Introduction

Government Source Selection 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, Legal 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 GSS Source Selection Site Access and AS GSS Upload Documents PM Access.
• Wrapper Groups
  • These groups are used to group together a number of groups of 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 GSS Business Roles and AS GSS Departments.

This page lists the default groups provided with GSS, 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 GSS All Business Users group type.

Wrapper Group	Business Group
AS GSS Departments	IT
	Legal
	Policy
AS GSS Business Roles	Contracting Officer
	Contract Specialist
	Contracting Manager
	Document Reviewer
AS GSS Viewers	Program Managers
	AS GSS Departments

Actions users can perform based on their group membership

This table lists all of the actions that are available in GSS 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 GSS Security Groups group.

Actions with Security Group	Security Group	Business Groups with Access
Receive automatic process model alerts.	AS GSS Designer Alerts Group	NA
Manage Appian design objects for source selection solution.	AS GAM Appian Administrators
Manage Appian design objects for task management.	AS GSS TMG Appian Administrators
View and create approach on the GSS Settings site.	AS GSS Source Selection Settings Site Access
View the Source Selection site.	AS GSS Source Selection Site Access	All Business Users
View an Evaluation.	AS GSS Evaluation Record Access
View a Vendor.	AS GSS Vendor Record Access
Upload a document to a evaluation.	AS GSS Upload Document PM Access
Move a document.	AS GSS Move Document PM Access
View an evaluation document.	AS GSS Evaluation Document Viewers
Manually sync vendor information with SAM.GOV.	AS GSS Sync Vendor From SAM GOV PM Access
Create a document from a template.	AS GSS Create Word Doc from Template PM Access
Create or update a vendor.	AS GSS Add or Update Vendor PM Access	Contracting Contracting Manager
Create or update an evaluation.	AS GSS Create or Update Evaluation PM Access	Contracting Officer Contract Specialist Contracting Manager
Submit a document for review.	AS GSS Submit Document for Review PM Access