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Understanding Roles

A Role is a CA OM Web Viewer definition, a tool used like a profile with settings and choices that allow or limit system permissions and privileges.

The System Administrator or Group Administrator (GA) assigns all privileges and permissions to a Role object, not to an individual. The Group Administrator can then assign all those individual users to the Role as needed. This creates a group of people who each have all the system access capabilities associated with that role,

Administrators design and maintain Roles to control user permissions and their access to data, databases, repositories, and reports in the system.

Roles make the designation of privileges much less labor intensive:

• Several hundred users can have their privileges set or adjusted at one time by simply modifying the role.
• When a user is promoted or reassigned, the Group Administrator doesn’t have to change privilege, he or she can simply assign that user to a different existing Role that has all the privileges necessary for the new job.
• An individual user be assigned more than one Role.