1. Securing HCM
  2. Simulate Navigator Menus

Simulate Navigator Menus

You can simulate the Navigator menus for both users and roles. This feature can help you to identify how access is provided to specific work areas and tasks. You may need this information when creating roles, for example.

Simulate the Navigator for a Role

Follow these steps:

  1. On the Roles tab of the Security Console, search for the role, which can be of any type.

  2. In the search results, select Simulate Navigator in the Actions menu for the role. The Simulate Navigator page opens. Icons may appear against Navigator entries. In particular:

    • The Lock icon indicates that the role can't access the entry.

    • The Warning icon indicates that the entry may not appear in the Navigator as the result of configuration, for example.

    Entries without either of these icons are available to the role.

Tip: To view just the entries that the role can access, set Show to Access granted.

View Roles That Grant Access to a Navigator Entry

For any entry in the Navigator, regardless of whether it's available to the role, you can identify the roles that grant access. Follow these steps:

  1. Click the entry.

  2. Select View Roles That Grant Access.

  3. In the Roles That Grant Access dialog box, review the list of roles. The roles can be of all types. After reviewing this list, you can decide how to enable this access, if appropriate. For example, you may decide to provision an abstract role to a user or add an aggregate privilege to a custom role.

  4. Click OK to close the Roles That Grant Access dialog box.

View Privileges Required for Menu

For any entry in the Navigator, regardless of whether it's available to the role, you can identify the privileges that grant access to:

  • The Navigator entry

  • Tasks in the associated work area

Follow these steps:

  1. Click the entry.

  2. Select View Privileges Required for Menu.

  3. In the View Privileges for Work Area Access dialog box, review the list of privileges that grant access to:

    • The Navigator menu item

    • Task panel entries in the associated work area. In the Access Granted column of this table, you can see whether the selected role can access these tasks.

    You can use this information when creating roles, for example. You can identify how to both add and remove access to specific tasks and work areas.

  4. Click OK to close the View Privileges for Work Area Access dialog box.

  5. Click Close to close the Simulate Navigator page.

Simulate the Navigator for a User

Search for the user on the Roles tab of the Security Console and select Simulate Navigator in the Actions menu for the user. Follow the instructions for simulating the Navigator for a role.