Understanding ChartField Security

PeopleSoft ChartField security provides a flexible, rule-based approach to administer security at a data level. ChartField security is supported in PeopleSoft Project Costing and across other PeopleSoft Financial and Supply Chain Management (FSCM) applications. The ChartField security feature prevents unauthorized employees and contractors from viewing and editing sensitive financial data by restricting access to data stored with specific ChartField values.

The primary features for ChartField security are:

• 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.

Project Costing excludes the Project ID field from ChartField Security because it considers the Project ID to be a Project Costing identifier field and not a project ChartField. Therefore, if the Project ID field is included in ChartField Security, Project Costing behaves as though the Project ID field is not part of ChartField Security.

For more information about securing ChartFields:

See Application Fundamentals: Securing ChartFields for PeopleSoft Project Costing.