Oracle Apps DBA: Keeping E-Business Suite Alive · Module 9 · Users, responsibilities and access
Operating units and access
Lesson 95 of 184 · 2 min
The DATA half of the question, which is where the answer usually is WHEN THE FUNCTION IS VISIBLE AND THE DATA IS EMPTY. Lesson 2 answers "why can I not see the screen". This answers the different and commoner complaint: the screen opens perfectly and shows nothing. THE OPERATING UNIT IS THE ORGANISATIONAL BOUNDARY THAT DECIDES WHICH DATA A RESPONSIBILITY SEES. An estate is divided into them — by company, by country, by business — and a responsibility is scoped to one or several. So two people with the identical responsibility name can see completely different data, and that is the design rather than a fault. WHICH MEANS "THE SCREEN IS EMPTY" IS ALMOST NEVER A PERMISSIONS PROBLEM IN THE SENSE PEOPLE MEAN. The function is granted — that is why the screen opened. The data is out of scope. AND THAT DISTINCTION IS THE WHOLE VALUE OF THIS LESSON,…
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In this module: Module 9 · Users, responsibilities and access
- 1Users, responsibilities and menus
- 2Why a user cannot see a function
- 3Operating units and access
- 4End-dating rather than deleting
- 5The requests you should refuse
- 6Password policy, and what it is worth
- 7Single sign-on, briefly
- 8What breaks: three access failures
- 9Lab briefing · Diagnose four access complaints