Creating Custom SU01 Transaction Code with Display and Password Reset Buttons

Applies to:
All versions of SAP.

Summary
This article will explain you the process of creating custom SU01 transaction code with only Display and Password reset buttons. Author: Raghu Boddu

Company: IBM India Pvt Ltd Created on: 29 September 2010

Author Bio
Raghu Boddu is a SAP Certified Technology Professional in SAP Netweaver 7.0 Security and has excellent command over SAP R/3, BI, HR, and GRC. He is good known to the community for easy to understand articles. He has authored many articles for Microsoft knowledgebase and also is an MVP in Windows shell area from 2005-2008.

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Table of Contents
Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................... 3 Procedure ........................................................................................................................................................... 3 Create a transaction variant ............................................................................................................................ 3 Creating custom transaction code .................................................................................................................. 5 Disclaimer and Liability Notice ............................................................................................................................ 7

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Introduction
Due to its criticality, SU01 authorization will have to be restricted only to the Security team members. Even though the authorization is provided to L1/Frontline support consultants, their authorization is limited to a specific User groups. This is due to the user maintenance authorizations that they get. This article explains you the procedure to create a custom SU01 transaction code only with Display and Password reset buttons to enable the L1/Frontline team to accept the basic requests such as User Information, and Password reset requests.

Procedure
Create a transaction variant The first step is to create a transaction variant. Below are the steps to create the transaction variant with the options that are required. 1. Goto SHD0 2. Enter SU01 as Transaction code 3. Enter Transaction Variant name (Example: ZSU01) 4. Click Create button

5. To view the Screen entire window, enter the User name 6. Click Change.

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This will display the Confirm Screen Entries screen as shown below: 7. Enter short text for screen variant 8. Click button

9. Expand Menu Bar Users and click the 1 listed option (For eg: CREA) 10. Click button

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11. Repeat the same for all the other options such as CHAN, COPY, DELE, RENU, and LOCK
NOTE: If you wish to keep any buttons, dont mask them .

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12. Click 13. Click 14. Click Save icon Once the Transaction variant is saved, proceed with the below steps to create a custom transaction code. Creating custom transaction code 15. Goto SE93 Transaction code 16. Enter the transaction code name as Z_PASSWORD_RESET 17. Click Create icon button

18. Enter Short text for the transaction code 19. Select Transaction with variant (variant transaction) option.

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20. Enter SU01 as transaction code 21. Enter ZSU01 as the Transaction variant (the variant name that was entered in step 3)

22. Click Save. Now you can view only Display and Password reset buttons as shown in the below screen:

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Disclaimer and Liability Notice

This document may discuss sample coding or other information that does not include SAP official interfaces and therefore is not supported by SAP. Changes made based on this information are not supported and can be overwritten during an upgrade. SAP will not be held liable for any damages caused by using or misusing the information, code or methods suggested in this document, and anyone using these methods does so at his/her own risk. SAP offers no guarantees and assumes no responsibility or liability of any type with respect to the content of this technical article or code sample, including any liability resulting from incompatibility between the content within this document and the materials and services offered by SAP. You agree that you will not hold, or seek to hold, SAP responsible or liable with respect to the content of this document.

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