Tracking Roles and Permissions

You can use both system notes and system notes v2 to run searches to find details about role and permission assignments in your NetSuite account.

System Notes

NetSuite offers a simple role search to find specific roles or view role details. For information about running simple searches, see Defining a Simple Search.
You can use the SuiteScript Search APIs to create and automate role searches. For more information see N/search Module.
You can create advanced employee and role record saved searches to find information about roles and permissions. For example, you can verify permissions for a role, or for an employee and their role. For information about auditing permissions, see Use Searches to Audit Roles and Use Searches to Audit Permissions By Employee.
A History subtab on the Access subtab of the Employee record shows changes to roles and global permissions assignments for the employee. The History subtab shows the date and time, user, and description for each change.
NetSuite offers a feature to compare the differences in permissions between roles. See Showing Role Permission Differences.
System notes for roles and permissions only track changes related to primary fields and doesn't capture change information made on available tabs.

You can access System Notes v2 for roles and permissions by clicking System Notes in the upper right of the Role page.
For information about System Notes v2, see System Notes v2 Overview.
For more information about System Notes v2 for roles and permissions, see Viewing System Notes v2.