what is the main differene between roe and profile?
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Answer / himmatchavan
Role : Collection of Transaction Codes Only (No linked authorization Objects)
Profile : It contains the related Authorization Object, Fields and Values of the transaction codes.
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Answer / kale jitendra kashinath
Roles Contains set of t-codes and the profiles and profiles contains the authorization object that asigned to a user by using field,keys and values
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Answer / shweta daga
Role is a set of function/activity which is assigned to him
based on his business role. Assigning a role to the user
does not mean that the user has access to execute those
functions.. this is ruled by profiles. Profile are required
to give necessary authorization to the users through the
respective roles.
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Answer / deepak
Roles are collection of different transactions,reports/web links where its profile is nothing but set of authorizations which defines the behaviour of transactions listed in Role Menu. And another difference could be we can assign roles to user using PFCG but we can not assign manually created or generated profile directly to users using PFCG.
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Answer / uday
roles are the set of authorisations.
Profiles are sub componant of roles.
we can assign role to user but not profile.
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