Permission Lists A set of access rights to application objects, including processes and reports, weblib functions, and other elements. In this class, we focus on the components and pages that permission lists grant access to.
Roles A definition of a functional role or job definition. Roles link users to appropriate permission lists. Some roles in our PSU Training application are student, instructor, class administrator, and so on.
User IDs A unique identifier for each person who signs in to the system. User IDs, associated with user profiles, do not carry security access rights—they are granted access by virtue of the roles (and therefore permission lists) that they are associated with.
The access rights that users have when signing in depend on the roles that their user IDs are associated with and the permission lists associated with those roles. Here is a partial map of the security plan for the PSU Training application.