Contractor

The Contractor relationship is designed to emulate the situation when one Organisation (the Contractor) carries out fieldwork on behalf of another Organisation (the Utility). An example of this is when a municipality hires an Organisation to read its meters.

Linking

Is either by invitation or by registration of a Virtual Utility Organisation.
When the linking is by invitation, the Contractor Organisation or the Utility Organisation can send the invitation. It is implicit that the invitation is sent by a Registered Organisation.
The invitation can be sent to a Registered Organisation or a contact.
When the invitation is sent to a contact that is not a Registered Organisation, the contact needs to register first and then accept the invitation.
When the invitation is sent to a Registered Organisation, the Registered Organisation must accept the invitation, and then the Organisations are linked.
When a Contractor Organisation wishes to use the Field Manager Module and the Utility is not and will not register as an Organisation, the Contractor can set up the Utility as a Virtual Organisation.
There would be a virtual link between the Contractor Organisation and the Virtual Utility Organisation.

Delinking

A Contractor Organisation can delink from a Utility Organisation or from a Virtual Utility Organisation.
A Utility Organisation can de-link from a Contractor Organisation.

User Access

A Contractor Organisation has no User access to a Utility Organisation.
A Utility Organisation has no User access to a Contractor Organisation.
A Contractor Organisation can perform certain functions within a linked Virtual Utility Organization.