Granting Access to Zones

An application service is associated with each zone. A user must be granted access rights to the respective application service in order to see a zone on a portal page.

Fastpath: Refer to The Big Picture Of Application Security for information about granting users access rights to an application service.

Please note the following in respect of how application security impacts a user's zones:

A user's Portal Preferences page contains a row for a zone regardless of whether the user has access rights to the zone. Because of this, the system displays an indication of the user's access rights to each zone.
If a user's access rights to a zone are revoked, the zone will be suppressed when the user navigates to the respective portal page.
Revoking a user's access rights does not change the user's portal preferences (i.e., a user can indicate they want to see a zone even if they don't have access to the zone - such a zone just won't appear when the respective portal page appears).

Note: If you don't need to use zone security. If your implementation gives all users access to all zones, simply set up a single "dummy" application service and define it on all of your zones. This way, you only have to grant security rights to this single application service to your user groups.