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3459523 - Business Role can't be removed from Business User because of an existing draft version

Symptom

You're trying to remove a Business Role from a Business User but you're getting the error message "Business Role XXXXXX can't be removed because of an existing draft version.".

Environment

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Maintain Business Users app
  2. Open the Business User
  3. Select the Business Role 
  4. Click on Remove button 
  5. Error is displayed

Cause

The reason why this message is displayed is because the Business Role has Unsaved Changes by User XXX.

You can check which user has the draft version of the Role by following the steps below:

  1. Go to Maintain Business Roles app 
  2. Search for the Business Role 
  3. The Business Role will be displayed with a message "Business Role has Unsaved Changes by XXXX". 

Resolution

Please ask user with unsaved changes to do some dummy changes to the Business Role and save it

OR

Discard the draft. 

Once existing draft is discarded you should be able to remove the role from user. 

Keywords

business role, remove, business user, delete, draft version, unsaved changes, removed, existing , KBA , BC-SRV-APS-IAM , Identity and Access Management , Problem

Product

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition all versions