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Specify Run-Time Security Properties

You can specify run-time security properties for both Process and Schedule objects. These properties establish whether and how the system verifies user permissions when users attempt to access automation objects from the database.

Follow these steps:

1. Click the Library tab.
2. Select a folder, right-click a Process or Schedule object, and then select Properties.
3. From the Properties pane, click the Runtime Security tab.

   Note: See the tooltips or the User Interface Reference for field descriptions.

4. Under Runtime Security, perform one of the following tasks:
   • Inherit enabled security settings from the Orchestrator, if applicable. This value is the default.
   • Select Enable from the drop-down list. This option lets the product verify user permissions when accessing objects in the process.

     The Process objects are typically designed to access other objects to read or run while it runs, such as when one process triggers another process. If it is enabled, the product uses run-time security to verify that the user (the owner or caller) has permissions to access the object. For example, User A has permissions to start a process. This process attempts to access Object B and Object C. The product cross-checks permissions for each object. If the run-time security determines that the user does not have permissions to Object B, the process fails.

   • Select Disable to disable the validation and enforcement of process ownership at run time. This option provides backward compatibility for existing processes and lets these processes run as they did before this release.
5. Complete the run-time security configuration for your Process objects using the following options. Maintenance of the Run as Owner check box requires that you either own the process or are an Environment Content Administrator.
   • Run the process as the user who started the process instance.

     a. From the Runtime Security field, click Enable.

     b. Clear Run as Owner.

     This option enforces run-time security rights with the identity of the user who starts the process instance.

   • Run the process as the owner.

     a. From the Runtime Security field, click Enable.

     b. Select Run as Owner.

     This option enforces run-time security rights with the identity of the owner, regardless of who starts the process instance. This allows users to start a process that gains access to elements that the owner wishes to protect.

   • Select the Enable Operator Recovery check box to recover automatically specific operators that fail with a SYSTEM_ERROR.
6. Click Save.

More information:

Guidelines for Setting Runtime Security for a Process