Permission Sets

A permission set contains individual permissions.

Each permission identifies the object for which permission is given, the conditions that must be met, the type of access to be granted on the object, and the attribute groups the team can access.

For example, the administrator wants to give component engineers based out of New York City or Houston permission to view all manufacturers and restrict manage permission to some US manufacturers. Additionally, provide access to the attribute group named Dimension.

Before you configure the attribute groups for the team, you must run the Upgrade Product Management Data scheduled process to grant access to the attribute groups.

Here are some details on permission sets:

• The permission sets that you create appear for selection on the Permission Sets tab when you create a team.
• A permission set can be assigned to multiple teams.
• You can control access to attribute groups when using the View and Manage permissions.
• You can’t control access to attribute groups when using the Create permission.
• If you make any updates to the permission sets with conditions containing extensible flexfield attributes, you must rebuild the index for the object to apply the updates made to the access control list.
• When the State attribute (on a manufacturer) is modified or added in a condition used in a permission set, you must rebuild the index for manufacturer objects to apply the updates.
• To view a listing of the permission sets that have already been created, see the Search Permission Sets page. On the search page,
  • You can search for specific permission sets and sort the list of permission sets by the columns.
  • Click the permission set name to see details of the permission set.

Create a Permission Set

1. On the Tasks panel tab, click Configure Teams.
2. Select Permission Sets from the Product Management Search drop-down list.
3. Click Create on the Search Permission Sets page and enter the details for the permission set:
   1. Name: Unique name of the permission set.
   2. Description: Short description on the permission set.
   3. Object: Select the object for which you want to create the permission. For example, Manufacturer.
   4. Condition: Select a condition from the list of available conditions or you can also click Create Condition to create a new condition.

      The condition helps narrow down the object by applying filters on object attributes.

   5. Permission: Permissions are listed according to the selected object. Select a permission based on the actions you want the team to perform on the object. For the manufacturer object, the available permissions include Create, View, and Manage.

      Create: Allows user to create the manufacturer.

      View: Allows the user to see the manufacturer attributes in read-only format.

      Manage: Allows the user to view and edit a manufacturer.

      Access To: Select the attribute groups the team can access.

      Note that this is disabled when you select the Create privilege, which means users can access all attribute groups when creating a manufacturer.

4. Click Save.