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How To Create An Alternative Role w/Adminstrator Level Permissions?
Per NetSuite: [LEFT]"The lack of visibility of the Administrator and the Full Access roles is an important consideration for audits of user access to NetSuite. An alternative role with administrator level permission can be created to minimize the number of administrators who do not show on access reports, while still providing elevated rights."[/LEFT]
How best to effectively copy the Administrator role and give it a custom name? The ultimate need is both audit visibility and also to set some permissions like Enable Features and Accounting Preferences to View-only access.
FYI, in 16.2 NetSuite made 5 normally Administrator-only permissions available for assignment to other roles, i.e.
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