An assigned rule is used to set up data authorization that is specific for an employee. These rules are mostly used to deal with exceptional scenarios.

Characteristics of the data that is specific to a business process to which the permission is linked and are used to define permissions. For example, in Project Management a characteristics of a project, such as project group, can be used to define permissions for employees who are only allowed to work with projects of a certain project group.

The user's permission to use specific terminals or sessions.

An authorization policy is used to set up data authorization for a group of employees, irrespective of the roles.

An authorization role is used to set up data authorization for a set of employees with the same role.

A working environment in which you can carry out logistic or financial transactions. All the transaction data is stored in the company's database.

Depending on the type of data that the company controls, the company is:

• A logistic company.
• A financial company.
• A logistic and a financial company.

In a multicompany structure, some of the database tables can be unique for the company and the company can share other database tables with other companies.

A human member of an organization model. Typically, employees are users who carry out activities with the Worklist Handler.

A person who works at your company who has a specific function such as sales representative, production planner, buyer, or credit analyst.

An organizational unit of employees. For example, sales department or purchase department.

One or more sessions and/or shell scripts that LN executes without user interaction. You can schedule jobs to run periodically or at a specified time.

Permissions are the authorization roles, rules, and policies for a specific business process. The permissions are assigned to employees. The permissions are used to specify the authorization level, that is, if an employee can view, edit, or modify the data of a business process. For example, you can access the projects of a specific Enterprise Unit in a Project session. However, based on the permissions you can only view, but cannot modify the project data.

An endeavor with a specific objective to be met within the prescribed time and financial limitation, and that has been assigned for definition or execution.