What is the PeopleSoft "Portal Administrator" Role


The Portal Administrator role is a "special" role that gives Portal access to all folders and CREFs. Although the navigation access is given this role DOES NOT give security access to all menus and components. This is why the user can see all folders and CREFs, but when they click on a page they do not have correct security for they will get a "You are not Authorized..." error.

This special role is only needed for somebody doing portal administration where they need to see all folders and CREFs in the Structure and Content or when running PORTAL_CSS or the Portal Upgrade Application Engine program. If this role is cloned the new role will not get the same access as the Portal Administrator role because this role is hardcoded to grant this access.