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3450156 - Error "You are not Authorized to Make These Changes" When Trying to Block a Material

Symptom

System throws an error when trying to block a material below

You are not authorized to make these changes

Environment

  • SAP Cloud for Customer core applications 
  • SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Navigate to Product work center
  2. Go to Product Administration work center view
  3. Search for and open the relevant product
  4. Select "Action" button
  5. Choose "block" button

Error appears : You are not authorized to make these changes

Cause

The access group ID is not maintained for the access context
 

Resolution

To resolve this issue, the access group ID needs to be added either in the access context or in the Org structure.

  1. Go to the Administrator work center.
  2. Go to the General Settings View.
  3. Choose the Business Users link.
  4. Select the business user
  5. Choose the button Edit - Access Rights.
  6. Navigate to the Access Restrictions tab.
  7. Search for the Product Administration Work Center View Name 
  8. In the Write Access drop-down, select- Restricted
  9. Add the access context group ID

See Also

2813039 - System Time Out or Unresponsive when choosing the Restriction Rule - '99 - Define Specific Restriction'

Keywords

Access Context, Access Group ID, Block, Material, Action , You are not authorized to make these changes, authorization error , KBA , SRD-CC-IAM , Identity & Access Management , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions ; SAP Cloud for Customer core applications all versions