Authority Manager is a Stanford-developed web application that allows you to view and grant authority across the many administrative applications on campus. It is designed to allow the right person to grant authority to others in a distributed environment. For each administrative system, an individual may have access to view, enter, or approve privileged information. This access is determined by their authority. Authority Manager is the place to see what authority any person has, or to grant them additional authority.
Authority is granted based on three main criteria: business function, organization, and a specific privilege.
| business function | A set of privileges that represent a defined University
business activity. Examples: Admissions; Financial Aid, Payroll, Time/Leave. |
| organization | Any department or group in the Official University Org Hierarchy. All privileges are granted in the context of an organization. |
| privilege | A specific task or set of tasks that can be granted to an individual. Privileges are self-contained - for example, the "administer leave" privilege covers all the data and tasks required to do that job, in all affected business systems. |
| limit | Privileges of different types can be limited by projects, awards, dollar amounts, populations, careers, and so on, to tailor the authority to the specific individual. |
