What is role and what is profile? Different between both?

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What is role and what is profile? Different between both?..

Answer / robson mathew

Role: Role contains set of logically linked transaction
codes that we are assingning to role at Menu tab.
Profile: It contains Authorizations and Authorization
objects. Profile represents job position in the system.

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What is role and what is profile? Different between both?..

Answer / kshitij s. nirmaley

In Basis we can create the role and assign the role to the
employees. We create the roles but the profile will be
automatically generated when we click on generate profile
button. For all this we used PFCG command. This command is
used for the role and profile generation.

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What is role and what is profile? Different between both?..

Answer / prasad

role is group of transactions,reports,menus and etc and it can be assigned to users for accessing permissions ..
and profile automatically generated when the role is created.
each profile contain up to 150 authorization objects

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What is role and what is profile? Different between both?..

Answer / hemanth reddy

Hi All

Role is set of profiles.
Profile is a set of authorisations.

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What is role and what is profile? Different between both?..

Answer / s.m.feroz ahmed

Hi,
A Role is defined as the Part Played by the User and
Profile is defined as to which profile a user is authorised
to when coming to SAP.A profile can of 3 stages
Classified,Maintained and NotMaintained.So,always a profile
should be in Maintained state when Transported .

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What is role and what is profile? Different between both?..

Answer / amit maurya

From my point of view role is a set of authorizatin and
transaction code we assign in role.

ans profile is a set of role.

for both we use t-code PFCG

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