Exporting a full table to Excel is fast. Explaining why payroll fields appeared in that Excel is slow — and expensive.
In iDataView Report Design, the Authorization Objects topic lets you bind fields to SAP authorization objects — and up to ten of their key fields — so the generated program respects the same checks as standard SAP transactions.
Field guide: what to configure
- Identify sensitive fields in the Report Fields grid (amounts, costs, HR attributes)
- Link each to the correct authorization object from your corporate catalog (maintained under REP AI settings)
- Use Test with users who lack the object — columns should mask or empty per SAP behavior
- Re-test after Activate because authorization is enforced in the generated ABAP runtime
This is not a cosmetic hide in the UI grid — it is SAP-style enforcement in the report program itself. When the same iView is later published as an API or fed into SQL Transfer, you start from a definition that already encodes field sensitivity.
Align with AccessGuard later
Authorization objects on reports answer "may this user see this column on this run?" AccessGuard answers "should this user have the underlying SAP role at all?" Together they cover runtime enforcement and periodic role review — without duplicating spreadsheets.
Why it matters
Self-service reporting fails the moment trust replaces authorization. Mapping auth objects in REP lets you democratize data access while keeping HR and finance fields under the same rules as SE93 transactions. You move faster because restricted users are tested before go-live — not because you apologize after the export.