35 Working with Users Applications

Users applications let you manage a common set of enterprise users who can be associated with nodes in other applications in Oracle Enterprise Data Management Cloud. Nodes in Users applications do not count towards your record count.

The users that you manage in a Users app can be referenced in these ways:

• As node owners in approval workflows that use the Ownership approval method. See Understanding Ownership Approvals.

  Tip:

  If the Email Address property contains the email address of a valid user in Oracle Enterprise Data Management Cloud, that user can be designated as a node owner for ownership approval policies. See Predefined Properties for Users Applications.
• As reference data on nodes. For example, nodes in the Cost Center dimension of a Planning application can use a node data type property with the User subtype to reference users in a Users application as the cost center managers. See Node Data Type Subtypes.

Considerations

While other application types in Oracle Enterprise Data Management Cloud are generally used to govern enterprise data from an external application, Users applications are unique in that they are only used internally to manage your users. As such, they different from other application types in several important ways:

• You do not use a registration wizard to register a Users application. Instead, when you register a Users application, you provide a name for the application and the system automatically creates the data chain objects. See Registering Users Applications.
• The following integration operations are not available:
  • Import
  • Export
  • Extract
  • Mapping Export
• After you register a Users application, you cannot modify the registration from the application worklist. Inspect the application to make changes to the viewpoints or data chain objects.
• The following tabs are not available in the application inspector:
  • Registration
  • Connections