Security Profiles
Oracle Applications 11i had a limitation where, the Business
Personnel’s responsible for a particular business function who had access to
multiple organizations had to navigate to individual Organization specific
responsibilities for taking action on the transactions. For example: a buyer
who can create Purchase orders for multiple organizations will have to Navigate
to each operating Unit specific responsibility to create or manage purchasing
Documents.
R12 comes as a blessing for such user of Oracle applications
where Multi Organization Access control
features enabled such users to take action on documents and transactions
without navigating between various organizations specific responsibilities.
This feature can be implemented using Security Profiles in R12.
Security profiles is a feature in R12 which can be used for
grouping the organizations logically such that a set of users can access a Set
of Organizations using the responsibility which are assigned with particular
Security profile.
There are two types
of Security Profiles.
• Security Profile: If it is
required to group multiple operating units for the same business group.
• Global Security Profile: If it is
required to group multiple operating units for the different business group.
After the security profiles are defined it is required to
run the Security List Maintenance program, before assigning the Security
profile to the Responsibilities
A Security profile can be assigned to a responsibility by
using the MO: Security Profile option.
If you set the MO: Security Profile option, you can also set
the MO: Default Operating Unit profile option to specify a default operating
unit.
It is important to note that if the MO: Security Profile
option is not set for the responsibility it will behave same as R11i.
The MO: Operating
Unit profile option still exists in R12 but it should only be used if Multi
organization access control is not desired.
HR: Security Profile
Oracle Applications also has HR: Security Profile feature.
This profile option is used for defining association between a Business group
and the Organizations hierarchy. HR: Security Profile options needs to be setup
before defining any new organizations or organization hierarchies under a
Business group.
