Managing child roles

You can view, add, or remove child roles, which are roles that are members of another role. This relationship is a parent-child relationship between an organizational role (a parent role) and its child roles. A child role itself is an organizational role.

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 manage child roles, 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:
    1. Type information about the role in the Search information field.
    2. In the Search by field, specify whether to search against role name or description, or against business units, and then click Search.
      A list of roles that match the search criteria is displayed.
      If the table contains multiple pages, you can:
      • Click the arrow to go to the next page.
      • Type the number of the page that you want to view and click Go.
  3. In the Roles table, click the icon (Context menu icon) next to the role, and then click Manage Child Roles.
    The Manage User Members and Child Roles page is displayed.
  4. On the Manage User Members and Child Roles page, complete these steps:
    1. Select Child role.
    2. Type information about the role in the Search information field.
    3. In the Search by field, specify whether to search against role name or description, or against business units, and then click Search.

Results

The Child Roles table is displayed, listing the child roles that match the search criteria.

If the table contains multiple pages, you can:
  • Click the arrow to go to the next page.
  • Type the number of the page that you want to view and click Go.

What to do next

You can add more child roles to the parent role, or you can remove child roles from the role.

Click Close to close the page.