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Setting Up Access Groups and Categories


Siebel applications include two different types of data:

Channel managers use access groups and categories to assign master data to partners:

Before channel managers assign any master data to partner companies, the channel operations manager must analyze the way you need to share master data with your partners and create the appropriate categories and access groups.

For example, you have partners who sell different product lines that your company manufactures, such as servers and desktop computers. Some partners do not sell all of the products within a given product line; some may sell only the most powerful servers or the low-priced desktops. In this case, you can create categories for the product lines you sell, and also create categories for each individual product that you sell, for each specific model of server and desktop computer. Then you would associate sales literature, training courses, and other information about an entire product line with the appropriate category, and information about an individual product with the appropriate category.

Finally, you would create access groups for partners that sell each product line, such as Server Resellers and Desktop Resellers. Each of these access groups could have child access groups for each product within the product line. The access groups could then be associated with the appropriate catalogs and categories; for example, the server access group would be associated with the server catalog. The structure would be in place so that when partners are added to the access groups they will get information about the product lines and the specific products they sell.

After the channel operations manager has done this initial work of setting up categories and access groups, the channel managers can assign data to partner companies. If you create new sales literature or a new training course, you associate it with the appropriate category to make it visible to the partners who need it. If you enroll a new partner, you associate it with the appropriate access groups to give it visibility to the master data it needs.

For more information about working with categories and access groups, see Security Guide for Siebel eBusiness Applications and Siebel eSales Administration Guide.


 Siebel Partner Relationship Management Administration Guide 
 Published: 18 April 2003