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Configure the Purchasing Roles

Key Lesson: In this step, you learn how to create the Requester, Approver, and Procurement roles used to assign Purchase Request Process tasks.

Create the three roles used by the Purchase Request Process to assign work to the appropriate users.

  1. Go to Design → Object Types → Role.

  2. Create the following roles:

Role IDConfiguration
RequesterLeave all properties at their default values
ApproverLeave all properties at their default values
ProcurementLeave all properties at their default values

For each role:

  1. Click +.
  2. Enter the Role ID shown in the table and click OK.
  3. When the role editor opens, leave the properties at their default values and close the editor.
  4. Repeat the steps for the remaining roles.

Review how roles are defined and used to group application responsibilities.

Understand how roles and swimlanes determine who can work on Process tasks.

Follow the general procedure for creating and configuring roles.