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3118974 - Communication arrangement creation fails due to error "Authorization Group must be maintained"

Symptom

As soon as you save the Communication Arrangement, the following error occurs:

An Error occurred in communication Arrangement SAP_COM_0531/ SAP_COM_0532 
Authorization Group must be maintained - see help for more information

Environment

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

Cause

From S/4HANA Cloud 2111 onwards an authorization group to be used with SAP_COM_0532 is required when changing or creating a new arrangement. Existing arrangements will remain working as they’ve used to.

The authorization group allow customers to define what can be extracted, either via an list of allowed views or simply stating that all the data extraction enabled views can be extracted (which was the previous behavior).

Resolution

If your S/4HANA Cloud system is managed by CBC system. Please go to your CBC system and go to "Configuration" to search SSCUI ID XXX.

If your S/4HANA Cloud system is managed by Manage Your Solution app, please follow below procedure to create the authorization group: 

Manual Procedure with Business User

  1. Log on to with BPC_EXPERT or BR_BPC_EXPERT user or equivalent permissions.
  2. Search for “Manage Your Solution” App


  3. Navigate to the entry


  4. Click on "Configure Your Solution” button
  5. Filter by:
    - Application Area: Application Platform and Infrastructure
    - Sub Application Area: Data Extraction

  6. A single entry with short description "Define allowlists for CDS view extraction." Will appear, click on the entry.


  7. On the expand panel, only one Configuration step appears, click on Configure action
  8. The following maintenance view shall be displayed (Note: It may be empty)
  9. Click on “New Entries” in the toolbar, a line will open
  10. Define the group ID, description and type
    - Authorization Group ID: (define a unique identifier)
    - Group description: (describe the group intent)
    - Type: choose “Explicit allow list” if you want to restrict the view that can be extracted.  Otherwise  select “all data extraction views”
  11. Save and select a customizing request for this configuration.

Keywords

KBA , CA-DI-IS-ABA , ABAP Integration , Problem

Product

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition all versions ; SAP S/4HANA Cloud all versions