Managing Form Security in Workflow

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You can access the Workflow Administrator Certification videos in the Workflow Onboarding Curriculum article.

Your Workflow processes may include steps with sensitive information that should not be visible to all process participants. With this in mind, you have the ability to control the visibility of each form. In the Security tab of the template builder, you can easily determine who should see what and when by utilizing the lock and unlock icons on each step. Select each step individually to view which subsequent or previous steps are visible for the users assigned to the selected step. Visible steps are indicated by a black, unlocked icon, whereas a step that should not be visible is indicated by a red, locked icon.

When configuring Security for a given step, anything before that step will impact what the assignee sees from both their Inbox and History. Anything after that step will impact what the assignee sees from History.

An Edit Workflow Template screen showing fields for selecting an instrument and workflow type, followed by a template diagram with configuration and security tabs. The diagram displays workflow steps labeled Candidate, Department Chair, Dean, and Review Committee, with lock icons indicating access settings. The sidebar shows editable step details including name, type, scope, and an action label with a Configure Form button. Additional branching options appear for process completion and fast‑forward settings, along with an option to delete the template step and buttons to cancel or save.

My candidate shouldn’t see certain information until a specific step is complete. Can I accommodate that? 
Yes, by utilizing candidate response steps. You can set up the initial candidate submission step to prevent candidate from seeing future information (all subsequent steps have the locked icon when the first step is selected); then you can set up a future candidate response step to allow users to to see selected steps prior steps when the response step begins.

An Edit Workflow Template screen showing workflow step details for Candidate Response, including fields for name, type, scope, and an action label, with a Configure Form button. The template diagram displays steps labeled Candidate, Department Chair, Dean, Review Committee, and Candidate Response, with lock icons indicating access settings and Department Chair and Candidate Response highlighted. Branching options appear for process completion and fast‑forward settings, along with an option to delete the template step highlighted and buttons to cancel or save.

It's important to note that visibility settings should be considered for each step in a given template. Make sure you carefully consider this setting for each step, especially for processes such as promotion and tenure, where certain forms after the candidate step should not be visible to the candidate member.

Note: Committee Member forms are not included in these settings. Committee Member responses are only visible while the committee step is active and only to the participants of that step. To control whether members of a committee can see each others’ responses, you must enable member visibility from within the form.

The Workflow module is available to add to Faculty Success for an additional fee. To learn more about adding it for your institution, please contact your Client Success Manager.

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