Setting Up Roles and Responsibilities for Labor Distribution: Overview

This playbook offers conceptual and procedural guidance that enables administrators to set up security for Labor Distribution. You can extend these setups depending on how your organization manages labor schedules.

When you set up users and roles for labor distribution, you must first set up the required roles first and related data security. These roles also secure data security on HR objects, which is a relatively unique approach within Projects.

In Labor Distribution, we leverage the HR security model for persons and pay elements. For the Labor Distribution Administrator, for example, we use the Projects framework as well as the Human Capital Management framework, because we're enabling customers to define labor schedules by business unit, and Projects secures the business unit object using the Manage Data Access task.

Therefore, when you set up users and roles for Labor Distribution:

1. You set up the required roles.
2. You assign these roles to users.
3. You then provide a security context for each user, restricting their access to data from specific business units (areas of responsibility).

This playbook offers the following information:

• Understanding Labor Distribution Roles: Describes labor distribution related roles and lists out key pages associated with their tasks.
• Creating Labor Distribution Roles: Offers guidance on creating custom roles for labor distribution.
• Preparing Labor Distribution Roles for Use: Explains how you can provide appropriate data security and functionality access to labor distribution roles.
• Labor Distribution User Setup: Provides detailed information on how you can set up users for working with Labor Distribution.