WebSphere Commerce Enterprise

B2B direct view of the Organization Administration Console

If you are a Buyer Administrator, Buyer Approver, Seller Administrator, or Site Administrator working with a B2B direct store, you can perform specific tasks in the Organization Administration Console according to your role.

Feature Pack 8As a convenient alternative to using the Organization Administration Console, Buyer Administrators and Buyer Approvers can perform almost all of their administration and approval tasks in Aurora starter store pages. For details, see the notes and links in the Tasks column of the following table.

Role Menus Tasks
Buyer Administrator
  • Access Management
  • Approvals
  • Help
  • *Search for users
  • *Create new users and change user details
  • *Assign roles to users, such as the Buyer Approver role or Buyer Administrator role
  • *Search for organizations
  • *Create new organizations under the parent organization that the Seller Administrator creates
  • Create new organizational units under the parent organization that the Seller Administrator creates
  • *View the list of roles defined for organizations and organizational units
  • *Manage details, roles, and approval groups for an organization or organizational unit
  • *Include or exclude users from member groups
  • *Search for, view, approve, and reject order approval requests
  • *Search for, view, approve, and reject user registration approval requests
  • *Enable and disable user accounts
  • Subscribe an organization to a policy group
Feature Pack 8Note: Buyer Administrators can perform all tasks marked with an asterisk (*) directly in Aurora starter store pages. For more information, see Organization and buyer administration flows (B2B). Note the following additional differences between capabilities in the Aurora storefront compared to the Organization Administration Console:
  • In the Aurora storefront, order approvals are scoped to the store that the Buyer Administrator or Buyer Approver is signed into. In the Organization Administration Console, order approvals are site-wide.
  • In the Aurora storefront, Buyer Administrators can select only two member approval groups for an organization: order approvals and buyer (user registration) approvals. In the Organization Administration Console, all approval groups are available for selection.
Buyer Approver
  • Approvals
  • Help
  • Search for, view, approve, and reject order approval requests. For each organization, order approvals can be enabled or disabled. If order approvals are disabled, the Buyer Approver role is not required.
Feature Pack 8Note: Buyer Approvers can search for, view, approve, and reject order approval requests directly in Aurora starter store pages. For more information, see Order approval flows (B2B).
Seller Administrator
  • Access Management
  • Approvals
  • Help
  • All Buyer Administrator tasks
  • Create buyer organizations, organizational units, and attributes
Site Administrator
  • Access Management
  • Roles
  • Access Groups
  • Action Groups
  • Resource Groups
  • Policies
  • Approvals
  • Help
  • All of the Seller Administrator tasks
  • Register Customer Care for a site
  • Lock or unlock an organization
  • View roles for an organization or organizational unit
  • Add new roles to the site
  • View all access groups and their actions in the site
  • Change or delete access groups
  • View the resources access groups can use
  • View the access control policies access groups have access to
  • View actions of access groups
  • View, create, change, or delete resource groups
  • View, create, change, or delete access control policies
Note: The Site Administrator has access to all WebSphere Commerce Accelerator tasks.