Adding child roles to a parent role

You can add a role (child role) to the membership of an organizational role (parent role). This task defines the roles in a role hierarchy. Circular parent-child relationships are not permitted.

Before you begin

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About this task

When you add child roles to a parent role, ensure that there is not a separation of duty policy violation.

To add a child role to a parent role, complete these steps:

Procedure

  1. From the navigation tree, click Manage Roles. The Manage Roles page is displayed.
  2. On the Manage Roles page, complete these steps:
    • Click Refresh icon to load all roles.
    • Type name or description of the role in the Search box.
    • Click Filters icon, specify whether the search is done based on Service name, Role type or Membership type, and then click Apply filters. A list of roles that match the search criteria is displayed. If the list contains multiple pages, you can either click the arrow to go the next page, or, type the number of the page that you want to view and click Go.
    • In the Roles list, click the kebab menu (three vertical dots) next to the role that you want to modify, and then click Edit role to display the Role information page. Or, you can click on selected role and click on Edit icon.
  3. The Change Role wizard is displayed. Click on the Role Composition section in which Role as well as Group Accesses table will be shown.
  4. On the Child role table use the filter for Service Name or Role Type. On the child role table, you can type name of role in search box as well.
  5. On the child access table, you can use the filter for Access Type. On the child access table, you can type name of access in search box as well.
  6. In the Roles/ Accesses table, select the check box next to one or more roles/ accesses that you want to add to the membership of the role and select the checkbox.
  7. Selecting the check box at the top of this column selects all roles. You cannot select a role that is already a child role.
  8. Once the selection is completed, click Next and then Save.

Results

The roles/accesses are added as children of the role, and the Manage Roles page is displayed.

What to do next

You can continue working with roles.