Creating and editing application roles

Typically, each application provides a prebuilt set of application roles. Additionally, you can use the predefined dashboards to add new application roles.

Note: You cannot add application roles to the business applications, or to EPM Administration.

Built-in roles are protected. You cannot modify, delete, or export them.

You can import roles from one application into another.

Note: Only users with administrative permissions for a specific application can edit permission assignments for application roles.

Select Dashboards > User and Permission Management > Manage Roles.
Click the Application Roles tab and select the application for which to create roles.
Click Add.
Specify a name and, optionally, a description.
In the Rank box, type or select a user role ranking. Click Create Role.
Because you can assign multiple roles to one user, it can become important to define which role inherits values that equip the user with specific settings. For a user with multiple roles, the settings for an application role with the highest rank are used.
Note: The smaller the number, the higher the rank. Zero value means that no rank is assigned to an application role.
Select the role to which to assign permissions.
The application permissions of the selected role are highlighted in the Permissions section.
Click the Edit icon next to the selected role and select or clear permissions in the Permissions section.
Click Save.
Optionally, click the Synchronize roles to OLAP icon.
To avoid unnecessary rebuilds of the security access cubes in the OLAP database, new and changed roles are not automatically synchronized with the database. The Synchronize roles to OLAP icon is colored yellow if there are unsynchronized changes.