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Oracle Apps Tutorials : Sys Admin - Users and Responsibilities
This tutorial provides you with a conceptual overview of users and responsibilities, covering the following topics: Creation of User, Creation of Responsibilities and Assigning Responsibilities to Users.
Overview
Users and Responsibilities are created in oracle applications in order to control the access to the data. Users are assigned a set of responsibilities through which they can retrieve or modify certain set of data. Responsibility is a grouping of access in a logical manner. Accounts payable responsibility would contain all the privileges to create invoices, make payments etc. All the users from the payables department would be given this responsibility. You can create users, responsibility through system administrator responsibility in oracle applications.
Creation of User
Navigation – System Administrator ->Security -> User -> Define
Figure 1. Create User Navigation
Follow the above the navigation path and click on Define. You will see following screen in front of you.
Figure 2. Create User
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UserName
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Give the username in this field.
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Password
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Enter desired password twice in this field. You would be required to change the password when you login first time with this username.
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Description
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Provide brief description of the user in this field.
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Password Expiration
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Days - No. of Days after which the password will expire for the user.
Accesses - No. of Accesses after which the password will expire for the user.
None - The password will never expire
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Person
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You can attach employee to this user. This is used for HRMS applications
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Customer
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To attach customer to this user.
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Supplier
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To attach supplier to this user.
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Email
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Provide email address for the user. Its use to send notifications to the user through oracle applications.
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Fax
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Fax number for the user.
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Effective Dates
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From and To dates between which the user would be active.
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Responsibilities
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List of responsibilities assigned to the user.
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Figure 3. Create User Indirect Responsibilities
Figure 4. Create User Securing Attributes
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