A client doesn't want some users to see the OnePlace Pane and just navigate based on their landing page. There is an application security role for it and I updated that group to a specific group so its not set to everyone. When I test the user role that doesn't have the OnePlace Pane in their security roles, its not working and the OnePlace Pane is still showing up?
I can confirm, based upon my testing and the testing of one other colleague, this Application User Interface Role in fact does not control anything. I will record this as a bug since we believe this role was added but not coded so currently it has no bearing on the app itself. Therefore, I do not believe you can hide the OnePlace Pane.
As a side note -- if you have a person that should only see the System tab, you can grant them the following security and when they log in, they will not be in a specific app nor have a OnePlace pane:
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