Custom Security Profile

Security profiles are used in Oracle Applications HCM to restrict the information which a user can
see. Information can be restricted in many ways e.g., based on Organization, Position, Supervisor
etc. One of the disadvantages of this is that these criteria are too generic and may not always
meet our requirements. For example, if employee A, who works in Workshop (Welding) is
transferred temporarily to Head Office for few days. Now the HR user ofWorkshop (Welding) cant
see employee A because of security profile based on organization. But due to HR policies, the HR
user of Workshop (Welding) should be able to monitor the employee A.
Oracle has given a very flexible option of Custom Security while defining the security profiles in
which we can define the criteria based on our requirements. This method used SQL syntax and as
such is very powerful.
Now coming back to our requirements, we will define a custom security profile which will
add employee A to the security profile ofWorkshop (Welding) even though the employee is
in Head Office. To do this, the main idea is:
1. Navigate to
[HRMS Responsibility] > Security > Profile

2. Define the security profile for the above requirements.

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3. The SQL for the same is:

ASSIGNMENT.ORGANIZATION_ID
IN
(121)
OR
ASSIGNMENT.PERSON_ID in (8000)

In the above SQL, the organization_id for Workshop (Welding) is 121 and person_id for employee
A is 8000.
4. Once this security profile is built after we run the Security List Maintenance concurrent program,
the HR user of Workshop (Welding) will be able to see all the employees of Workshop
(Welding) PLUS employee A.
As this is a very powerful feature, which cant be covered in few pages, I have tried to give a very
brief idea of how this functionality works. Based on your requirements, you will have to develop
the correct SQL.