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Developing and Deploying Siebel eBusiness Applications > Required Application Administration Tasks > Defining Company Structure > Defining ResponsibilitiesResponsibilities determine which views users can access. For example, the Siebel Administrator responsibility allows access to all views. Defining responsibilities lets you limit user access to views and, therefore, to your Siebel application's information and functions. You should define responsibilities that correspond to the major job functions in your organization. For example, you might create responsibilities for NREC CEO, sales manager, partner manager, field sales representatives, and so on.
To define a responsibility, you must specify which views are available to that responsibility. You may prefer to copy the sample responsibilities that ship with your Siebel application and then customize them for your purposes. NOTE: You cannot edit sample responsibilities. You should grant access to the System Preferences view to only a select group of administrators. System preferences control server logic and processing. Therefore, end users should not be given access to the System Preferences view. You should not add Administration - Applications screens to responsibilities associated with end users. Likewise, you should limit access to the Employees, Master Forecasts, Mobile Clients, Responsibilities, Views, and Territories screens. The work performed using these screens has far-reaching implications for the entire application. You may want to hide the license key view to discourage unauthorized users from attempting to change license keys. You can do this using the License Keys view in the Administration - Applications screen. To hide the license key view, disable the Siebel License Key view in the user's responsibility. NREC created new views during the development cycle and then registered the views in the application. Now NREC must add these views to the responsibilities that need to have access to them. NOTE: You should add all new views to the administrator responsibility, because the people with this responsibility typically help troubleshoot the Siebel application. To copy an existing responsibility
Now you must set up your users, so they can be assigned responsibilities. Without responsibilities, a user cannot use the Siebel application. |
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