:18)
Appreciate your response.
Thanks
Kee

Configuring portal roles and authorizations

I have NW portal 7.3 and UME set to ABAP ECC,
Is it good idea to create groups and assign to developers and users or should they be assigned roles directly ? Will the developer need super admin role ?
Edited by: Jay-Basis on Feb 15, 2012 4:51 PM

Hi,
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Please I need your help, because I need to create a template for a Csutomer in Colombia, and I need develop my skills in understanding Roles on the xRPM portal.
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<removed_by_moderator>??? LOL
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How to transport Associated Group in a Portal Role?

Hi,
I created a portal role which is contained in a folder X under Portal Content. This portal role is associated with a particular ABAP menu-role by means of Assigned Groups. When I transported the folder X with all dependent objects from Dev to QA, the portal role appeared but the Assigned Groups is empty. Another words, the association between portal role and the ABAP menu-role could not be transported. How can Associated Groups in a Portal Role be transported?
Thank you in advance.
Best regards,
Zabrina

Hi,
I have tried to do it in two steps:
1. Export and import portal contents which include the whole structure with folders, roles and iviews under each role.
2. Export and import the same roles as user management data
The result from 1 was that the whole structure including the roles is imported; however none of the portal role contains the associated assigned group.
The result from 2 was that the UME roles with assigned group are imported as separat objects.
Now, the same role appears both as portal role without assigned group and the UME object with assigned group. But, there is no connection between 1 and 2. That means that I cannot use 2 anyway.
Is there any other way to do than to export 1 and manuelly modify 1 with assigned role once again after transport?
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Zabrina

Transport roles (with assigned group) containing folders and iviews

Hi,
This message was in the BI forum before and I think that it suits here better.
I created a portal role which is contained in a folder X under Portal Content. This portal role is associated with a particular ABAP menu-role by means of Assigned Groups. When I transported the folder X with all dependent objects from Dev to QA, the portal role appeared but the Assigned Groups is empty. Another words, the association between portal role and the ABAP menu-role could not be transported. How can Associated Groups in a Portal Role be transported?
Then I also tried to do the following steps:
1. Export and import portal contents which include the whole structure with folders, roles and iviews under each role.
2. Export and import the same roles as user management data
The result from 1 was that the whole structure including the roles is imported; however none of the portal role contains the associated assigned group.
The result from 2 was that the UME roles with assigned group are imported as separat objects.
Now, the same role appears both as portal role without assigned group and the UME object with assigned group. But, there is no connection between 1 and 2. That means that I cannot use 2 anyway.
Therefore, I still have to manuelly modify 1 with assigned role once again after importing step 1. Is there a way to import 1 with the associated assigned group without any manuel modification?
Thank you in advance for any helpful advice.
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hi,
check the following threads
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/6d/7c8cfd410ea040aadf92e1f78107a4/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/6d/7c8cfd410ea040aadf92e1f78107a4/frameset.htm
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J2EE roles vs Portal roles vs ABAP roles

(I also posted this on portal implementation, but i hope i receive more reactions here )
Dear all,
I have a question about the information on the following link:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/4c/6c0f40763f1e07e10000000a1550b0/content.htm
It says the following:
"These functions are intended to assign users and their assigned portal roles a corresponding role in the SAP System. This corresponding role (authorization role) contains the authorizations needed to execute certain functions from the portal."
1. These "...certain functions..." they talk about, can someome give an example of these functions?
2. Is it possible for example to create a role in the portal that gives a user authorisation for starting transaction SE80 in the backend system? Without making the role in the backend first and uploading it to the portal.
3. It's also possible to upload ABAP roles to the portal. Is the main reason for this that users can see their SAP menu (or part of it) in the portal? Or does this have other advantages too?
4. I'm very confused about the relation between J2EE roles, portal roles and ABAP roles. Is it possible to manage the roles for a user in one place, without having to do certain actions in the portal AND the backend system?
From what I've read on help.sap.com, you always need to do certain actions in both places.
A possible approach is the following (from what i know): Creation of roles in the R/3 system, without assigning to users. From a webdynpro application, a user can then be created and roles can be assigned: portal roles (via some API) and R/3 roles (via BAPIs).
I hope someone can give a bit information on this issue. I've done alot of reading on help.sap.com, but it's still an abstract issue for me.
Kind regards,
Joren

