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Access Control Overview

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In Siebel application terms, a screen is a collection of views. The screen represents a broad area of functionality, such as working with accounts. To the user, a view is simply one Web page. Within a view, the user may see lists of data records or forms presenting individual records. These lists and forms are also referred to as applets in a configuration context.

In Figure 14, the My Accounts view of the Accounts screen is shown, as indicated by the selected Accounts screen tab and the display of My Accounts in the Show drop-down list. This view includes an Accounts list and an accompanying form with detail for the selected account.

Figure 14.  My Accounts View

Basic access control consists of the following:

View-level access control. You allow a user to see only the views that you want the user to see.
Record-level access control. You allow a user to see only the data records that you want the user to see.

View-level access control mechanisms include filtering of available views at the application level, and through a user's responsibilities, or sets of views, assigned to the user.

For more information about implementing view-level access control, see Implementing Basic Access Control.

You can use several different access control mechanisms to associate data with users or groups of users. You can also create hierarchical organizations of users, and of data, to facilitate the implementation of access control.

The sections that follow examine access control further:

Data. The type of data and whether the data is categorized determines which access control mechanisms can be applied. For details, see Access Control for Data.
Parties. People, entities representing people, and collections of people are unified as parties. Different party types have different access control mechanisms available. For details, see Access Control for Parties, Party Data Model, and How Parties Relate to Each Other.
Access control mechanisms. Access control mechanisms you apply to parties and data determines what data a user sees. For details, see About Access Control Mechanisms.

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