Introduction

Vendor Management comes with a number of groups provided by default. By adding users to these groups, you can grant access to separate parts of the application.

There are three categories that the default groups belong to:

• Business Groups
  • These groups represent the different business roles that will interact with the application.
  • Examples include Contracting Officer and Contract Specialist.
• Security Groups
  • These groups are set as the security for certain Appian objects. Different business groups are members of security groups to grant access to application functionality to entire roles.
  • Examples include AS VM Vendor Management Site Access and AS VM Create Vendor User PM Access.
• Wrapper Groups
  • These groups are used to combine a number of groups associated with the same category. For instance, a list of business groups may be added to a certain wrapper group. This allows for querying for all groups of a certain category in different parts of the application.
  • Examples include AS VM Business Roles and AS VM Departments.

This page lists the default groups provided with VM, what business groups belong to which wrapper and security groups, and what actions members of the security groups can perform.

Group visibility

In order for the correct groups to show up in application pickers, each type of group has the following visibility settings:

Group Type	Visibility	Reason
Business group	Public	End users should be able to select business groups in application pickers.
Security group	Private	End users should never see security groups in application pickers.
Wrapper group	Private	End users should never see wrapper groups in application pickers.

Wrapper group membership

This table lists all of the default business groups and the wrapper group to which they belong.

These business groups are members of the AS VM All Business Users group type.

Wrapper Group	Business Group
AS VM Internal Users (AS VM Contracting Personnel)	Contracting Officer
	Contract Specialist
	Contracting Manager
AS VM External Users	Vendors

Actions users can perform based on their group membership

This table lists all of the actions that are available in VM and the security groups that control access to each action. It also lists the business groups that are members of each security group.

For security groups where no business group is listed, Appian recommends that you grant membership to individual users.

These security groups are members of the AS VM Security Groups group.

Actions with Security Group	Security Group
Manage Appian design objects for VM solution.	AS GAM Appian Administrators
Receive automatic process model alerts.	AS VM Designer Alerts Group
View the VM site.	AS VM Vendor Management Site Access
View an opportunity.	AS Vendor Management Settings Site Access
View a proposal.	AS Vendor Management Site Access
View a document.	AS VM Evaluation Record Access
View a vendor.	AS VM Vendor Record Access
Deactivate a vendor user.	AS VM Deactivate Vendor User PM Access
Create a user for an existing vendor. Calls the ‘Create Vendor User’ process model.	AS VM Create User for Vendor PM Access
Create notifications for an opportunity.	AS VM Create Notification PM Access
Register as a vendor.	AS VM Register Vendor PM Access
Create a user during vendor registration.	AS VM Create Vendor User PM Access
Withdraw proposal.	AS VM Withdraw Proposal PM Access
Bulk upload proposal documents.	AS VM Vendor Bulk Upload PM Access
Submit a proposal.	AS VM Submit Proposal PM Access
Mark a proposal as interested.	AS VM Mark as Interested PM Access
Will add ‘AS GAM Appian Administrators’ as admin, ‘AS VM Internal Users’ as editors, and if opportunity is private, will set associated vendors as viewers.	AS VM Setup Opportunity Folder PM Access
Close an opportunity.	AS VM Close Opportunity PM Access
Create or update an opportunity.	AS VM Create or Update Opportunity PM Access