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Buyers creating sourcing documents can control visibility to the document by specifying a security level during the describe negotiation step. There are three possible security levels a buyer can select:
Public The document can be viewed by any other buyers in the buying organization.
Private The document can be viewed only by the creator, the creator's manager, and members of the document collaboration team (if any).
Hierarchy The document can be viewed only by the creator, the creator's manager, members of the document collaboration team (if any), and any members higher than the negotiation owner who are listed in the Security Hierarchy defined in Oracle Purchasing for that document type.
Security Levels and Collaboration Teams
The use of collaboration teams allows document creators to select a number of collaborators for the document creation and administration and define flexible security rules that can apply to each collaborator. For example, some collaborators can be defined as having read-only access, meaning they can view but not update the document throughout its lifecycle. Other members can be selected as approvers of the document. All members identified as approvers must approve the final version before the document can be published. Also, selected members can be assigned specific tasks which they must complete.
See Working with Collaboration Teams for more information on collaboration teams.