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A responsibility is a level of authority in Oracle Applications that lets users access only those Oracle Applications functions and data appropriate to their role in an organization. Each responsibility allows access to a specific application or applications, a set of books, a restricted list of windows, a restricted list of functions, and reports in a specific application.

Notes:

   This step is generally performed by a system administrator.

   The responsibilities you define in this step should be used for inquiry and reporting purposes only. Day-to-day activities, such as creating purchase orders or invoices, should be performed using your standard subledger responsibilities.

   This step applies only to your Oracle Applications subledgers and not to General Ledger. For example, you may need to define a Payables reporting responsibility and a Purchasing reporting responsibility.

   Oracle provides predefined MRC responsibilities as examples you can use to set up your organization's reporting responsibilities.

Responsibilities Window

See:	Responsibilities Window

When you define your reporting responsibilities, follow the guidelines below for completing the fields on the Responsibilities window:

Data Group Name: Select the name of the data group you defined earlier when you installed MRC.

Menu: Enter the name of the MRC menu for the product for which you are defining the reporting responsibility. To use the related predefined MRC menu, select the MRC menu for your product from the list of responsibilities. Pre-defined MRC menus are in the format <product code>_MRC_NAVIGATOR_GUI.

Most of the predefined product-specific MRC menus allow users to access only the product's inquiry functions and windows. For some products, other functions and windows are also accessible. For example, Assets users can run depreciation in both the primary and reporting sets of books. For more information on product-specific differences in the predefined menus, see: Menus.

Caution: We strongly recommend that you use the predefined product-specific MRC menus provided by Oracle, rather than creating a custom menu. If you choose to create a custom menu, we suggest that you start by making a copy of the related predefined menu, then make any custom changes to the copy.

Your custom menu should not allow users to access any windows or functions that are not already included in the predefined MRC menu. Any other windows or functions you add to your custom menu will not function properly when accessed by users.

Request Group Name: Enter the name of the MRC request group for which you are defining the reporting responsibility. To use the related predefined MRC request group, select the request group from the list of values. Pre-defined MRC request groups are in the format MRC Programs <product code>.

The predefined MRC request groups allow users to access only those reports and programs that are appropriate to run when using an MRC reporting responsibility.

To use a custom request group, enter the name you gave to that request group when you defined it.

Caution: We strongly recommend that you use the predefined MRC request groups provided by Oracle, rather than creating a custom request group. If you choose to create a custom request group, we suggest that you start by making a copy of the related predefined request group, then make any custom changes to the copy.

Your custom request group should not allow users to access any programs that are not already included in the predefined MRC request group. Any other programs you add to your custom request group will not function correctly when accessed by users. You can include any report in your custom request group, however, those reports which are not already included in the predefined request group will not display reporting currency amounts.