Restricting Characteristic maintenance on Retail Article Master

[Former Member]

I'm looking for ways to restrict maintenance access for specific article characteristics for certain user groups within Article Create and Article Change(MM41,MM42). I have defined characteristics (CT04) and assigned them to Merchandise Category Levels which in turn makes them available to maintain at the article level. I need to restrict who can edit specific characteristics - for example User A can maintain characteristics X and Y, but not Z, and User B can maintain Y and Z, but not X.

I've found various authorization objects using characteristics and classification (C_TCLS_BER and C_TCLS_MNT), but these don't appear to work for this. Another variation is that SAP Retail stores the characteristic assignments using class 026 which is an internal class. When looking at the C_TCLS_MNT authorization object and defining Organization Levels which I could then assign to the characteristic/class level, class 026 is not an allowed value to define Organization Levels.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

Corey

[former_member211904]

Hello Corey, I am looking at something similar.

I see in transaction CT04 that you can define an authorization group per characteristic, and the help tells you that this is linked to authorization object C_CABN_GRP.

Therefore you should be able to maintain entries in table TBRG (via maintenance view V_TBRG in SM31) for auth object C_CABN_GRP.

Then you can, with auth object C_CABN_GRP, restrict users' access to certain characteristics via the authorization group value.

[former_member211904]

Sorry, it seems as if this is only relevant to the actual maintenance of the characteristics, not the values during assignment.

As an alternative, I tried implementing a source code enhancement at various places to try override the value of CABN-ATINP and set the fields to read-only, but SAP have written their code in such a way that there is always a CHECK statement which exists the relevant unit of code before getting to the enhancement, rendering this impossible.