Privileges

Privileges represent authorities - what a user is authorized to do, either with respect to TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM functionality or with respect to an application.

For example, being authorized to:

• approve expense claims
• start process instances or business services
• see the work lists of other users

Privileges can be further qualified - for example, to be allowed to approve expense claims up to a limit of $1000.

Using TIBCO Business Studio’s Organization Modeler, privileges can be defined and then assigned to groups, organization units and positions.

Privileges can be used to control what a user can do in the following ways:

• They can be assigned to system actions. These are tasks that a user may wish to perform that might need to be authorized in some way - for example, re-allocating or skipping work-items. Only users who hold that privilege are then allowed to execute that system action. See System Actions for more information.
• They can be assigned to user access sets, which are used to control access to different components of the Workspace user interface. See the Workspace Configuration and Customization guide for more information.
• They can be used as process participants to define who a user task should be distributed to. For example, a work item to issue a payment claim could be distributed only to users who have the privilege to sign off final payments.