Creating Product Specialties
Align operations users can create product specialty records to store promotion eligibility. Centralizing this data in Vault means teams can take advantage of Vault's native lifecycle and workflow tools to build review and approval processes around product specialty matrices.
Who can use this feature?
- Align Operations Users — Browser
- Users require an Align license
Configuring Product Specialties for
To configure this feature:
- Ensure Configuring Align is complete.
- Navigate to Admin > Users & Groups > Permission Sets.
- Select the appropriate permission set.
- Select the Objects tab.
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Grant the following permissions:
Object Object Permission Object Types Fields Field Permission aln_product_specialty__v
CRED
product_specialty__v
- eligibility_reason__v
- external_id__v
- product__v
- promotion_eligibility__v
- requested_promotion_eligibility__v
- specialty__v
Edit
- Navigate to the Tabs tab.
- Grant access to the aln_product_specialty__v tab.
- Navigate to the Application tab.
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Select the following check boxes in the Workflows section:
- Start
- Participate
- Navigate to Admin > Users & Groups > Vault Users.
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Assign the following application roles to the appropriate users:
- aln_brand_manager__v
- aln_medical_reviewer__v
- aln_legal_reviewer__v
Creating Product Specialties as
Align operations users can create product specialty records when there is a new product or specialty to add:
- Navigate to the Product Specialties tab.
- Select Create.
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Populate the following fields:
- product__v – The associated product
- specialty__v – The associated specialty
- requested_promotion_eligibility__v – Select the appropriate promotional eligibility to request. Available options are:
- promotion_allowed__v
- promotion_prohibited__v
- educational_only__v
- eligibility_reason__v – Select the appropriate eligibility reason
- Select Save.
This process can also be done via the Vault Loader.
Additionally, the lifecycle of the aln_product_specialty__v object supports customizable workflows that enable the newly requested product specialty to be routed to legal and medical teams for approval.

