Altering authorizations
I have set up structural authorizations to restrict users to display HR data on employees in their whole department. Unfortunately they cannot see holder relationships for employees who have left the organization and so cannot validate who was the previous holder of a position. How do I tweak their authorization to permit them to see the delimited holder relationships?

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Well, I think the best way to do this is to use BAdI HRBAS00_STRUAUTH. Depending on your requirements it can be relatively easy or extremely difficult.

This was first published in October 2004