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Siebel Database Upgrade Guide > Siebel Database and UI Upgrade Planning > Upgrade Planning for Siebel Access ControlEnvironments: Development, production test, production. Platforms: Windows, UNIX, IBM z/OS. Access control was significantly revised in Siebel 7.5. Access control refers to all mechanisms that control visibility of screens, views, and data within Siebel Business Applications. Access control includes, but is not limited to positions, responsibilities, organizations, and access groups. To implement access control within your Siebel Business Applications, your Siebel administrator creates relationships between people and resources (a more general term for data that includes views and functionality). These relationships or policies are authorizations. Both people and resources can be grouped and placed in hierarchies to simplify administration. External users, such as customers and channel partners, can be assigned varying access levels that control visibility of data and application functionality. When planning access policies, consider the following:
For more information on access control, see Security Guide for Siebel Business Applications. Person, Household and Service Request VisibilityBeginning with Siebel 7.5, Person, Household, and Service Request can be made visible to multiple organizations, also called Business Units. Siebel 7.5 introduced several new tables to support this: The upgrade to Siebel 7.7 populates the S_CONTACT_BU, S_ORG_GROUP_BU, and S_SRV_REQ_BU tables with one record for each record in the S_CONTACT, S_ORG_GROUP, and S_SRV_REQ tables. After the upgrade, Contacts, Households, and Service Requests continue to be visible from the Business Unit they belonged to before the upgrade. Access Group and Userlist AttributesIn Siebel 7.5, two new Siebel Extension tables were added to the S_PARTY, S_PARTY_GROUP and S_USERLIST tables to hold Access Group and User List attributes, respectively. The upgrade to Siebel 7.7 adds records to the S_PARTY_GROUP and S_USERLIST tables for existing S_PARTY Access Group and User List records. To support Multi-Org visibility, the upgrade also adds corresponding intersection table records to the S_PARTY_GRP_BU and S_USERLIST_BU tables. Bulletin 476479.1 (Doc ID) on OracleMetalink 3 (previously published as Siebel Technical Note 312) provides guidance and best practices for implementing access control. This Bulletin includes background information about the Access Group access control mechanism implemented in Siebel CRM 7, discusses migration considerations, and outlines steps for deploying Access Group access for Siebel Business Applications. For detailed information about access control, see Security Guide for Siebel Business Applications. |
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