If you are running a business-to-business site, there can be one or more buyer
organizations belonging to your site. After you have established which businesses will participate
in a buying relationship with your site, you will have to create a buyer organization for each
business. You can have as many buyer organizations as you need.
Procedure
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Create a new organization and define approvable tasks if needed. Again, defining approvable
tasks is only required for business-to-business sites.
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Open the Organization
Administration Console using a Seller Administrator ID.
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Click . Click Find. A list of organizations and organizational units
for the site displays.
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From the list, click New to add a new organization or organizational
unit to the site.
Note: You cannot create an organization under an organization that is of type "authorization
domain".
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The New Organization dialog launches, displaying the Details page first. Provide appropriate
information for the fields and click OK to save.
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Once you have created an organization or organizational unit, you can select approval types and
roles for the organization or organizational unit, as follows:
- To select approval types for the organization or organizational unit:
- From the list of organizations for the site, select the check box next to the organization that
you want to work with and click Approvals. The Select Approve
Types dialog opens.
- From the Approval types list, select the types of approval required for
the organization, and click Add.
- Click OK to define the approval types for the organization.
- To select roles for the organization or organizational unit:
- From the list of organizations for the site, select the check box next to the organization that
you want to work with and click Roles. The Select
Roles dialog opens.
- Select roles for the organization as follows:
- To assign a single role, from the Available roles list, select the role
that you want to assign to the organization and click Add. The role moves
from the Available roles list to the Selected roles
list. Repeat this step for all the roles you want to assign to the organization.
- To assign all roles in the Available roles list, click Add
All. The roles move from the Available roles list to the
Selected roles list.
- If you make an error or want to remove a role, from the Selected roles
list, select the role that you want to remove and click Remove. The role
moves from the Selected roles list to the Available
roles list. Repeat this step for all the roles you want to remove from the
organization.
- To remove all roles in the Selected roles list, click Remove
All. The roles move from the Selected roles list to the
Available roles list.
- Click OK to define user roles for the organization.
Note: It is not recommended that you delete an organization. Deleting an organization will
invalidate all things owned by that organization. For more information about what will be deleted,
see the
MEMBER database table.
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Assign roles to the new buyer organization. Since you are now
creating a buyer organization, typical roles that you might assign include Buyer Administrator,
Buyer (buy-side), Buyer Approver, and so on.
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Create users and assign them roles. When assigning roles, you
will select them from the list of roles you assigned to the buyer organization in the previous
step.
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Repeat the entire procedure for each buyer organization you want to add to your site.