Understanding User Profile Types

When deploying your applications to the internet, you potentially can generate thousands of different user profiles. In some situations, you may need to aggregate your user profiles by category. For example, ID types enable you to use employee ID numbers that begin at 1 as well as customer ID numbers that begin at 1.

User profile types also provide a way to link user profiles with data stored in application-specific records. PeopleSoft applications primarily need this link for self-service transactions. For example, you want employees to see only their own benefits, or you want customers to view and pay only their own bills. Customer ID, Employee ID, and so on are the keys for the application data. User profile types enable the system to find the correct ID based on the user profile. The system needs the value because personal data and vendor contact data may have the same key field. Because personal data and vendor contact data resides in different records, no edit exists that will prevent the two records from having the same key.

This table lists the profile types that PeopleSoft delivers:

ID Type	Description
BID	Bidder
CNT	Customer Contact
CST	Customer
EJA	External Job Applicant
EMP	Employee
NON	None
ORG	Organization ID
PER	Person (CRM)
VND	Vendor
PTN	Partner