Project profiles define a user's access to each project according to a specified OBS element. The specified OBS element determines which work breakdown structure (WBS) elements, activities, issues, and thresholds the user can edit in a project.
The OBS is a global hierarchy that represents the management responsible for the projects in your enterprise. The OBS hierarchy is used primarily to grant users specific access privileges to projects and to the WBS levels within projects. To access a project, a user must have access permissions for an OBS element within the project. This provides user access to WBS information for which the specified OBS element is responsible, as well as limits user access to WBS information that may lie beyond the user's scope.
When P6 Professional is connected to a P6 Professional database, profiles and corresponding privileges are defined using the Security Profiles dialog box and are associated with the login name of the user. Given a user's set of OBS assignments, the user has access to all EPS nodes and projects assigned these OBS elements and their child OBS elements. The user will also inherit access to all child EPS nodes and projects as defined by the EPS hierarchy.
When P6 Professional is connected to a P6 EPPM database Profiles and corresponding privileges are defined using P6. Given a user's set of OBS assignments, the user has access to all EPS nodes and projects assigned these OBS elements. The user will also inherit access to all child EPS nodes and projects as defined by the EPS hierarchy.
When you assign users to OBS elements using their login names, the security profile is automatically associated.
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- You can assign a user a security profile for any number of enterprise OBS nodes.