Company Group

Definition

Group that contains all the users assigned to a specific company. Company groups are determined dynamically at runtime and are not stored in the user data source (LDAP directory or database).

After you activate companies by setting the corresponding user management properties and restarting the Java application server, the company groups are automatically displayed on the user interface and you can assign users and roles to them. If you deactivate companies, the company groups are no longer displayed.

Company groups are named as follows:

·       If you retrieve the company information from a backend system, such as SAP Enterprise Buyer (EBP), the company group is called

<company_name> (<company_ID>)

where <company_ID> is the ID of the company in the backend system.

For example, My Company (A39400B100)

·       If you use the simple implementation of companies, where ume.tpd.imp.class=com.sap.security.core.tpd.SimpleTPD, the company group is called

<company_name> (STPD_<company_name>)

For example, My Company (STPD_ My Company)

Use

Company groups make it easier to administrate companies. To assign a user to a company, you can either assign the user to a company in the user’s profile, or you can assign the user to the group associated with that company.

You can assign roles to company groups, thus making it easy to assign a role to all members of a particular company.

You can assign company groups to other groups.

The following constraints apply:

·       You can assign company groups to other groups, but you cannot assign other groups to company groups.

·       You cannot change the names of company groups. They are fixed.

·       You cannot delete company groups.