Roles and Role Manager

What are Roles in Lawson Portal?

A role is a set of attributes that specifies access in Lawson Portal for users who have been assigned the role.

You can create special roles for types of users who all need the same access rights. For example, if you have users who only add or update data but do not create jobs and reports, you could create a role for a data entry user (dataentry.xml) that would not allow access to jobs and reports menus. For jobs and reports users, you could create another role (jobsandreports.xml). Although a system can have multiple special roles, a user can have only one role for Lawson Portal. You must include all user needs in the role file.

Creating custom roles is optional. If you choose not to create at least one custom role, access for all users is governed by a Lawson-delivered default role file (default.xml).

Most customers choose to create multiple custom roles, including a custom default role that can be assigned to most users.

What is Role Manager?

Through Role Manager, you can create roles that let you manage access to Lawson Portal features, including:

• Jobs and Reports

• User Options (various options primarily for customizing features related to operation of applications and data retrieval but have some other uses as well)

• Searching

• Keyboard customization (hotkeys)

• Menus and shortcuts

• Bookmark Subscription Locks

• Some specialized performance options (Use compact transaction, Use local cache)