Forms Personalization

View-Only Access to Key Flexfield Values (Part 2)

Author: Lee Briggs Date: August 16th, 2011
Categories: Oracle E-Business Suite R12

In my last post, I walked through the process for restricting specific responsibilities from creating or updating Key Flexfield Segment Values.  For smaller companies with the same people doing multiple functions, this could be enough to meet this requirement.  For my client, this restriction wasn’t enough.  They needed to prevent specific responsibilities from seeing specific Flexfields, Titles, Structures, and Segments.

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View-Only Access to Key Flexfield Values (Part 1)

Author: Lee Briggs Date: August 9th, 2011
Categories: Oracle E-Business Suite R12, Oracle Supply Chain Management

Many of my clients were initially surprised that, while Oracle provides a form to create and edit segment values, there is no seeded method to provide view-only access.  Some have been further surprised to find out there was no seeded method to restrict access to specific segments.

A client of mine, a global financial institution, had identified 80 individuals who would require view-only access to all the segments in 2 Charts of accounts, and I was able to meet this challenge using 2 separate forms personalizations.  I’ll discuss restricting access to specific modules, flexfields, structures, and segments in a follow-up blog entry, but for now, let’s look at preventing specific responsibilities from creating or editing segment values.

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