Create Security Groups for Approval of Journals

You can create new and maintain existing security groups for approval of journals. You can select a company or a group that a user has approval rights for and save it as a security group. This security group can then be connected to a user or a group.

To use this function, you select Use Approval of Journals in Maintain/Configuration window, General 3 tab.

For information about defining access levels, see Create Security Groups.

Procedure

  1. On the Maintain menu, click Rights/Security Groups. The Security Groups window opens.
  2. On the Approval of Journals tab, click the New button to create a new group.

    All fields are cleared for entry.

  3. In the Code text box, enter the code for the new group.
  4. In the Name - Group and Name - Local boxes, enter the name of the security group in the local and group languages.
  5. In the Consolidation Type text box, select the consolidation type from which you want to select companies to be included in the security group.
  6. Select the All Companies check box to display all companies, regardless of which group they belong to, on the same level in the Available list box. Adjustment companies are included in the list.
  7. Click the mover buttons to move the selected companies to the Selected list box.
  8. Click Save.