Types of Access Groups

There are two types of access groups: Custom (the ones you create) and System (the ones Oracle provides).

• Custom access groups

  Custom access groups are groups you create to provide users with access to data according to the needs of your business. You can add members to these groups, define rules to specify the access that group members should have to object data, and edit or delete the groups as required.

• System access groups

  These are access groups Oracle creates for you. A separate group is created for each of the predefined job roles in your environment and for the Resource abstract role. Predefined object sharing rules associated with each group provide the same access to data as is provided by the predefined job roles. The predefined rules are active and enabled for each group by default.

  A system access group is also created for each of the custom job roles in your environment, but these system groups aren't associated with predefined rules. You can manually add predefined or custom rules to these system groups as required.

  You can't edit, create, or delete system access groups. You also can't add members to or delete members from these groups. Users are automatically added to or removed from system groups according to the job roles that they're assigned.

On the Access Groups UI, the Type field indicates whether a group is a system group or a custom group. Custom groups are displayed by default. You can choose the type of group you want to view from the List drop-down list.