Comparison: SBM Composer and SBM Application Administrator

SBM has two components, SBM Composer and SBM Application Administrator, that you use to create and manage applications and orchestrations.

In general, these two components are used as follows:

SBM Composer is used to design process apps, applications, and orchestrations. This includes designing workflows, custom forms, actions, and other elements. You also use SBM Composer to create roles and tie the roles to particular states or transitions.
SBM Application Administrator is used to configure applications after they are deployed. Specifically, you can add projects and make certain process overrides, add user and group accounts, assign users to specific roles, and create notifications.

The following sections describe the tasks you perform in each component.

Project Management

The following table describes the project management tasks that are performed from each component:

Task	Tool
Creating and editing projects	SBM Application Administrator

The following table describes which workflow, state, and transition management tasks are performed from each component:

Task	Tool
Creating a workflow (application or orchestration)	SBM Composer
Adding states to a workflow	SBM Composer
Adding transitions to a workflow	SBM Composer
Adding, deleting, or modifying actions for a state or transition (including scripts, triggers, events, Web services, and transitions)	SBM Composer
Restricting transitions by type, role, or rule	SBM Composer
Restricting transitions by group	SBM Application Administrator
Creating forms	SBM Composer
Associating privileges with a form (using roles)	SBM Composer

The following table describes which table and field management tasks are performed from each component:

Task	Tool
Adding a primary or auxiliary (non-system) table	SBM Composer
Adding system auxiliary tables (created when you create a database with Create Database wizard)	SBM System Administrator
Adding fields to a table	SBM Composer
Modifying field properties	SBM Composer
Modifying field overrides in a workflow, state, or transition	SBM Composer
Setting general field overrides	SBM Composer
Setting field overrides for specific projects or user fields	SBM Application Administrator
Adding roles to a user-type field	SBM Composer
Adding groups or users to a user-type field in primary table (via workflows)	SBM Application Administrator
Adding groups or users to a user-type field in an auxiliary table	SBM System Administrator
Enabling data import for primary or auxiliary tables	SBM System Administrator
Importing data into primary or auxiliary tables from a spreadsheet	SBM Application Administrator
Importing data into primary or auxiliary tables using an ODBC connection	SBM System Administrator

The following table describes which user, group, and role management tasks are performed from each component:

Task	Tool
Creating roles	SBM Composer
Creating users and groups	SBM Application Administrator
Assigning permissions to roles	SBM Composer
Assigning privileges to users	SBM Application Administrator
Assigning privileges to groups	SBM Application Administrator
Assigning users to groups	SBM Application Administrator
Assigning users and groups to roles	SBM Application Administrator
Modifying privileges for specific project or field section	SBM Application Administrator