Note: You must have PPM Pro administrative privileges to create permission profiles.
Refer to About Staffing Permissions for a list of permissions and their descriptions.
While you can create global resource staffing permissions, the most useful profiles allow you to create more limited staffing scope. Those profiles - unit manager and special access - are covered first. The global profiles follow.
You can create a Unit Managers profile rule that has staffing permissions on members of their units (Propose, Staff Directly, Process Requests when using Managed Staffing). If you want Unit Managers to only be able to propose resources - you'll have to edit that profile and modify the permissions. You can remove permissions from the rule, or inactivate the default rule and add your own.
You create a special access profile to give users staffing permissions on resources in a specific unit. You can assign multiple users to the special access list for a unit - they can have the same staffing permissions if you assign them the same profile, or they can have different staffing positions if you create and assign multiple profiles. For example, say you want to give project manager Stan Snively permission to propose resources from Unit_DBA, but want to give resource manager Sally Smith permission to process requests for resources from Unit_DBA. You would create two profiles: 'Propose Staffing' and 'Process Requests'. When you add each member to the Special Access list for Unit_DBA, you would associate the respective profile.
Stan and Sally each have different staffing permissions on the member of Unit_DBA. Note that you can also add groups and units to special access lists. In other words, you can give a group of users staffing permissions on a specific unit, or even give another unit staffing permissions on a specific unit.
You create a Global profile when you want to grant a specific user/group/unit staffing permissions to all resources. For example, imagine you have a Chief Staffing Officer named Sally Smith, and you want to give her permission to fulfill staffing requests with any resource.
You can create a similar profile, or even use the same profile, and add a group or a unit. This will give the group, unit, and original user access to all resources for staffing purposes.