Hi Jorem
Re: point 3. I don't build portal roles through this mechanism as I don't believe in replicating the SAP easy access menu inside the portal. If there are some specific functions (transactions) that I want to run inside the portal, then I might use this mechanism to build the iViews once. I would rather start an iView that runs transaction SMEN and let the user see their regular easy access menu.
Please note that the speed of executing transactions in the portal isn't a function of the portal, but the fact that you are using ITS, for example, to web enable the transaction...
Re: point 4. Groups are a UME concept. They have nothign to do with ABAP groups. They can be created directly in UME through user administration functions, or they can be created in the LDAP and then they are visible in the portal. If the UME points to an ABAP system, then the ABAP roles are autoamtcially visible as UME groups. Groups created in the UME need to have the members assigned through user admin functions of the Java engine. Groups stored in LDAP are maintained using LDAP admin tools. There are upload utilities that allow you to maintain LDAP users and groups through text files. Google LDIF for more details.
Roles on the portal need to be built in the portal contetn directory. As Michael mentioned, this can be automated by the use of the role upload function built into the portal.

Link ECC roles to Portal roles (Portal is using LDAP source for UME)

Hi all,
If a user is assigned a certain ECC ABAP role, they should also receive a related portal role. Our portal is using LDAP.
If our portal ume source was an ABAP system, I think it would be easy to achieve the ECC to ABAP role linkage.
We were thinking of developing a UME java webservice and have an ABAP proxy class consume it to allow our abap system to assign the correct portal role, and delete the portal role.
Any other ideas?

Rajendra,
Thx for your reply. Can you provide any more details as to the design of your solution with the web service? We are thinking of running a batch job nightly with a some mapping table in ECC to determine what ABAP role should link to the portal group then call the webservice to add the user to the portal group or delete the user from the portal group.
A second question is...does SAP Identity Manager offer any solution for this type of requirement?
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Difference between Portal Transport and Basis Transport

Hi Experts,
I have few questions .
1. What's the difference between transport in portal and transport in Basis.
2 . In user admin , we create users and assign them roles. Even Basis people will create
new userids and assign them roles. Whats the difference between these two.
3. In useradmin whats the difference between assigned roles and assigned groups.
Thanks a lot.

Hi,
I don't see any differnece in portal and basis transport
Content transport generally done from one landscape to other landscape. say from dev to test system
or test to production system.
we create user id using user admin role in portal ume or we can get users externally by using LDAP funtionality.
Using user admin role we can assingn users to rolese and groups.
Groups are used for a group of users. IF certain users have similar authorizations in portal then we group them in single user group and then assing this group to the roles. This is called authorization.
Role is used to display the portal content to the users and is the top level navigation in portal.
If I miss anything at basis level then someone can help you.
Raghu

Automating Portal Role Assignment

Hi Everyone,
At my project we are looking to automate the process of Portal Role assignment.
With our current design, a user initially logs into the ISA and ICSS Portal as an anonymous Portal user. To view all content the user will be required to register himself on the portal. Once the user registers himself, a user record is created on the backend CRM system. Now when he tries to log into the portal with his new username and password he gets a blank screen because he has no Portal Roles assigned to him.
We need need to create Portal Roles for each CRM user. The new Portal Role will be based on user type in the CRM system. Since we have several users logging in and creating new accounts, we need to automate this process of mapping a CRM user to an appropriate Portal Role and then actually creating the Portal Role on the Portal.
Has some one does this before or has an idea how to do this?
Any help will be really appreciated...
Thanks!
Muhammad Osman Yousuf

Hi Michael,
Thanks for the help so far. Do you think the following mappings would work with the solution you recommended?
On the CRM side we have CRM_ROLE_A, CRM_ROLE_B, and CRM_ROLE_C and on the Portal sider we have PORTAL_ROLE_A and PORTAL_ROLE_B.
All mappings given are possible...
CRM_ROLE_A = PORTAL_ROLE_A
CRM_ROLE_B = PORTAL_ROLE_A and PORTAL_ROLE_B
CRM_ROLE_C = PORTAL_ROLE_B
Thanks!
Muhammad Osman Yousuf

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