SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DETERMINING AN AMOUNT OF ACCESS TO DATA, BASED ON A ROLE

• US 20110213789A1
• Filed: 02/28/2011
• Published: 09/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Inventors: Grignon, Yanik, Vieira, Alfred, Wu, Yongsheng, Bhatt, Chaitanya, Doshi, Kedar
• Application Number:
  US13/037,249
• Publication Number:
  US 20110213789A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/754
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database

Abstract

In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for determining an amount of access to data, based on a role. These mechanisms and methods for determining an amount of access to data, based on a role can enable enhanced data security, more relevant data display, increased time savings, etc.

Claims

1. A computer program product, comprising a non-transitory computer usable medium having a computer readable program code embodied therein, the computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method for determining an amount of access to data, based on a role, the method comprising:

identifying a role of a user of a multi-tenant on-demand database system;

determining which data of the multi-tenant on-demand database system can be accessed by the user, based on the role; and

filtering a presentation of the data of the multi-tenant on-demand database system to the user, based on the data that can be accessed by the user.

2. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the role of the user includes a position held by the user.

3. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the role of the user is part of a role hierarchy structure.

4. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the computer program product is operable such that the role of the user is determined when the user logs into the multi-tenant on-demand database system.

5. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the data includes a plurality of records within a knowledge base of the multi-tenant on-demand database system.

6. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the data of the multi-tenant on-demand database system is hierarchically arranged within one or more groups.

7. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein it is determined which data can be accessed by the user by identifying one or more associations between the role and one or more portions of the data.

8. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the computer program product is operable such that the role of the user is associated with a tag.

9. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein it is determined that the user can access a data element if the data element includes the tag associated with the role of the user.

10. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the computer program product is operable such that an administrator configures associations between the role of the user and one or more categories within one or more groups of the data.

11. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the computer program product is operable such that the associations between the role of the user and the one or more categories within the one or more groups are stored in a mapping table.

12. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the computer program product is operable such that the user access to one portion of the data is affected by the user access to another portion of the data.

13. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein the data that can be accessed by the user is determined by determining an exclusive combination of category groups of the data that include a tag associated with the user.

14. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the computer program product is operable such that a first amount of data accessible by a first user cannot be greater than a second amount of data accessible by a second user with a role higher than the role of the first user within a role hierarchy.

15. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the computer program product is operable such that associations between a role of a parent user and one or more categories within one or more groups of the data are inherited by subordinate roles within a role hierarchy.

16. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein presenting the data to the user includes displaying the data to the user.

17. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein presenting the data to the user includes allowing the user to perform one or more actions on the data.

18. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the presentation of the data of the multi-tenant on-demand database system is filtered by only presenting to the user the data that can be accessed by the user.

19. A method, comprising:

identifying a role of a user of a multi-tenant on-demand database system;

determining which data of the multi-tenant on-demand database system can be accessed by the user, based on the role, utilizing a processor; and

filtering a presentation of the data of the multi-tenant on-demand database system to the user, based on the data that can be accessed by the user.

20. An apparatus, comprising:

a processor for;

identifying a role of a user of a multi-tenant on-demand database system;

determining which data of the multi-tenant on-demand database system can be accessed by he user, based on the role; and

filtering a presentation of the data of the multi-tenant on-demand database system to the user, based on the data that can be accessed by the user.

21. A method for transmitting code for use in a u -tenant database system on a transmission medium, the method comprising:

transmitting code for identifying a role of a user of a multi-tenant on-demand database system;

transmitting code for determining which data of the multi-tenant on-demand database system can be accessed by the user, based on the role, utilizing a processor; and

transmitting code for filtering a presentation of the data of the multi-tenant on-demand database system to the user, based on the data that can be accessed by the user.