OKI Common Services Authorization API.
The authorization API allows an application to establish and query Authorizations in the authorizations database. An Authorization has three components. The components are: the Person who is authorized, the Function that the Person is authorized to do, and the Qualifier representing the context in which the Person can perform the Function.
Qualifiers can be linked to other Qualifiers as either parents or children. This property of Qualifiers is often used to represent the hierarchy of an organization. Qualifiers have a QualifierType property that allows users of the API to retrieve Authorizations or People who are authorized based on QualifierType
Functions have a FunctionCategory property that allows users of the API to retrieve Authorizations or People who are authorized based on FunctionCategory.