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About Managing Promotion Groups

This topic provides a general description of the run-time user tasks for creating and managing promotion groups. The categories of user tasks are as follows:

• Creation actions. Users perform these actions to create promotion groups and their associated objects. Creation actions primarily include creating promotion groups, adding memberships to promotion groups, associating assets with memberships, and updating membership attributes.
• Top-down (from highest to lowest level) actions. Users perform these actions on behalf of the promotion group owner or on behalf of promotion group subscribers with the Manage Members or View Members access rights.

  Top-down actions involve the overall management of a promotion group and its memberships.

  Top-down actions most often include adding and modifying promotion group memberships, and of disconnecting promotion groups and memberships.

  Modifying a promotion group membership mainly includes changing its attributes, billing account, or service account.

• Bottom-up (from lowest to highest level) actions. Users perform these actions on behalf of promotion group subscribers with the Manage Self, Add Self, Modify Self, or Disconnect Self access rights.

  Top-down actions involve subscribers managing their own member assets.

  Bottom-up actions most often include subscribing to or unsubscribing from an existing promotion group, that is, associating an asset with or disassociating an asset from a promotion group membership.

For more information about promotion group subscriber access rights, see Promotion Group Access Control Reference.

NOTE:  In the following topics, promotion group owners are sometimes referred to as owners, and promotion group subscribers are sometimes referred to as subscribers for the sake of brevity.