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Roles Overlap – Choose Whether to Merge

Two roles that are presumed to be very similar can be examined using the View Roles Overlap option and, if judged to be worthy of being designated as the same role, can be automatically merged. This option is only available from the right-click menu.

To activate the View Roles Overlap option

1. Highlight the two roles in a configuration menu.
2. Right-click on the highlighted roles.
3. Select View Roles Overlap and Choose Whether to Merge from the right-click controls menu.

   The Merge Role Definitions window opens.

   The Merge Roles Definition window provides statistics on the users, resources, sub-roles and parent roles of each of the two roles and shows statistics on the degree to which they are the same.

   The following options are available:

   Merge Into

   Merges one role into the other.

   Empty

   Deletes selected items from the role.

   Make Alias (Parent)

   Makes the selected role a parent.

   Leave As-Is

   Does not make any changes to the roles.

   Merge Users

   Select this option to merge users.

   Merge Resources

   Select this option to merge resources.

   Merge Sub-roles

   Select this option to merge sub-roles.

   Merge Parent Roles

   Select this option to merge parent roles.

   Select the options you want.

4. Click OK to make the selected changes.