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Examples of User Profile Options

Example #1

Your Accounts Payable department recently purchased a printer, and you want all the reports from that department to print on that new printer. You simply change the "Printer" profile option for Oracle Payables to reflect the purchase of the new printer.

Suggestion: Example #2 highlights the importance of default profile options. If an application user of Oracle Payables or a responsibility associated with Oracle Payables already has a value specified for the printer profile option, that value will override the value you set at the application level. We suggest you first set user profile options at the site level, and then work your way up the hierarchy to other levels when appropriate. User profile options not set at one level default to the user profile options set at the next lower level.

Example #2

You can further control security within Oracle Applications by assigning a set of books to a responsibility, application or site. By assigning a set of books to a responsibility, you control not only the forms and functions that the responsibility can access, but the specific set of books as well.

See your Oracle Applications product reference guide for information on how to define a set of books.

See Also

Overview of Setting User Profiles

Setting User Profile Options

Using Profile Options as a Parameter or Segment Default Value

System Profile Values Window

Profile Options in Oracle Application Object Library

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