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Provisioning Usersand Groups

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Objectives

After completing this lesson, you should be able to:

• Describe the four levels of security in Financial Management

• Assign user roles


Levels of Security

There are four levels of security in Financial Management.

Document security Data securityTask securityUser authentication


User Authentication

• Users must provide a valid user ID and password to access an application.

• Financial Management leverages authentication providers such as LDAP and MSAD.

• User and groups must exist in the authentication directory.


Task Security

• You can specify the tasks that users and groups are authorized to perform.

• Other tasks are removed from the menus to present a customized user interface.

• Task security is assigned through user roles.Journals administrator’s view Journals user’s view


Document Security

Access Levels for Security Classes

• All

• Metadata

• Read

• Promote

• None

Security class = SalaryRelatedAccess = All


Data Security

• Data security is also assigned through security classes.

• To users, for specified dimension members, you assign All, Read, Promote, Metadata, or no access.

Security Class

East RegionWest RegionUnited KingdomSingapore

Assigned Access Level

AllReadMetadataNone


User Roles Overview

• User roles determine what tasks a user can perform in the application.

• Financial Management provides user roles that can be assigned to users and groups of an application.


User Role Categories

Application level

Data access

ReportsManage

Load

Extract


Assigning User Roles

Select an application and role.

Assign roles.


Summary

In this lesson, you should have learned to:

• Describe the four levels of security in Financial Management

• Assign user roles

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