In Oracle Fusion, the terms "job role" and "duty role" refer to different concepts related to role-based security and access control. They are both used to manage and control access to various functions and data within the Oracle Fusion applications, but they serve slightly different purposes:
1. Job Role:
- A job role in Oracle Fusion represents a collection of duties and privileges that are typically associated with a specific job or role within an organization. Job roles are designed to be job-specific and are assigned to users based on their roles or responsibilities within the organization.
- Job roles are usually broader in scope and encompass a range of tasks and responsibilities associated with a particular job function. For example, a "Financial Analyst" job role might include duties related to financial reporting, budgeting, and financial analysis.
- Job roles are often associated with the permissions needed to perform a particular job function and can be assigned to individual users or roles.
2. Duty Role:
- A duty role in Oracle Fusion, on the other hand, represents a set of related tasks or duties that are more specific than job roles. Duty roles are used to define and group together specific actions or permissions within an application.
- Duty roles are typically more granular and can be assigned to job roles, allowing organizations to customize the access and permissions granted to users based on their job roles. A duty role might consist of tasks like "create a purchase order" or "approve a time-off request."
- Duty roles provide a finer level of control over what a user or job role can do within an application.
Key differences between job roles and duty roles in Oracle Fusion:
- Job roles are broader and can span multiple applications, while duty roles are more specific and are tied to a particular application.
- Job roles can inherit abstract roles and other job roles, while duty roles can only inherit other duty roles.
- Job roles do not grant explicit access to data, while duty roles grant access to the application functions that users require to perform the tasks associated with the duty.
To grant access to specific data for a job role, you can define a data role. Data roles can inherit abstract, job, and other data roles, and can be assigned to job roles or directly to users.
Example:
The Accounts Payable Manager job role inherits the Approving Payable Invoices Duty role. This means that users who are assigned the Accounts Payable Manager job role will have access to the application functions that are required to approve payable invoices.
The Accounts Payable Manager job role may also inherit a data role that grants access to specific data related to accounts payable, such as invoices, payments, and vendors.
In general, job roles are used to define the overall responsibilities of a position, while duty roles are used to group together specific tasks that must be performed within that role. Data roles are used to grant access to specific data.
By using a combination of job roles, duty roles, and data roles, you can create a granular security model that ensures that users only have access to the resources that they need to perform their jobs.
