This documentation supports the 22.1 version of BMC Helix Digital Workplace Basic and BMC Helix Digital Workplace Advanced. Icons distinguish capabilities available only for the Advanced and External license levels. For more information, see License-types-and-features.

Managing virtual marketplaces by different users


As a service catalog administrator, internal service supplier administrator, internal service supplier, or asset manager, you can create virtual marketplaces to entitle published services, bundles, and banners to end users and user groups.

The following illustration shows the Entitlements page where you create and manage virtual marketplaces:

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BMC Helix Digital Workplace Catalog users have the following capabilities for maintaining virtual marketplaces:

Capability

Catalog administrator

Internal service supplier

Internal service supplier administrator

Asset manager

Supported

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Not supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Not supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported

Supported

To enable the full catalog view

You can turn on the Enable full catalog view toggle on the Entitlements page to enable full catalog view so that all users can view and request all services and bundles in the catalog (unless the items are included in the restricted entitlements list).

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When the Enable full catalog view is toggled on, BMC Helix Digital Workplace users will see a company preferred badge in the tiles of services to which they are entitled. For information about how services are displayed to end users, see Virtual-marketplaces.

To restrict services to only entitled users

You can restrict some services and bundles from being displayed to end users when the full catalog view is enabled.

  1. Select Services > Entitlements.
  2. Click the Restricted Services tab.
  3. Click Add Service, and add the services to the list. 
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Only users entitled to services through virtual marketplaces can view and request services available on the Restricted Services tab.

To view service entitlements by users

You can view services, bundles, and banners that are available to a selected user.

  1. Select Services > Entitlements.
  2. Click the Entitlements by User tab.
  3. Select the user.
  4. Click View User Entitlements.

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To manage virtual marketplaces

You can update, rename, and delete virtual marketplaces that you have created.

Simply clickicon-option.png to open a menu with those options.

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Important

As a catalog administrator, you can also manage virtual marketplaces created by other users.

For information about how to create and configure virtual marketplaces, see Creating-virtual-marketplace-entitlements.