The following list describes the chapters within this guide:
- Understanding Participants
- This chapter provides a general definition of participants and
introduces the ten participant types. The ten participant types are:
persons, prospect persons, employers, prospect employers, product
providers, service suppliers, utilities, information providers,
representatives, and external parties. Note that the Educational
Institute is described under the participant types section because
it is presented in the application like other participant types.
However, this role is modeled as an Information Provider participant
role in the underlying application design.
- Maintaining Information for Participants
- This chapter provides information on registering participants,
on accessing participant information, and on maintaining participant
information. This chapter also describes the information that is
common to all participant types.
- Maintaining Additional Information for Persons or Prospect Persons
- This chapter describes the information that can be maintained
exclusively for persons and prospects.
- Merging Information for Persons and Prospect Persons
- This chapter describes merging information for persons and
prospect persons.
- Maintaining Additional Information for Employer or Prospect Employers
- This chapter describes the information that can be maintained
exclusively for employers.
- Maintaining Additional Information for Product Providers or Service Suppliers
- This chapter describes the information that can be maintained
exclusively for product providers or services suppliers.
- Maintaining Additional Information for External Parties
- This chapter describes the information that can be maintained
exclusively for external parties.