When you have defined a Security Feature, you must assign it to your users for it to have any effect.

A user can get security features in three different ways:

  • Assigned directly to the user
  • Assigned to a user group
  • Assigned to a permission set
The user EH has the ADDRESS security features assigned.

You can use the Show effective security function to show what specific security setting a user will get from the current setup:

User Filters

User filters is a way to apply a different filter on the same field depending on the user:

User EH is assigned to Customer Posting Group DOMESTIC

The user filters are available as Filter Codes that can be used in filters:

Here UF_31 is used on a Security Feature:

Filter Codes can be Builtin or Event Supplied. If you want to create your own filter code, you can create that as an extension and subscribe to a specific event from ACS.