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3591579 - Minimum Permissions Required for Having View Access of Manage Business Configuration Tool - Employee Central

Symptom

Requirements for granting view rights to a non-admin user for the Manage Business Configuration Tool

Environment

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central 

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Assign permissions as per KBA: 2615255 - How to secure Manage Business Configuration objects.
  2. The user attempts to search for the tool "Manage Business Configuration" in global search.
  3. The tool is not reflecting.

Cause

For View Access, it is not enough to grant the view right to Manage Business Configuration objects. Additional permissions are also needed. 

Resolution

Assign the following permissions for the user: 

  • in Manage Business Configuration > Grant View rights to the objects
  • In Metadata Framework > Grant Access to Manage Data and Configure Object Definitions 

User will have access to Manage Business Configuration Tool without Edit right. 

See Also

2615255 - How to secure Manage Business Configuration objects for more information on assigning permissions

2801085 - How to Work With the Manage Business Configuration (BCUI) feature in SuccessFactors

2618811 - Manage Business Configuration: Unable to view any Configuration Objects - Object does not have children - BCUI is empty

Setting Up Role-Based Permissions for Business Configuration UI

Keywords

Manage Business Configuration, permission, view access, Metadata Framework, view permissions, view  , KBA , LOD-SF-EC-BCI , Manage Business Configuration (BCUI) & Data Models (XML) , LOD-SF-EC-RBP , Roles & Permissions (EC Core only) , Problem

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central all versions