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·         For single roles, when reading menus from
·         The SAP menu
·         Roles
·         Area menus
·         A file
·         For composite roles, when reading menus from single roles

To do this, make the entry CONDENSE_MENU_PFCG in the Customizing table SSM_CUST with the values "NO" (default value) and "YES". In the role maintenance (transaction PFCG), choose Utilities - Settings on the detail screen for a role.

On the dialog window, set the indicator Menu: Do Not Insert Existing Entries. Standard NO.

You can override these global default settings for specific users. If you select Utilities ®Settings and Copy Menu: Do not insert existing entries, Default: NO/YES on the detail screen of any role (Display or Change Roles), redundancy avoidance is activated.

Otherwise, it is not active. Although this setting applies only for this user, it applies for all of the roles for which he or she is editing the menus.

The system uses the short texts of the folder hierarchy and the short text, the transaction code, and the target system of the menu entries o determine redundancies. The system does not investigate menu entries for other objects. We recommend that you display the "Technical Name" so that you can see the effect of the redundancy avoidance. If a number of roles are assigned to a user, it can be useful to continue to use the redundancy avoidance of the Easy Access Menu.