Create domains to represent distinct functional or regional areas in an organization such as regional offices or departments. Domains can have No Parent (if they are the first hierarchy level) or one parent (if they are a lower hierarchy level). Application designers can associate business objects such as maps, measures, employees, initiatives and scorecards, with domains. For example, in the following hierarchy the parent of North America and Europe is Global; and the parent of Sales Canada:
Level 1 Global
Level 2: North America
Level 3: Canada
Level 4: Human Resources Canada
Level 4: Sales Canada
Level 3: Mexico
Level 4: Human Resources Mexico
Level 4: Sales Mexico
Level 3: USA
Level 4: Human Resources USA
Level 4: Sales USA
Level 2: Europe
Level 3: France
Because domains can contain sensitive information, specify the level of information that users can access in each domain. Grant implicit access to provide full access to data in lower-level domains that you select, and read-only access to higher level domains that you select. Grant explicit access to enable access only to specific domains. Using the sample hierarchy above, the following applies:
Users granted access to North America with implicit access get full access and access Global, North America, Europe, Canada, Mexico, USA, France, Germany, and all Human Resources and Sales domains.
Users granted access to Europe, without the implicit option, also have full access to the France, and Germany, and read access to data in the Global domain.
Users granted explicit access to Europe, without the implicit option, can only access Europe.