Understanding the Sign-In Role Chooser

When signing in to EnterpriseOne, if the Role Chooser is enabled, users can use the Role Chooser to select a particular role from a list of valid roles. In the Role Chooser, users can either select a particular role or *ALL. You can limit the freedom that a user has to select roles by disabling the Role Chooser. With the Role Chooser disabled, the user must enter EnterpriseOne with *ALL.

At the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne sign-in form, the user enters a user ID and password. The user must then enter a valid environment and role before entering EnterpriseOne. User roles and assigned environments are dependent on each other. The user can select an environment, which then determines the roles that appear in the Role Chooser; or the user can select a role, which determines the environments that appear in the Environment Chooser.

The option for enabling the Role Chooser is a global setting. When enabled, it applies to all users in the system.

This table summarizes the scenarios that can occur when the user encounters the Environment and Role fields at sign-in on the Microsoft Windows client, and the behavior of EnterpriseOne in each scenario:

Sign-in Scenario	JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Behavior
User enters values in both the Environment and Role fields.	The software validates the role against the environment. If the role is not valid for the chosen environment, the Environment Chooser appears and the user must choose a valid environment for the role.
User enters a value only in the Role field.	The Environment Chooser displays only the valid environments for the chosen role.
User enters a value only the Environment field.	The Role Chooser displays only the valid roles for the user and the chosen environment.
User does not enter a value in either the Environment field or the Role field.	The Role Chooser appears, containing the valid roles for the user and the default environment that is defined in the jde.ini file, followed by the Environment Chooser, containing only the valid environments for the chosen role. If you do not enter an environment, the Role Chooser displays the roles that are assigned to the default environment, which is defined in the jde.ini file.