3 Managing Application Security

Security and access rights enable you to control access to Oracle Hyperion Financial Management applications and application elements. Setting up security enables you to protect data and prevent unauthorized users from changing data. For example, you can restrict access to certain data elements or forms within an application.

Security exists at two levels:

• Authentication by an external provider

• Financial Management security, in which users and groups are assigned to applications and application elements are assigned to security classes

There are two ways to set up security for Financial Management applications:

• Load a security file into an application. See Loading Application Security .

• Use the Oracle Hyperion Shared Services Console to set up security information. See Launching the Shared Services Console from Financial Management.

These security roles are required for application administration. For information on assigning roles, see the Oracle Enterprise Performance Management System User Security Administration Guide .

Security Role	Description
Financial Management Administrator	Required for accessing administration functionality.
Dimension Editor	Creates and manages import profiles for dimension creation, as well as creating and managing dimensions manually. Required to access Classic application administration options.
Financial Management Application Creator/Financial Management Manager	Creates applications. Users with this role can create applications, but can change only the dimensions to which they have access permissions. The Financial Management Application Creator can create Consolidation applications and Generic applications. To create applications, the user must also be a member of the Application Creators group specified in the Configuration Utility.