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This information is only relevant if the application is being operated in a hosted environment.

If you have a Host Administration user account, you can access Host Administration:

1. Enter the URL for the Host Administration site.
   
   
2. Sign into the application with the appropriate host administrator name and password.
   
   The general Host Administration welcome page appears. 
   
   In the left-hand frame of the browser window, you can use the tree menu to view items, and select tasks to perform.

Managing Host Information

You can modify information and settings for a host:

1. Click Host in the tree menu.
   
   The Host page appears where you can modify information.
   
   

2. Edit the information you want to modify:

3. Click [Save].

Managing Enterprises

Hosts provide procurement service to multiple Enterprises. Each Enterprise corresponds to a database in your Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition system. In Host Administration, you can identify an Enterprise database and the Enterprise that it represents. Host Administration uses this information to synchronize information between a host database and Enterprise databases.

This section describes how to:

• Add a new Enterprise
• Edit information for an Enterprise
• Test the connection between host database and an Enterprise database

The following describes information you can create or edit for an Enterprise:

Adding New Enterprises

Before you add a new Enterprise into Host Administration, the Enterprise must have an Enterprise database.

To add a new Enterprise into Host Administration:

1. In the tree menu, select Enterprises | New Enterprise
   
   
2. Enter information for the Enterprise.
   
   
3. Click [Save].

Host Administration automatically attempts an Enterprise database connection that uses the information in the Connection String text box.

Modifying Enterprises

To modify information for an Enterprise:

1. In the tree menu, select Enterprises | Enterprise Name
   
   
2. Edit information for the Enterprise. You can also click Delete to remove an Enterprise from the Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition.
   
   
3. Click [Save],

Testing Cached Enterprise Database Connections

You can test the connection between a host database and an Enterprise database:

1. In the tree menu, select Enterprises | Enterprise Name
   
   
2. Click Test Connection From Main Cache. This attempts an Enterprise database connection which uses the connection string stored in system cache.

Managing Host Users

You can manage Host Administration users. Typically, these users are system administrators for a hosted Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition system. They may have access to Host Administration and Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition Administration.

Adding New Users

To add a new user:

1. In the tree menu, select Users | New User
   
   
2. Enter a user name.
   
   
3. Establish a password for the user. Click Set New Password and in the page that appears, enter a password and a confirmation.
   
   
4. Click [Save].
   
   Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition displays the first Host User page, where you can provide additional information for the user.
   
   
5. Select a locale.
   
   
6. Click [Save].

Changing User Settings

To modify a Host Administration user's name, password and other information:

1. In the tree menu, select Users | User Name
   
   
2. Change the user's password. Click Set New Password and in the page that appears, enter a new password and a confirmation.
   
   
3. Click [Save].
   
   Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition displays the first Host User page, where you can edit other information for the user.
   
   
4. Enter a start and end date for this user. These specify the time period that this user can use Host Administration. After this time expires, the Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition does not allow user Host Administration access.
   
   
5. Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition uses a Java filter in these text boxes which allows spaces before the date, but not after the date.
   
   
6. Select a locale.
   
   
7. Click [Save].

Managing Privileges

You use privileges to manage a user's ability to view or change information in Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition. This section assumes that you are familiar with privileges in Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition and other related concepts.

Changing Privileges

You can view and change all privileges that are available in Enterprises that you host:

1. In the tree menu, select Privileges | List. In the right-hand frame of the browser window, 
   
   Host Administration displays all privileges that Enterprises can use. Each privilege name appears as a hyperlink.
   
   

2. Click on a privilege name. 
   
   Host Administration displays details about the privilege which you can modify. 
   
   You can also click Delete to remove the privilege from Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition. If you remove a privilege, it is no longer available for Enterprises to use.
   
   

3. Modify privilege information as follows:

    4.    Click [Save].

Synchronizing Privilege Information

After you save changes to privileges, you must update Enterprise databases with this information, as follows.

Occasionally, you will want to ensure that privilege information in your host database corresponds to information in Enterprise databases.

You do not typically synchronize privileges as part of normal Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition administration. Rather, you synchronize this information if your organization creates additional customizations for Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition. For example, if you add new privileges and the code the implements these privileges, you synchronize this information.

To update an Enterprise database with host privilege information:

1. In the tree menu, select Privileges | Synchronize.
   
   
2. Click [Synchronize]

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