Responsibility Selection
The application is launched from inside the Oracle E-Business Suite via a special Wands responsibility that is created during the installation. However, when you launch the Wands the first time, you will be prompted to select the responsibilities that you wish to work with. The list presented will be the same responsibilities that you are able to access in Oracle. Please note that your System Administrator can restrict this list by enabling the Show Wands enabled Responsibilities Only option on the System Administrator Configuration Options. The selection will be remembered and the next time you launch the Wands you will be connected to these responsibilities automatically. To select different responsibilities you can click on the “Change Responsibility” button.
The responsibilities dialog provides a number of ways to find the items you wish to use:
- Type a portion of the responsibility name into the filter box at the top and the displayed items will be filtered to meet your search criteria.
- Apply a prebuilt filter using the filter button e.g. show only General Ledger responsibilities.
- Sort the list by clicking on the “Name” heading.
- Sort the list to show the selected items on top.
- Clear the selection using the “Clear” button.
When you select an item, all other responsibilities that are linked to the same Ledger will become disabled. This is because you can only access a specific Ledger via one responsibility in a GL Wand session as the security settings are linked to the responsibility.
If you are licensed to use the GL Wand multiple Ledgers (MSOB) feature you can select multiple responsibilities. Click an item to select it and click it again to unselect it. If you are licensed to use the MSOB feature you also have the option of logging on to all the available Ledgers. Your System Administrator must enable this option for your user under the System Administrator User Permissions. If this option is enabled for your user you will have an extra item in the list of available responsibilities. This “All Ledgers” option allows you to log on to all the Ledgers configured in the Oracle instance without needing to select multiple responsibilities.
Please note that when logging on with the “All Ledgers” option, no security rules are enforced. For this reason you must enable this option for those GL Wand users that are authorized to report across all the configured Ledgers. By default this options is disabled for all users.