How user experience leads to contract management success

You've likely heard a version of "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off, the song that made differences in pronunciation (e.g. toe-may-toe vs. toe-mah-toe) famous. This song is an important lesson in how people approach language and make it their own. While this freedom of interpretation is great for day-to-day conversation and musicals, it can prove disastrous when it comes to tagging standards for contract and document management. What you might call an agreement, another person might call a contract. Yikes.
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Tom,
I can address parts of your question, please see below:
How can you tell jdeveloper to use other custom roles?JDeveloper picks up users from the Integration Server connection. So, if the server is configured with the LDAP configured server, you will see users and groups from that registry. JDeveloper (the human task editor dialog) does not go directly against the LDAP.
I wonder if it is possible to define such an user hierarchy in LDAPYes. That is the way it has been designed.
I now you can create a role-based hierarchy, but in cases this will
be to much and you need user based hierarchy.Making a user specific hierarchy has problems - what if a user leaves the company? The role based hierarchies solve this problem very well. May be I misunderstand your question.
I will have a colleague, who works on identity management, look at your question.
Regards,
Sidda.

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Please check this:
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Status: Reviewed
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Problem:     How To: Adding (new) serial numbers in Contract Management 13
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