Role Types

Oracle Student Management Cloud has these types of roles: job roles, abstract roles, and duty roles.

Job Roles

Job roles are for the jobs that people in an organization do. Bursar and Registrar are examples of predefined job roles. You can create your own job roles too.

Abstract Roles

Abstract roles represent people in the enterprise independently of the jobs they do. Employee and Transactional Business Intelligence Worker are examples of predefined abstract roles. You can also create your own abstract roles.

You can assign abstract roles directly to users. You will likely assign at least one abstract role to all users so that they have access to a set of standard functions, such as managing their own information and searching the worker directory.

Duty Roles

Duty roles are for a logical collection of privileges that grant access to tasks. Instruct Class and Fee Assessment are examples of predefined duty roles.

You don't assign duty roles directly to users. Job roles and abstract roles can inherit duty roles directly or indirectly.

Duty roles differ from aggregate privileges in these ways:

• You can create duty roles, and edit, and copy them. Aggregate privileges, however, are predefined, and you can't create, modify, or copy them.

• Duty roles inherit aggregate privileges and other duty roles. Aggregate roles don't.

• Duty roles include multiple function security privileges.

Summary of differences

Here are the differences between the role types.

Role type	Create	Predefined	Assign directly to users
Job role	Yes	Yes	Yes
Abstract role	Yes	Yes	Yes
Duty role	No	Yes	No