Default Roles

Use

You use Default Roles to specify roles the application assigns to a user automatically during provisioning.

Process

To create default roles:

  1. Choose Create.

  2. Select an Attribute and Attribute Value, and then choose Add.

  3. Select a system and a role name from the respective columns.

  4. Save the entries.

Example

You have two roles for inventory employees in your system: Inventory_Clerk and Inventory_Manager. You used Default Roles to specify that the application use the role Inventory_Clerk, if a user access request for system Inventory01 contains the attribute Subprocess, attribute value Check_Inventory, and no specific role name.

Attribute

Subprocess

Attribute Value

Check_Inventory

System

Inventory01

Role Name

Inventory_Clerk

Two employees submitted access requests with the following results:

  • Employee_01 specified only that they required authorization for the Check_Inventory subprocess. The application automatically provisions their access with the default role Inventory_Clerk.

  • Employee_02 specified that they required authorization for the Check_Inventory subprocess and for the role Inventory_Manager. The application provisions their access with two roles: Inventory_Clerk and Inventory_Manager.