This appendix covers the following topics:
Use function security to control user access to Oracle Assets functions. By default, access to Oracle Assets functionality is NOT restricted; you must ask your system administrator to customize your responsibilities to restrict access. Your system administrator customizes each responsibility at your site by including or excluding registered functions and menus of functions for a responsibility in the Responsibilities form.
For example, your system administrator creates a Fixed Assets Clerk responsibility that allows asset additions in the QuickAdditions form, but does not allow retirements. When you sign on, select the Fixed Assets Clerk responsibility, and open the Asset Workbench, the QuickAdditions button appears, but the Retirements button is hidden.
The following examples are common results that enforcing function security may produce:
Form or menu does not appear in the Navigator window
Note: Some forms and menus, when excluded from a responsibility, may affect more than one window or function. For example, if you exclude the Depreciation menu, you also exclude the Run Depreciation, Depreciation Projections, and Calculate Gains and Losses windows. Similarly, if you exclude the Tax Workbench, you also exclude the Investment Tax Credits and Reserve Adjustments windows.
Button is hidden
Note: Some buttons access more than one window or function. For example, use the 'New' button to perform a detail addition (Asset Details, Books, and Assignments windows).
Field is not updateable
Use function security to control any of the Oracle Assets functions included in the table below:
| User Function Name | Restriction(s) |
|---|---|
| Assets:Open | Change descriptive details in the Asset Details window. |
| Assets:New | Add assets using the Detail Additions process in the Asset Details, Books, and Assignments windows. NOTE: You also can access these windows separately. So, if you allow detail additions (Assets:New) but not transfers (Assets:Assignments), you can access the Assignments window only when performing a detail addition. |
| Assets:QuickAdditions | Add assets using the QuickAdditions process in the QuickAdditions window |
| Assets:Assignments | Perform transfers in the Assignments window |
| Assets:Books | Perform financial adjustments in any book in the Books window |
| Assets:Source Lines | View and adjust source lines in the Source Lines window |
| Assets:Retirements | Retire an asset in the Retirements window |
| Assets:Reinstatements | Reinstate previous retirements, Undo Retirement, or Undo Reinstatement, depending on the status of the retirement transaction in the Retirements window |
| Assets:Subcomponents | View subcomponents in the Subcomponents window |
| Assets:Adjust Source Lines | Transfer or partially transfer lines or amounts in the Source Lines window |
| Assets:Transfer Source Lines | Transfer source lines between assets (Transfer To) in the Source Lines window |
| Assets:Manual Asset Numbers | Enter an asset number in the Asset Number field of the Detail and QuickAdditions, and Mass Additions windows. This function enforces automatic asset numbering |
| Assets:Change Number | Update asset number in the Asset Number field of the Asset Detail window |
| Assets:Change Description | Update asset description in the Description field of the Asset Detail window |
| Assets:Reclassifications | Perform reclassifications (change the category) in the Category field of the Asset Details window |
| Assets:Unit Adjustments | Adjust units in the Units field of the Asset Details window |
| Assets:Unplanned Depreciation | Enter unplanned depreciation for an asset in the Unplanned Depreciation window |
| Mass Additions:Delete All | Change the status of all mass additions lines to DELETE. |
| Mass Additions:Hold All | Change the status of all mass additions lines to ON HOLD. |
| Mass Additions:Post | Change the status of all mass additions lines to POST. |
| Mass Additions:Split | Split and unsplit mass additions in the Mass Additions window |
| Mass Additions:Add to Asset | Add mass additions to existing assets or remove mass additions from an asset in the Mass Additions window |
| Mass Additions:Merge | Merge or unmerge mass additions in the Mass Additions window |
| Mass Additions:Open | Prepare mass additions in the Prepare Mass Additions window |
| Tax Workbench:Assign ITC | Assign ITC to an asset in the Investment Tax Credits window |
| Tax Workbench:Adjust Reserve | Adjust tax book accumulated depreciation in the Reserve Adjustments window |
| Tax Workbench:Add to Tax Book | Add an asset to a tax book |
Related Topics
Overview of Function Security, Oracle Applications System Administrator's Guide
How Function Security Works, Oracle Applications System Administrator's Guide
Implementing Function Security, Oracle Applications System Administrator's Guide
Defining a New Menu Structure, Oracle Applications System Administrator's Guide