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Security of access roles

Updated on June 30, 2021

An access role rule defines a name for a role, and represents a set of capabilities. As Access roles are a fundamental part of the security in Pega Platform, there are a number of rules that affect access roles.

Explanation of access roles

The access roles are described in text below, however, a summary image is shown below.

A flow diagram explaining the flow of access roles
A flow diagram explaining the flow of access roles

Each authorized user has an Operator ID.

The circled operator ID in the access group
In the application access section, the access roup has the operator ID

The Operator ID contains at least one Access Group. An Operator ID must have at least one access group, but can have multiple access groups.

The Access Group contains at least one Role. An Access Group must contain at least one role, but can have multiple roles.

In the Available roles section of the Definition Tab of the Access group
The Available roles section of the Definition Tab of the Access group

The Roles contain an Access Role name. This Access Role name makes a call to the Rule-Access-role-Obj, which are also called RARO. The RARO is contains Privileges.

The Access Role name is assigned based on the classes in the application. For each class, there can be an Access of role to Object rule, which assigns the privileges to the role for that class.

The circled Privlege or access role name
The circled Privlege or access role name

The privileges shown in the image below are explicit privileges and are assigned on the rules.

The privleges assigned to a certain access role
The privileges assigned to a certain access role

The privilege can also be seen on the Security tab of the activity.

The privledge on the Security Tab
The privilege on the Security Tab

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