Authorization Areas divide an organization into areas in order to have employees’ information secured from unauthorized user access.

Authorization areas are an abstraction which usually follows department lines, but may span multiple departments or even split departments. They are used for controlling access to employee records by these areas.

The areas are defined by entity. To set up authorized access by a user, an authorization area is placed on the security rights record for that user (found on the Maintain Security Rights (IMSV) form).

As an alternate method to defining individual records for each authorization area, Wiki allows you to assign the authorization areas using a pattern match.

For example, if you have several Authorization Areas that begin with ‘Sheriff’ (Sheriff Jail, Sheriff Clerical, Sheriff Accounting), you may want to assign all those areas to a specific person. You may give that person authorization by indicating AUTH AREA MATCH "SHERRIF%".