What are the minimum authorization roles to assign?

Abstract

Only authorized users can access Business Management applications. You can simplify the administration of authorization role assignment by creating an administrator group for each Commerce Server system, and authorizing that group according to the corresponding administrator roles.

Only authorized users can access Business Management applications. You can simplify the administration of authorization role assignment by creating an administrator group for each Commerce Server system, and authorizing that group according to the corresponding administrator roles.

The following table lists the Web services and their corresponding administrator roles. These represent the minimum number of roles to assign and the groups to authorize. You assign business users to one or more of the administrative groups based on the Business Application they need to access.

Web service

Authorization

Windows group

Business Management application

Catalog Web service

Administrator

CatalogAdminGroup

  • Catalog Manager

  • Catalog and Inventory Schema Manager

Marketing Web service

MarketingAdministrator

MarketingAdminGroup

Marketing Manager

Orders Web service

OrdersAdministrator

OrdersAdminGroup

Customer and Orders Manager

Profiles Web service

ProfileAdministrator

ProfilesAdminGroup

Customer and Orders Manager

For more information about authorization roles, go to What are the required accounts and groups to create?