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Using Security Policies
Security Policies within Office Timesheets are a collection/grouping of security rights, which are assigned to one or more Office Timesheets users. Security Policies determine what an Office Timesheets user can see and/or do within the Office Timesheets application.
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Note: Though Office Timesheets allows the creation of an unlimited number of Security Policies, at any given time, you can assign only one Security Policy to a user. |
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Since Security Policies determine what an Office Timesheets user can see and/or do within the Office Timesheets application, they provide a convenient way to assign rights to a team of employees on a “need-to-know” basis. For example, most employees do not need access to the Account Administration area of Office Timesheets. Similarly, an employee may need access to only certain areas of the System Configuration tab, such as Change Password and Time Entry Options.
However, a manager may need a different level of access as compared to an employee. Managers may need access to the report creation and process management areas of Office Timesheets, and so on.
Once you have determined what a user needs to see and/or do within Office Timesheets, you can create separate policies for different types of users, or different groups of users (such as all users working on a common project, or all users from a particular department, and so on).
You can then assign the policies to the users (or groups) using the User Account dialog box. (See Adding a New User Account for more details.)
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