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June 20, 2013 3 minute read

Copying roles from one SAP client to another using PFCG

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Roles be that if they are Single or Composite Roles are generally created and saved on a
particular client to where that role was derived. As with most SAP Enterprise systems, there are
multiple SAP Clients (Development, Quality Assurance and Production).

As per normal standards, when any changes are done, before they go into Production they should
be tested, there is no exception with authorizations either. Instead of creating roles manually for
each client, this tutorial will show you how you can simply copy a role or roles from one SAP client
to another. In a real life scenario, you could copy a role from Development into Quality Assurance,
perform tests and finally copy across into Production.

Below are the steps to copy a composite role from one client to another.

Client 1 –> Client where the roles are already created

Client 2 –> Client to which the roles are to be copied

1. Login to client 1, type in transaction code PFCG as shown below

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2. In the Role Maintenance screen, enter the role that was created earlier. In this tutorial, I am
using composite role Z_Composite_Role_G-XXX that has been already created

3. Select the Role menu and choose option Download

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4.Press Enter or click on the Tick for the Information Box

5. Select your directory in order to save the role in and then click on Save

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6. Select “Always allow” for the following dialogue box (SAP GUI Security)

7. Login into client 2 and type in transaction code PFCG. In the Role Maintenance screen, select
Role menu and choose upload.

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8. Press enter or click on the tick for the Information Box

9. Navigate to the location to where you had saved your downloaded role, select the role and click
on Open

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10. List of Roles to be imported screen is displayed. Don’t worry about the red lights, it is just
information that the single roles (in the composite role) already exists, it is safe to overwrite this.
In most cases you would copy across custom single roles / composite roles and these lights would
show up as Green. Press the Tick button or press Enter on your keyboard.

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June 29, 2014 at 7:36 am

thank you so much for this helpful tutorial. It helped me a lot.

Best Regards

~Amal Aloun

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