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Security Guide for Siebel eBusiness Applications > Configuring Access Control > Planning for Access Control > Planning for OrganizationsOrganizations are designed to represent the broadest divisions of your company. An organization controls the data access of the employees that are assigned to it. Organizations can be internal, or they can be external (in the case of Siebel PRM). The organization associated with the employee's active position determines visibility for the employee. Conversely, the organizations that are associated to the employee, such as using the Employee Organization field in the Employee business component, determine visibility to the employee record for this employee. Setting up organizations is an optional step in your implementation. If you are upgrading from a previous version of your Siebel application, all the data is automatically assigned to one default organization. With one organization, there is no impact on visibility and data access. However, if you want to divide your company into multiple structural units, you can create multiple organizations. You may want to delegate administration of users to organizations that access only their users. To do this, you must configure the appropriate views using Siebel Tools. For more information on configuring views, see Configuring Siebel eBusiness Applications. The following are best practices for working with organizations:
NOTE: You cannot delete organization records. Business components throughout your Siebel application refer to organization records. Deleting an organization could cause invalid references on transaction records. This could lead to unexpected negative results, such as valid data not appearing in the user interface. |
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