Setting Up Security

PeopleSoft applications use the capabilities and flexibility of multilevel security to provide an efficient, effective solution to security issues. PeopleSoft Pay/Bill Management leverages the existing departmental security provided by the PeopleSoft Human Capital Management (HCM) database for employees. Additionally, the PeopleSoft Pay/Bill Management applicant and employee components in the Financials database also have departmental security.

Based on the departmental security setup, users are granted or denied access to employee data based on the organizational hierarchy that you define in the security tree. Departmental security must be configured both in the HCM and Financials databases.

When you grant users access to a department ID on the security tree, you automatically grant them access to employee data in any department that reports (directly or indirectly) to that department ID, unless you restrict access to a specific department.

Using departmental security, grant and deny access to employee data by using row-level permission lists. Users are assigned a row-level permission list granting them access to data in certain departments.