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Written for SAP consultants and customers, this guidebook helps you to set up the authorization concept in the R/3 System. Using step-by-step instructions, it shows you how to use the Profile Generator during and after the R/3 implementation.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #595591 in Books
• Published on: 2000-02-16
• Binding: Paperback
• 354 pages

From the Author
This guidebook is designed to help you set up the authorization environment in the customer system using the Profile Generator (PG). It explains what you need to know to perform this task and helps you use the standard tools provided with your system.

This book does not cover authorizations for add-on components or New Dimension products. It also does not cover Internet-related authorizations (encryption, authentication, and credit card security).

This guide refers to Release 4.6A/B of the SAP R/3 System. All screenshots are from Release 4.6A unless otherwise noted.

The structure of this guidebook matches the setup of the authorization concept, progressing from a new R/3 installation all the way to an upgrade. If you upgrade from an older release see chapter 14, Upgrade, for more information.

About This Guide

This guide provides you with the following:
- The big picture (security and the authorization concept in R/3)
- Tasks you need to perform during and after installation of R/3 to facilitate the use of the Profile Generator
- Tasks you need to perform after an upgrade of the R/3 System
- All the essential steps for security implementation using the PG and Central User Administration
- Tasks to prepare for going live
- Appendixes with the most important SAPNet-R/3 Frontend notes for authorizations and the most frequently asked questions.

Who Is This Guide For?

This guide was designed for the following people using the Profile Generator either in an implementation project or as an ongoing reference:
- Basis Consultants who install R/3 and set up the security at customer sites
- Application Consultants who want to start using the Profile Generator as the basis for their customer security implementation
- Customer IT and help desk personnel

About the Author
The R/3 Simplification Group at SAP Labs, Palo Alto, develops or helps develop "Accelerators" to make R/3 implementations quicker, cheaper, and easier. The R/3 Made Easy guidebook series was created to help customers speed up their R/3 implementations. The Made Easy guidebooks are all written by authors with field experience in the area they cover.

Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, SAP Labs, Inc. researches and develops cutting-edge software products for the SAP business application systems. SAP Labs, Inc. employs over 450 people from 15 countries and is a member of the worldwide SAP AG company network. Our mission is to develop country-specific products for American and Canadian customers and to integrate new technologies developed in the Silicon Valley in the SAP systems worldwide.

SAP AG is headquartered in Walldorf, Germany and is the world's fourth largest software firm. It employs over 18,000 people in more than 50 countries and is currently the largest software company trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: SAP). SAP Labs, Inc. is a subsidiary of SAP America, the SAP marketing, training, and consulting headquarters in the United States.

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From Chapter 8 "Customizing Financial Accounting for Print Forms"

OVERVIEW

Before you can use print forms with your application, certain customizing steps may be needed.

This chapter covers the following two activities related to customizing Financial Accounting (FI) for print forms:
- How to use a modified form instead of a standard form
- How to get printing results that cannot be achieved by modifying the form

ASSIGNING A PRINT PROGRAMM TO CHECKS

If you copy and modify the standard print program for checks, you must inform the system that you want to use this new print program for printing checks. The following example shows how you can assign a print program to checks for a specific country.

TASK Assign a new print program to checks.

1) Access the SAP Reference IMG (see "Accessing the IMG" on page 162).

2) Choose Financial Accounting -> Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable -> Business Transactions -> Outgoing Payments -> Automatic Outgoing Payments -> Payment Method/Bank Selection -> Configure payment program.

3) On the Payment Program Configuration: Initial Screen, choose Payment methods/country.

4) On the Maintain Payment Program Configuration: Countries screen, double-click on the appropriate country.

In this example double-click on U.S. (United States). If you cannot find the line US, scroll down the screen.

5) On the Maintain Payment Program Configuration: Country Pmnt Methods - List screen, choose the appropriate payment method for checks.

In this example double-click on C (Checks). The Maintain Payment Program Configuration: Country Pmnt Methods - Details screen appears.
a) In the Name of the print program field, enter the new print program name.
b) Save the changes.

If you use the CTS, specify a transport request after saving.

6) Choose Exit to return to the Payment Program Configuration: Initial Screen.

7) Choose Back to return to Display IMG screen.