Defining Application Services

Please refer to Understanding Application Security for a description of how application services are used when you grant user groups access rights to transactions and the significance of an application service's access modes.

You can access the portal using Admin > Security > Application Service. You are brought to a query portal with options for searching for a specific application service. Once a record has been selected you are brought to the maintenance portal to view and maintain the selected record.

Note: When introducing a new record, carefully consider its naming convention. Refer to System Data Naming Convention for more information.

The following zones may appear as part of the portal's Main tab page

  • The Application Service zone provides the information about the application service and its access modes.

  • The Secured Objects zone displays the object (or objects) that are secured by this application service. Refer to Secured Objects and Application Services for details about the types of objects that may be secured.

The Application Security tab includes zones to view and manage which user groups have access to the application service and which ones do not have access .The following zone may appear as part of this tab page:

  • The User Groups Linked zone lists the user groups that currently have a link to the application service. Note that expired links are included when the zone is first displayed. Use the zone filters to exclude expired links and to limit the user groups shown by user ID, user group ID, and user group description.

  • The User Groups not Linked zone lists the user groups that do not have a link to the application service. Use the zone filters to limit the user groups shown by user ID, user group ID, and user group description.