Removing child roles from a parent role

You can remove a child role from a parent role.

Before you begin

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Determine how removing the role affects the role hierarchy.

About this task

To remove a child role from 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:
    1. Type information about the role in the Search information field.
    2. In the Search by field, specify whether to search against role names or descriptions, 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 names or descriptions, or against business units, and then click Search.
      The Roles table is displayed, listing the roles that match the search criteria and that can be children of another role.
      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.
    4. In the Roles table, select the check box next to the child role that you want to remove from the parent role, and then click Remove. Selecting the check box at the top of this column selects all child roles.
      A confirmation page is displayed.
  5. On the Confirm page, click Submit, or click Cancel.

Results

A Success page is displayed, indicating that you successfully removed the child roles from the parent role.

What to do next

You can continue working with roles, or click Close.