To define user access to self-service functions, you need to define a user, assign a responsibility, assign profile values, and assign a menu to the responsibility. The following process takes you through the separate procedures.

We recommend that you create a different responsibility for each target group of users.

   To define a responsibility for a self-service application:

1. Follow the standard procedure for creating a responsibility.

   See: Defining a Responsibility

2. Define your responsibilities to be available from Oracle Self-Service Web Applications.

3. Consider whether you should create menu or function exclusions to restrict the employee and contingent worker menus.

   To set your system profiles:

1. Set the system profiles for security groups.

   If Security Groups are not enabled, use the System Profile Values window to link your responsibility to a security profile in the appropriate Business Group.

   If Security Groups are enabled, you can set the security profile at the user level using the Assign Security Profiles window.

   Note: Self-Service Benefits users: If you do not link your responsibility to your business group using the HR:Security Profile, any benefits participants who attempt to enroll will receive an error message indicating that they cannot enroll.

2. Set any additional required profiles.

   • HR: Security Profile

   • HR:Cross Business Group (if you want users to be able to select employees from different business groups in lists of values)

   • HR:Restrict Transactions across Business Groups in SSHR (if you want to stop your users from performing transactions on employees from different business groups. This profile option works together with the HR:Cross Business Group profile option).

   • HR:Personal Actions Menu (for SSHR)

   • HR: Manager Actions Menu (for SSHR)

   Note: You need to restart the Apache listener after changing profile options.

   To define a user:

• Define the people you would like to access Self-Service. There are two ways to do this. You can follow the typical steps for defining a new user and then assign each individual user to a responsibility that enables access to self-service benefits.

See: Users Window

Alternatively, you can set up concurrent programs to automate this manual process.

See: Creating Batch User Accounts with Concurrent Programs