Access Keys:
Skip to content (Access Key - 0)

Content with label c-roles-db in IS&T Contributions (See content from all spaces)
Related Labels: c-business_help_troubleshooting_and_overview_articles, category, data, redundant, export, delete, rolesweb, authorizations, cloverleaf, db, database, copy, escalation, macroles, bh, application, roles, authorization

Page: Copy authorizations from one user to another user (Roles application only).
Answer In order to copy a user's authorizations within a category, you must be authorized for each of the functions and qualifiers of all of the user's authorizations within that category. Otherwise, you will not be permitted to use the batchcopy facility for authorizations." To take all of the SAPrelated authorizations for user ...
Other labels: authorizations, roles
Page: Delete an authorization (Roles application only).
Q: Answer # From the "Authorization List" screen, click on an authorization to select it. # Click the Delete button (or select Delete from the Perform menu
Other labels: c-business_help_troubleshooting_and_overview_articles, escalation, bh, roles, authorizations, database, rolesweb, cloverleaf
Page: Display authorizations in Roles application
Q: Answer Display authorizations that you have created # From the "Authorization List" window, in the Selection field, choose "Authorizations I created" and click the Refresh button. Result: In the lower portion of the screen you should see your newly created ...
Other labels: roles, rolesweb, cloverleaf, authorizations, escalation, bh, database
Page: Do I really need a Roles Database username and password?
Q: Answer Before applying for a username/password, determine whether your needs will be met by the Web interface to the Roles Database. If so, you won't need a special username and password. The Roles Web interface http://rolesweb.mit.edu will let you do ...
Other labels: escalation, bh, roles, authorizations, database, rolesweb, cloverleaf
Page: Find out all the people who can grant authorizations within a category. (Roles application only)
Q: Answer Use the Roles application on your Macintosh or Windows machine. (There is no way to look up a complete list using the Web interface.) You'll need to select two sets of authorizations. The first set (1) will show you the people who ...
Other labels: roles, authorization, category
Page: How can I copy data from the Roles application display window to another application.
Answer From the File menu, choose Export. A dialog box appears requesting you to give a filename for the material you are downloading and choose a file type, including Excel. Make your choices and save the data. Open the new file in the chosen ...
Other labels: copy, data, roles, application, export
Page: I need the full-fledged Roles application. What do I do?
Q: Answer You need to do three things before you can use the Roles application. # Install the application on your Macintosh or Windows machine. (You can download the application from the Web. See the links on Roles home page ...
Other labels: roles, application
Page: I want to look up authorizations for a person, and I know the person's last name, but I don't know the person's Kerberos principal.
Q: Answer You can look up a person by last name via the Roles in the Web or the Roles application. (With the Roles application, you can also look up people by organizational unit, email address, or MIT ID number). Note ...
Other labels: roles, db, authorization
Page: List all of a person's authorizations in the Roles Database.
Q: Answer You can do this either with the Roles Web interface or with the Roles application on Macintosh or Windows. From the Web: # From the main Roles Web interface page at http://rolesweb.mit.edu/webroles.html http://rolesweb.mit.edu/webroles.html, click on Authorizations for a person ...
Other labels: authorization, roles, database
Page: MacRoles crashes.
Q: Answer This is caused by the fact that the number of pixels on the screen is too small to fit all the objects on the screen. If you have a Macintosh with a small screen, change the resolution so you can see the whole Roles Database application on the screen (640 ...
Other labels: macroles, roles

IS&T Contributions

Documentation and information provided by IS&T staff members

Get Help

Request help
from the Help Desk
Report a security incident
to the Security Team
Feedback
This product/service is:
Easy to use
Average
Difficult to use

This article is:
Helpful
Inaccurate
Obsolete
Adaptavist Theme Builder (4.2.3) Powered by Atlassian Confluence 3.5.13, the Enterprise Wiki