Roles installed with Field Service Management

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Roles are added with Field Service Management.

Role title [name]

Description

Contains Roles

Field Service Management Administrator[wm_admin]

Manages data related to field service management. Field service management administrators also can:- Control and override all information in the Field Service Management application.

  • Delete work orders and tasks.
  • Create tasks using the Clone Task feature.
  • Create, edit, and delete work order models and work task models.
  • Create, edit, and delete incidentals.
  • View expense lines.
  • View certain fields in non-subscription-based contracts.
  • Create questionnaires.
  • Book an appointment.
  • Create, read, upload, and delete ACLs for Custom Map Screen and Custom Map Provider.
  • Review quality management configuration, auto close configuration, and monitor the quality dashboard.
  • Manage the Acceptance due date, and work management order fields.
  • Migrate UI actions to questionnaires.
  • wm_approver_user
  • fsm_skill_admin
  • dynamic_scheduling_admin
  • wm_agent
  • skill_model_admin
  • skill_admin
  • territory_admin
  • sn_apptmnt_booking.appointment_booking_admin
  • plan_maint_admin
  • wm_dispatcher
  • questionnaire_admin
  • catalog_admin
  • wm_qualifier
  • knowledge_manager
  • template_admin

Field Service Management Agent[wm_agent]

Manages actual task time and performs work on site. Agents also can:- Accept or reject tasks assigned to them.

  • Add parts requirements.
  • Source parts.
  • Create tasks using the Clone Task feature.
  • Add work notes to work orders and work order tasks.
  • Submit questionnaires.
  • Create, edit, and delete incidentals.
  • View expense lines.
  • View certain fields in non-subscription-based contracts.
  • Book an appointment.

Agents can’t update schedule or task window times or toggle the window control.

  • wm_basic
  • skill_user
  • inventory_user
  • territory_user
  • document_management_user
  • agent_schedule_user
  • questionnaire_user
  • sn_apptmnt_booking.appointment_booking_manager
  • timecard_user
  • fsm_skill_user

Field Service Management location agent[wm_location_agent]

  • Accept or reject tasks assigned to them.
  • Create tasks using the clone task feature.
  • Add work notes to work orders and work order tasks.

Note: Work Management and Service Organization plugins are to be installed.

wm_location_security

Field Service Management location manager[wm_location_assignment_manager]

  • Create, read, and write work orders.
  • Create, read, and write work order tasks.
  • Assign work order tasks to fulfillers within their own service organizations.

Note: Work Management and Service Organization plugins are to be installed.

  • wm_location_security
  • fsm_skill_user

Field Service Management Approver User[wm_approver_user]

Responsible for approving work orders before they’re qualified or assigned.

  • approver_user
  • cmdb_read

Field Service Management Basic[wm_basic]

Create work orders and follow up on work orders they had created. Common data access shared by all field service roles.

  • task_activity_writer
  • skill_user
  • inventory_user
  • territory_user
  • wm_read
  • service_fullfiller
  • document_management_user
  • fsm_skill_user

Field Service Management Dispatcher[wm_dispatcher]

Schedules tasks, adds parts, and assigns tasks to work agents. Dispatchers also can:- Create tasks.

  • Add part requirements.
  • Source parts.
  • Edit all work order task fields and manage tasks from Draft to Assigned status.
  • Edit the Assigned to field until work starts.
  • Create tasks using the Clone Task feature.
  • Set actual travel time and work start and end times if needed.
  • Add work notes to any field service record.
  • Create, edit, and delete incidentals.
  • View expense lines.
  • View certain fields in non-subscription-based contracts.
  • wm_basic
  • inventory_user
  • territory_user
  • dynamic_scheduling_user
  • document_management_user
  • sn_customerservice.customer_data_viewer
  • skill_model_user
  • sn_apptmnt_booking.appointment_booking_manager
  • timecard_user

Field Service Management Initiator[wm_initiator]

Creates work orders and assigns qualification group. Initiators also can:- Edit work orders that they create that are in the Draft state.

  • Add work notes to any field service record.
  • View work order tasks and part requirements.

wm_basic

Field Service Management Initiator Qualifier[wm_initiator_qualifier]

Initiator-qualifiers can:- Create work orders.

  • Create tasks.
  • Add part requirements.
  • Source parts.
  • Assign skills to agents.
  • View incidentals.
  • wm_initiator
  • wm_qualifier

Field Service Management Initiator Qualifier Dispatcher[wm_initiator_qualifier_dispatcher]

Initiator-qualifier-dispatchers can:- Create work orders.

  • Create tasks.
  • Add parts requirements.
  • Source parts.
  • Assign skills to agents.
  • Assign work to agents.
  • Manage agent tasks.
  • View incidentals.
  • wm_initiator
  • wm_dispatcher
  • wm_qualifier

Field Service Management Manager[wm_manager]

Field Service Managers can:- Manage agent skills

  • Manage time cards
  • View and maintain work schedules
  • View and maintain personal events
  • fsm_skill_admin
  • wm_agent
  • timecard_manager
  • agent_schedule_manager

Field Service Management Qualifier[wm_qualifier]

Qualifies work orders and creates work order tasks. Qualifiers also can:- Edit work orders in the Qualified state.

  • Edit work orders in the Awaiting Qualification state.
  • Edit tasks that are in the Draft state to provide technical details, such as information about CIs involved or parts needed.
  • Create tasks using the Clone Task feature.
  • Change the qualification group.
  • Set the dispatch group.
  • Add part requirements.
  • Source parts
  • Add work notes to any field service record.
  • View incidentals.
  • wm_basic
  • inventory_user
  • territory_user
  • document_management_user
  • skill_model_user

Field Service Management Read[wm_read]

Capable of reading work orders and work order tasks.

  • sn_apptmnt_booking.appointment_booking_user
  • cmdb_read

Field Service Desk Agent [sn_fsm_servicedesk_agent]

Allows a user to create a work order, apply a template, and progress the work order.

  • wm_read
  • sn_apptmnt_booking.appointment_booking_user

Field Service Management Task Initiator[wm_task_initiator]

Create, delete, and modify work order tasks and part requirements when both the work order and work order task are in the draft state.

wm_initiator

Field Service Management Proxy Admin [sn_fsm_proxy_actn.proxy_admin]

Required to create or edit a proxy policy.

  • sn_fsm_proxy_actn.proxy_agent
  • delegation_admin

Field Service Proxy Agent [sn_fsm_proxy_actn.proxy_agent]

Required to perform a proxy action. Every user who performs a proxy action needs

 

## Role integration with Customer Service Management

When you enable the Case Management Core plugin (com.sn_customerservice) along with the Field Service Management plugin (com.snc.work_management) and add specific Customer Service roles to Field Service agents, they can view or create a case and also view additional customer service data. For more information on customer service agent roles, see Roles installed with Customer Service Management.

Adding this role

Allows agents

sn_customerservice.case_viewer

  • To have read access to cases.
  • To view all fields in a case that a customer service agent [sn_customerservice_agent] can access.

sn_customerservice.customer_data_viewer

To have read-only access to customer data entities such as:- Install base items

  • Contracts
  • Entitlements
  • Accounts, contacts, and account team members
  • Assets
  • Consumers
  • Sold product

sn_csm_proxy_cont

To create a case using a record producer.

wm_location_security

View data based on the provider service organization.

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