How to create Role in Workflow

Question

Hi,
In Oracle documentation setting global workflow preferences, the Workflow Administrator should be set to A responsibility, not to A user.
My questions are:
1. How can I create A responsibility?
Is it using A PL/SQL API?Or using insert statement?
2. How can I set The responsibility for an administrator and for a non administrator?
I mean what previlege the we have to grant to an administrator responsibility and previlege for non administrator?
3. What are The differences between a Role and a responsibility?
4. In The workflow requisition demo, There are some Roles (Administrator, Manager, Worker, and Other) What are the differences between them?
5. Can I create A new Role? How?
How to set The link access previlege in Workflow Home Page?
In example I create a new Role : myAdminRole which have access to all links in workflow home page.
And I create my user Role which only has access to five stop links in the left side of Workflow Home Page.
6. How can I grant my new Role?
i.e: I create five new user: User1, User2, User3, User4, and User5.
How can I grant my admin Role to User1 and User2
How can I grant my user Role to User3, User4, User5.
Many Thanks,
Imelda

Answer 1

Hi,
1 - You need to define responsibilities through the System Administrator responsibility in eBusiness Suite. There probably is an API to do it, but the best way is through the GUI.
2 - You need to set the global administrator role to a responsibility you have chosen (e.g. Workflow Administrator). Any users who have been given this responsibility will be able to administer Workflows; those without it cannot.
3 - Responsibility is an eBusiness Suite term. Role is a Workflow term. As standard, eBusiness Suite responsibilities are mapped to Workflow roles, but you can create additional Workflow roles that do not map to eBS responsibilities.
4 - The different roles have differnet approval limits and hierarchies which the demo workflow references.
5 - You can create a new role either by creating a new eBS responsibility, or by calling the standard API WF_DIRECTORY.CreateAdHocRole
6 - You grant Workflow roles to users either by passing the users into the call to create the adhoc role, or by calling WF_DIRECTORY.AddUsersToAdHocRole
HTH,
Matt
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