Query and Definition Security

You use PeopleSoft Query to build SQL queries and retrieve information from application tables. For each PeopleSoft Query user, you can specify the records the user is allowed to access when building and running queries. You do this by creating query access groups in PeopleSoft Tree Manager, and then assigning users to those groups with PeopleSoft Query security. PeopleSoft Query security is enforced only when using PeopleSoft Query; it doesn’t control runtime page access to table data.

Use Definition Security to govern access to PeopleSoft Application Designer definitions, such as record definitions, field definitions, and page definitions, and to protect particular definitions from being modified by developers.