## 13.2.11.4.2.3   Structural Authorizations
## Use
Following a defined evaluation path, the structural authorization helps you to define those organizational units in a root object that can be displayed to a user.
## Features
Always create the validity of commission manager, based on staffing assignments, as being the actual validity periods. For example, if a commission manager is responsible for the regional office in Washington from 1 July 1998 to 31 December 2001 , enter these precise dates. During this period the commission manager is responsible for all contracts and cases in his/her organizational structure, even for those that arose or ended before 1 July 1998, provided that at the effective validity end date they are/were still assigned to the organizational unit for which the commission manager currently has authorization (position validity of commission manager).
Incentive and Sales Force Management checks whether the current version of the commission contract is within the responsibility of the commission manager. If you have a pending version of a contract that is correctly assigned to a position or organizational unit, the pending version of the contract is chosen, otherwise the latest active version (in other words, the version with the latest technical validity commencement). The following date is taken for access to the link between the commission contract and PD-ORG (in each case on the basis of the status selected):
- The processing date , insofar as "effective from" is &lt; processing date =&lt; "effective to"
- The "effective from" date if the processing date is &lt; effective from
- The "effective to" date if the processing date is &gt; effective to.
The system selects the staff assignment to a position or organizational unit that is valid on this particular date. The organizational structure (including commission manager position) is evaluated on the basis of the time conditions set in Customizing (standard Customizing; processing date (current date) to an unlimited time in the future). If the commission contract is assigned to the commission manager position under the terms of the time conditions named, this commission manager then has structural authorization.
If the staff assignment ends when the contract legally ends, information on the organizational structure for contract-related processes, which may continue to run after the legal termination, is no longer available. For example, in the settlement process it is no longer possible to get the cost center from PD-ORG. This would lead to error messages after the legal end.
For structural authorization this means that the only solution is to search for the occupied position or organizational unit at an earlier point in time. In the meantime the commission contract could have been assigned to a position or organizational unit in another branch of the organizational structure. Evaluations/ statistics that use the organizational structure would not include early cancellation cases processed after the legal termination of the contract, because the staff assignment has already ended.
Contracts that are not assigned to commission managers can be viewed and processed by any commission manager, provided that the commission manager in question has authorization to display and process. In terms of structural authorization this means that all commission commission managers are authorized to view and process commission contracts that are not assigned to the organizational structure.
## Activities
You maintain the structural authorizations in the Customizing for Incentive and Commission Management under Authorizations Structural Authorizations.
For further information, see Maintenance of Structural Authorizations .