Adding Users to ERP Connector Groups and Mapping Roles
As an ERP Connector administrator, you may need to create ERP Connector users and then add them to certain groups and map these groups to defined roles so that they can receive appropriate tasks and e-mail notifications.
During the installation process, ERP Connector creates two groups with specific access controls. It also creates a team template called ESI Team which has two roles associated with the ERP Connector workflow. Initially, these two roles are assigned to the Windchill PDMLink Administrators group.
However, you can assign users to the different groups, or map either these groups or individual users to the roles to suit your environment and business requirements.
It is recommended that you get very familiar with teams, groups, roles, and participants and how they work, before modifying these settings.
Refer to Adding Users to ERP Connector Groups for more information.
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The two ESI team template roles can also be defined by a team instance of the business object that is being published. If users are already assigned to one or more of these roles, those users retain their privileges and any users that you define through the ESI team template are overridden. For example, if User A has been assigned to the group ESI Administrators by the team instance of a business object and if User B is assigned the same role in the ESI Team template, only User A retains the privileges assigned to that role, overriding those assigned to User B.
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The following table lists the ERP Connector groups, the ESI team template roles that they map into and the minimum permissions that are required for each of these roles:
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Group
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ESI Team Template Role
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Minimum Permissions Required
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ESI Administrators
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Change Admin III
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• Able to view all ERP Connector transactions through the Enterprise Systems Transaction Administration UI, accessed through the > page in Windchill PDMLink.
• Able to view and assign ERP Connector Targets via the Object Properties page or the Details page in Windchill PDMLink.
• Able to view task assignments via e-mail notification and when logging into Windchill PDMLink.
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To create ERP Connector targets or view all ERP Connector transactions via the Site tab, the ESI Administrators group also has to be a member of the Site Administrator’s group.
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ESI Authors
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Engineers
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Able to view task assignments via e-mail notification and when logging into Windchill PDMLink.
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