After you sign-in, the apps that are displayed are based on the access and permissions enabled for your role.
The application allows you to configure the authorization using the Authorization Model data model. As an Administrator / Merchant, you have unrestricted access to all the apps and its functionalities. As a Supplier, you can access only limited functionalities in the application.
The following table list the apps and other functionalities that can be accessed by different roles in the application:
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| User Dashboard App | My To Do's | |
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Displays only authorized workflow steps. | |||
| Saved Searches | |
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| Batch Jobs | |
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View jobs only submitted by you. Cannot view jobs submitted by others. | ||||
| Thing Domain Search App | Search Using Keywords | |
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| Search Using Entity Type | |
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| Search Using Refine More | |
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| Workflow Actions | |
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| Quick Manage | |
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| Saved Searches | |
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| Quick Actions | |
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Initiate Workflow as a restricted option for the supplier roles. | View, Customize, and Manage Search Results | |
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| Digital Asset Library App | All Functionalities | |
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Cannot perform all functionalities as applicable for Admin. | |||
| Entity Manage App | Manage Attributes | |
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Can edit and view only authorized attributes. | |||
| Manage Relationships | |
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Can edit and view only authorized attributes. | ||||
| Manage Entity Graph | |
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| Manage Workflow Activity | |
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Complete and submit only authorized workflow steps. | ||||
| Manage Contexts | |
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Not Applicable. | ||||
| Manage Locales | |
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| Perform Basic Actions | |
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Cannot Publish. Actions such as Refresh, Delete, Download / Upload are allowed. | ||||
| Reference Data Library App | All Functionalities | |
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| Visual Analytics App | All Functionalities | |
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Only View access for OOTB Reports | |||
| Thing Domain Data Model App | All Functionalities | |
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| Context Models App | All Functionalities | |
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| Digital Asset Domain Data Model App | All Functionalities | |
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| Reference Data Domain Model App | All Functionalities | |
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| Taxonomy & Classifications App | All Functionalities | |
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| Workflows & Processes App | All Functionalities | |
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| Role & User Authorization App | All Functionalities | |
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| System Dashboard App | All Functionalities | |
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Based on the role, the apps in the navigation menu are displayed.

The following table lists the applications and its description.
| Pointers | Application | Description |
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| 1 | Quick Actions | The quick actions control helps you to quickly create entities such as Supplier, Plant, and Upload Entities or Assets. |
| 2 | Open Apps | All the open windows are grouped into the respective Apps. Other Open Windows is a placeholder for the open windows that are not a part of any App. For example, consider that you perform a search in "Thing Domain Search" App by loading a saved search. This open window is a part of Search Thing Domain app. Further, if you click on any Supplier in the search results, the Entity Manage page is displayed. As the Entity Manage page is not a part of any App, this is grouped in Other Open Windows. |
| 3 | Home App | This app displays a set of configured widgets where you can visualize user tasks in groups via apps and widgets. The dashboard demonstrates the user's overall operational tasks for quick operations. This is the place where you can manage your tasks. |
| 4 | Search Suppliers | This app helps you to navigate to, search on, and filter out any entity defined within the system, as well as perform necessary actions on the refined entities. This app allows simple to complex search criteria to identify products that you want to select and process further. This app is designed with a single search interface that represents a powerful tool to search through an organization’s entire repository of master data to find the right record. This improves internal efficiency, data access and data quality (due to reduced duplicate record generation). |
| 5 | Digital Asset Library App | This app helps you to navigate to, search on, and filter out any assets defined within the system. It helps you to manage the assets as well as perform necessary actions on refine assets. |
| 6 | Reference Data Library App | This app allows you to maintain reference data. It allows you to search for reference data and edit as per the requirement. Reference Data helps in easy data creation and data maintenance. |
| 7 | Visual Analytics App | This app allows you to manage your reports for better understanding of business decisions. |
| 8 | Configurations | This app allows you to manage System Reference Data, and various data models. |
| 9 | System Administration | This app allows you to integrate systems, configure Global UI settings, and also monitor and troubleshoot errors. |