HOPEX Administration (Web) > Managing Users > Managing Business Roles > Assigning a Business Role to a Person
Assigning a Business Role to a Person
A business role can be assigned to a person:
• for a specific object
E.g.: Anne Martin is Process Manager for the Purchasing business process.
• to a given geographical location
E.g.: David Oldfield is Risk Manager at London Branch.
• to a given geographical location for a specific object
E.g.: Tom Woods is Process Manager for the Purchasing business process at Boston branch.
Assigning an object to a person 
*To assign one or more objects to one or more persons at a time, see Mass assignment of objects to persons
*To assign an object to a person from the user management page, see Mass assignment of objects to persons.
To assign an object to a person:
1. Access the properties of the person.
2. In Assignments, click Object Assignments.
3. Click New .
4. In the Select a Business Role field, click the drop-down menu and select the business role concerned.
5. (If necessary) In the Assigned Object field, click the arrow and select Search.
*This field appears only if the selected business role has at least one assigned object, see Defining a Business Role.
In the search tool:
• (if necessary) in the first field, select the object type to find.
• (optional) in the Find object field, enter the characters to search for.
• Click Find .
• Select the object and click OK.
6. (if necessary) In the Assignment Location field, click the arrow and select Connect.
*This field appears only if the selected business role has at least one Localizing MetaClass, see Defining a Business Role.
In the search tool,
• (if necessary) in the first field, select the object type to find.
• (Optional) in the second field, enter the characters to search for.
• Click Find .
• Select the object and click Connect.
7. Click OK.
Mass assignment of objects to persons 
To perform a mass assignment of objects to persons:
1. Access the User Management pages.
2. Select a Persons sub-folder.
The list of persons appears.
3. Select the persons concerned.
4. Click Assign Objects.
5. In the list of business roles, select the business role in question.
*Only the business roles that can be assigned to more than one person at the same time (cardinality >1) are displayed.
6. In the Assigned Object frame, click Link .
7. (Optional) Using the search tool:
• (If necessary) in the first field, select the object type to find.
• (Optional) in the second field, enter the characters to search for.
• Click Find .
8. Select the object and click Connect.
*You can select more than one.
9. Click Connect.