Creating New Roles and Groups for Mobile Users

To add new content to a site and make it visible on screen (also in SAP Mobile Start), it is required to assign content items (apps) to a role and a group. It is common to create an own role for mobile specific content; alternatively, the Everyone role could be used to show the assigned apps for all users on all sites.

The following steps are required to create an own role and group:

1. Access the Site Manager provided by SAP Build Work Zone, standard edition.
2. Navigate to the Content Manager and create a new Role (+ New button).
   • Enter a title and an optional description.
   • Save the role (it will automatically be created as a Role Collection on the SAP BTP subaccount).
3. Navigate to the Site Directory and access the settings of the site. 
   • Choose Edit and add the new role to the site via the Assignments pane.
   • Save the site settings.
4. Access the subaccount in SAP BTP cockpit with your platform user.
5. Assign the new role collection to your user. The end user credentials that you assign the new role collection to depends on the setup you followed for user authentication.
   Hint

   It is the same user that you used to onboard to SAP Mobile Start with earlier in this unit.

   • If you used default identity provider (as in unit 3), it is a platform user
   • If you used Identity Authentication (as in unit 4), it is an Identity Authentication user
6. Go back to the Site Manager → Content Manager and create a new group.
   • Enter a title and description.
   • Save the group.

In this practice exercise, you create a new role and group.

ExerciseStart Exercise

You have now created an own role and group within Site Manager. Next, you will create mobile specific apps to assign to your role and group.