Welcome to Fusion: Your First Look at Users, Roles, and the Security Console

So you have your login for a new Oracle Fusion environment. You sign in and see a clean, modern screen with colorful icons. It all looks simple enough, but where do you actually start your work as a functional consultant?

Before you can configure anything, you first need to understand the foundation of all access in the system. This guide will walk you through these first crucial concepts: Users, Roles, and the one place where you will manage it all.

The Building Blocks: Users and Roles

Everything you can do in Fusion is controlled by two core ideas.

First, a User. A User is your digital identity, the account you log in with. Every person who accesses the system has a user account, and it is the anchor for everything they can see and do.

Second, a Role. A Role is not a person; it is a set of permissions. Think of it like a security badge. The badge for an employee is different from the badge for a manager. The most important thing to remember is that Users are assigned Roles. We do not give a person hundreds of individual permissions; we just give them a few specific Roles that determine their access.

Your First Destination: Finding the Security Console

The main screen of icons you see when you log in is called the Springboard. It is great for common tasks, but for deep configuration, your main tool is the Navigator.

To open it, click the three-line icon in the top-left corner of the screen. This menu lists all the work areas you have access to.

To get to the heart of security, this is your path: From the Navigator menu, scroll down and expand the Tools section. Then, click on Security Console.

A Quick Tour of the Security Console

The Security Console is your control center for permissions. You do not come here to hire someone, but you do come here to control who is allowed to hire someone.

When you open it, you will see several tabs. As a beginner, you only need to focus on two:

• The Users tab, where you can find any user and see the roles they have.
• The Roles tab, where you can look up any role to see what permissions it contains.

What Comes Next?

Now you understand the basics: Users are the people, and Roles are the permissions you give them. You also know the Security Console is where you manage this relationship.

This leads to the next obvious question: How do these user accounts get created and assigned their roles in the first place? In the next article, we will cover exactly that—exploring both the automatic way user accounts are created for new hires, and the manual way you, the implementation team, will get started.