Creating virtual marketplace entitlements
Service catalog administrators, internal service suppliers, and asset managers create virtual marketplaces to associate services, bundles, and banners that appear in a BMC Digital Workplace user's catalog with users who can access them.
This topic describes how to create virtual marketplace entitlements.
Before you begin
- You must have the BMC Digital Workplace Catalog user database synchronized with theBMC Digital Workplace user database. For information about how to synchronize users see Copying users from Remedy ITSM into BMC Digital Workplace Catalog.
- You must have a Remedy connector configured. For information about how to configure a Remedy connector, see Remedy connector.
- If you have multiple Remedy connectors configured, you must select a default connector for entitlements and approvals in the Application Settings > Default Connections. For information about how to configure a default connection, see Integrating Remedy applications with BMC Digital Workplace Catalog.
To create a virtual marketplace
- From the main menu, click Entitlements.
Click New Virtual Marketplace.
Enter a Virtual Marketplace Name, and click Create.
To edit, rename, or remove an existing virtual marketplace, select a virtual marketplace, and click 
(menu option)
Tip
If you have many virtual marketplaces with similar names, and it takes time to find them on the Entitlements page, use a CTRL F browser search, and search virtual marketplaces by name.
To create virtual marketplace entitlements
You create entitlements by adding services, bundles, banners, users, attributes, groups, and administrators to a virtual marketplace.
To add services, bundles, and banners to virtual marketplaces
You add and remove entitlements to services, bundles, and banners in the Services & Banners section of the Edit Virtual Marketplace panel.
Beside the Catalog, click Add.
Find the available services and bundles by searching or filtering them as required.
Select one or more services and bundles, and click Add.
Next to the Banners catalog, and click Add.
- Select the available banners, and click Add.
To add users to virtual marketplaces
In a virtual marketplace, you can add BMC Digital Workplace users available in the BMC Digital Workplace Catalog user database.
You add and remove users to virtual marketplaces in the People section of the Edit Virtual Marketplace panel:
You can add users to virtual marketplaces in any of the following ways:
To add individual users
Beside the Users, click Add.
Find the available users by searching or filtering them as necessary.
Note
Only users with Enabled profile status are available for search.
Select the service catalog items to add, and click Add.
To add user groups
Groups are unique to BMC Digital Workplace Catalog, and created when you add or synchronize BMC Remedy IT Service Management users and groups. The synchronization process creates three different groups, based on the following information from the BMC Remedy IT Service Management CTM:People table:
- Company
- Company - Organization
- Company - Organization - Department
When you add a user group to a virtual marketplace, the users within that group are entitled to the items attached to the virtual marketplace.
Perform the following steps to add user groups to a virtual marketplace:
- Beside the Attributes, click Add.
- Click the Custom Groups tab.
- Search for a group that you want to add.
- Select the group, and click Save.
To add users from dynamic filters by ITSM Core attributes
You can add users by selecting attributes that are generated from the BMC Remedy IT Service Management People form. Attributes in BMC Digital Workplace Catalog Administration console include a field name and the existing values that are specified in the profiles of existing users in BMC Remedy IT Service Management.
You can create dynamic filters by the following attributes from the CTM:People form:
| Core attributes | Custom attributes |
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Perform the following steps to add users from dynamic filters:
- Beside the Attributes, click Add.
Filter users by core attributes as follows:
Click the ITSM Core tab, and expand the available categories as needed.
Select the attributes that you want to assign, and click Save.
The following illustration shows the ITSM core attributes that you can assign:
Note
ITSM Core attributes with no values are displayed as labels in the attributes tree.
The following illustrations show the BMC Remedy ITSM CTM:People form.
Filter users by custom attributes as follows:
- Click the Other Fields tab, and expand the available categories as needed.
Select the attributes that you want to assign, and click Save.
The following illustration shows other ITSM attributes that you can assign.
The following illustration shows the BMC Remedy ITSM CTM:People form.
To add all users to virtual marketplaces
You can add all users to a virtual marketplace by enabling the Everyone toggle in Edit Virtual Marketplace panel.
All users will have access to the services, banners, and bundles in this virtual marketplace.
To assign administrators for virtual marketplaces
You add administration permissions for virtual marketplaces in the Administrators section of the Edit Virtual Marketplace panel as follows:
Under Administrators, click Add to find administrators to add.
The User Directory contains the list of users with the appropriate permissions to manage virtual marketplaces.
Tip
To remove virtual marketplace administrators, click
beside a user to remove, and confirm to removal.Use the Search and Filter tools as necessary.
- Select the users to add, and then click Add.
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