Authority Manager

Introduction

What is Authority Manager?

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Definitions

Granting authority

Authority views

Tools

Summary

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Current Authority View

Actions you can do on the person view - granting, editing, or revoking - are limited by the amount of grantable authority you have. (Or, if you are acting as an authority-granting proxy for someone else, that person's authority will determine what you can do.)

If you have no grantable authority, the grant, edit, and revoke options will not appear.

If you have some grantable authority: when you click to edit or revoke an authority assignment, the system will check that you have sufficient authority to grant that same assignment - if so, you can edit or revoke it; if not, you will be prevented from modifying the assignment.

Person View

Grant new authority Grant new authority to the person identified in this view. (The Grant Wizard will begin at step 2, with step 1 pre-selected.)
Authority views - Select List The select list represents either a set of current or recently revoked assignment or proxy settings.
Organization

Within each section, assignments are grouped by the organization to which they are scoped. The organization name and code are shown in the blue bar; listed below it are all the privileges the person has in that organization. Currently, the organizations are sorted alphabetically by name. The organization name is linked: you can click it to see its organization view.

Assignment

Each alternating white or grey row represents one assignment. Each assignment shows:

  • the business function
  • the privilege
  • when it was granted
  • who granted it (and if that person was represented by an authority-granting proxy)
  • all the limits for the assignment
  • all the conditions for the assignment
  • whether this person can extend (grant) the privilege
edit Limits

If you have sufficient authority, you can edit the limits of an assignment. When you click the icon or link, the Grant Wizard will open at step 5. If the assignment has more than one limit type (e.g. an approval limit and a selection of projects), use the Next and Back buttons to view and edit each one.
Not available in the My Authority view.

edit Conditions

If you have sufficient authority, you can edit the conditions of an assignment. When you click the icon or link, the Grant Wizard will open at step 6. You can change:

  • the expiry condition (by setting or removing an override end date)
  • the can/cannot/can only grant condition

Not available in the My Authority view.

Pending prerequisites

If an authority assignment has not yet taken effect, because the person has not completed the prerequisite training, the "pending prerequisites" status will be shown. Click the more info...icon to see which prerequisites are incomplete. (The system checks a list, provided by the Training Management System, of people who have completed each defined prerequisite.)

Revoke All, Revoke

If you have sufficient authority, you can revoke or revoke all by authority subsystem or click a revoke button to inactivate the authority assignment in that specific row.
Not available in the My Authority view.

 

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