Adding a Contract Responsibility
The Contract Responsibility field list is a special list that ties together three elements in assigning a contract responsibility to a user in the Contract Profile screen:
- Type of contract responsibility, such as Contract Manager or Attorney
- User type in accessing the program (user, company contact, legal entity person, or external party), either through the Login screen or the Portal
- Function(s) assigned to a user, company contact, legal entity person, or external party
A user with the List Admin permission creates a contract responsibility and then associates it to one or more functions and user types. Contract responsibilities are also used to set up the restrictions for the Requester and Approver roles used in a contract request template.
A List Admin should exercise care in setting up contract responsibilities since the dynamic between user functions and types may result in assigning a contract responsibility to a person who is not qualified. It is recommended that you test each responsibility individually by adding a contract to the system, adding the responsibility to the contract, and then viewing the list of people who can be assigned this responsibility. An easy alternative is to only assign user functions and leave all the user type check boxes empty.