ChartField Security

PeopleSoft ChartField security provides a flexible, rule-based approach to administer security at a data level. ChartField security is supported in PeopleSoft Billing and across other PeopleSoft Financials and Supply Chain Management (FSCM) applications.

The main functions performed by ChartField security are to:

• Enforce security rules by user, role, or permission list.

• Enable ChartField security for all products or selectively by product.

• Enable or disable ChartField security selectively by component.

• Define rules to accommodate end-user areas of responsibility.

• Refine access rules by product feature or component.

• Support super user access to minimize setup.

• Define components as exceptions to override security rules.

Note:

The component registry entries for the Billing components are delivered with only a subset of detail records enabled for ChartField Security. You can enable or disable the detail records from ChartField Security depending on the business requirements. Keep in mind that each detail record that is enabled adds overhead to open the component.

In the Billing product, many chartfields and distribution codes are provided as defaults. Therefore it is possible for a chartfield to default onto a bill that a particular user is creating that they do not have access to. In this case the user will be allowed to save the bill with the information that was given as default. But when the user tries to view that transaction after leaving the component, they will get a ChartField Security error.