Guidelines for Editing Role Mappings

On the Edit Role Mapping page, you can update a role mapping. Changes that you make to start and end dates, role-mapping conditions, and the associated roles may affect current role provisioning. This topic describes when such changes take effect.

To edit a role mapping, perform the Manage Role Provisioning Rules task in the Setup and Maintenance work area.

Making Changes to Roles That Were Provisioned Automatically

Changes to roles that were provisioned automatically take effect as soon as one of the following occurs:

• The Autoprovision Roles for All Users process runs.

  This process compares all current user assignments with all current role mappings and updates role provisioning as appropriate. You're recommended to run this process after creating or editing role mappings. You should also run this process after loading person records in bulk if no role mapping exists for those person records before the load.

• A human resource (HR) specialist or line manager clicks Apply Autoprovisioning on the Manage User Account or Edit User page for individual users affected by the role mapping.

  This action compares the user's current assignments with all current role mappings and updates the user's roles as appropriate.

• An HR specialist or line manager creates or updates assignments of users affected by the role mapping.

  These actions cause a user's roles to be reevaluated.

Making Changes to Requestable Roles

Changes to requestable roles take effect immediately. If you remove a requestable role from the role mapping or change the role-mapping conditions, then:

• Users who currently have the role keep it.

  Users such as line managers provision requestable roles manually to other users. Users lose manually provisioned roles automatically only when all of their work relationships are terminated. Otherwise, users keep manually provisioned roles until you deprovision them manually.

• Users who could provision the role to other users can no longer do so, unless they satisfy any revised role-mapping conditions.

Making Changes to Self-Requestable Roles

Changes to self-requestable roles take effect immediately. If you remove a self-requestable role from the role mapping or change the role-mapping conditions, then:

• Users who currently have the role keep it.

  Users lose manually provisioned roles automatically only when all of their work relationships are terminated. Otherwise, users keep manually provisioned roles until you deprovision them manually.

• Users who could request the role can no longer do so, unless they satisfy any revised role-mapping conditions.