HOPEX Administration : Administrator Guide : Managing Users : Introduction to Profile Management : Description of a profile
   
Description of a profile
The description of a profile includes:
• the definition of the profile
• the definition of the profile assignment to a person
*See "Profile Properties".
Definition of the profile
A profile defines the function of a person or person group in the enterprise
Example: Application Portfolio Manager, Enterprise Architect).
The profile defines:
• the products accessible
*See "Products accessible on the license (Command Line)".
*If a user already has restricted access rights to products (see "Viewing Login Characteristics"), the products accessible to this user are at the intersection of values of the Command Line attribute of the user login and profile.
• the applications and the desktops which the user is going to access.
*See "Connection schema: Person - Profile - Application".
*See "Connection schema: Person - Profile - Application - Desktops".
*See "Defining applications accessible to profile users" and "Defining application desktops accessible to profile users".
• the user's access rights to UIs (permissions)
*See "Managing UI Access", page 235.
Profile assignment
You must assign each person at least one profile so that this person can connect to HOPEX.
*By default, no profiles is assigned to a person.
Assigning a profile to a person defines:
*See "Assigning a Profile to a Person".
• the repository concerned by the assignment
• the person's access rights to repositories with this profile assignment
• (optional, with read-only access to the repository) connection repository snapshot
• (optional) the validity period of the assignment