Video Lesson 5.8: Authorization Check

This lesson explains what are authorization checks in SAP and how they can be used to create different roles and profiles for users.

• You will learn why an authorization check is useful and how to include it in your programs.
• You will learn to create authorization objects and assign them to roles.

Authorization Checks

• Critical data and parts of the functional scope of the SAP System must be protected from unauthorized access.
• You have to implement authorization checks in your program so that the user may only access areas for which he or she is authorized.
• Authorization objects can be defined within object classes.
• You create an actual authorization by subsequently assigning values to these fields.
• This authorization can be integrated into the required user master records by means of an authorization profile.
• At runtime, you can use the AUTHORITY-CHECK statement to check whether the actual user has the authorization required for executing the function in his or her user master record.