What is a Grant/Permission Assignment?
Permission Assignments reflect the access granted to users through roles. Oracle Applications additionally refers to permission assignments as Grants. Permission assignments may be granted in one of two ways. Permission assignments can provide access to a limited set of data or they can provide access to some set of an application’s functionality. Oracle Applications refers to permission assignments that deal with business objects as Data Security or Data Security Policies. We often refer to these types of permission assignments as “constrained”. You should use data security when you want to secure an aspect of a specific business object. For example, you want to limit access to a set of books whose author is Mark Twain. Oracle Applications refers to permission assignments that deal with some set of an application’s functionality as Function Security. We often refer to these types of permission assignments as “unconstrained”. You should use function security when you want to secure an
