Security and access control

Change Management controls access to Change Management functions by following the steps below:

  1. Change Management checks the user’s operator record for capability words that determine which, if any, of the functional areas within Change Management the user can access.
  2. If the user has the right capability words to access Change Management functional areas, the system searches for the user ’s Change Management Profile record, based on the User Role specified in the Operator record.
  3. If the Profile record is blank, Change Management checks the Environment record to determine if it can use the default Profile record to enable access to certain functions.
  4. If no default profile exists for the specific function, the system searches for the default profile for all areas.
  5. Change Management enables the user to access those functions permitted by the user role or default Profile record.

Depending on the conditions in the phase definition record, a user might not be able to update a change or task, even if granted the general capability to do so in the User Role profile record.