Action Level Security

When you grant a user group access to an application service, you must indicate the actions to which they have access.

  • For application services that only query the database, there is a single action to which you must provide access - this is called Inquire.
  • For application services that can modify the database, you must define the actions that the user may perform. At a minimum, most maintenance transactions support Add, Change, and Inquire actions. Additional actions are available depending on the application service's functions.
CAUTION: Important! If an application service supports actions that modify the database other than Add, Change, and Delete; you must provide the user with Change access in addition to the other access rights. Consider a transaction that supports special actions in addition to Add, Change, and Inquire (e.g., Freeze, Complete, Cancel). If you want to give a user access to any of these special actions, you must also give the user access to the Inquire and Change actions.