By: Eric J

Eric J — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 03:47:41 +0000

4 steps to creating a new role to view all reports within a responsibility in R12
Step 1 – provision your user with the correct access (this only has to be done once per instance)
Login as sysadmin user
Navigate to user management responsibility ? users and query your regular user
Select “update user “
Assign Role – “Security Administrator” to your user. Save.
Assign Role – “User Management” to your user. Save.
Assign Role – “Functional Developer” to your user. Save.
Log-out as sysadmin,
Step 2 – specify function of the role (in this case ability to view all requests within a responsibility)
login as your user
Via “Functional Developer” responsibility
Search for object Concurrent Requests.
Click on Concurrent Requests.
Click on Object Instance Sets tab.
Click on Create Instance Set button.
Enter Name , Code and Description for new instance set.
– Enter the following for predicate:
&TABLE_ALIAS.request_id in (select cr.request_id from fnd_concurrent_requests cr where cr.responsibility_id = fnd_global.resp_id and cr.responsibility_application_id = fnd_global.resp_appl_id)
Save
Step 3 – Create new Role, create grant, and assign function created in Step 2
Go back to the “home” and goto “user management” responsibility ? goto Role and Role Inheritance tab
Create a Role and then create a Grant for the Role.
Enter Name and Description for the new Grant.
For the Data Security Object enter “Concurrent Requests”.
Click Next and provide the Data Content Type of “Instance Set”.
Click Next and for Instance Set choose instance set created above
The permission Set is “Request Operations”.
(Note: There are no parameters for the grant).
Set 4: assign role to user
Query the User Name you want to add the new role to.
Click on the Update icon.
Click Assign Roles button and find the new role created in Step 3.
Save and Apply to activate the new role.

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By: Eric J