Business Units

The first thing a system administrator typically does in FDM is to set up the business units for his or her organization and define their properties in the Business Units view. In this node you can also configure two of FDM’s most useful and time-saving features for each business unit—the meter access program and the audit engine.

The Business Units view features a standard FDM list filter editor that lets you filter the list by the business unit name, enabled market type (electric, gas, water, or telemetry), or by any combination of these criteria. As is the case with many FDM lists, you can export the business units list as currently filtered and sorted to a CSV file (for more information, see Exporting FDM lists to CSV files).

Once you have set up your business units and created business unit users for them, you can grant those users permissions to modify their business unit’s properties (for more information, see User Identities). They then have access through the Business Administration workbench’s Business Unit Properties view to the same business unit properties that the system administrator has access to through the System Administration workbench’s Business Units view, but only for their own business units.