Configuring Investigative Case Management responsibility definitions

  • Release version: Australia
  • Updated March 12, 2026
  • 1 minute to read
  • Configure responsibilities within a case, such as Crime Lab Technician, that can be assigned to users at the case level.

    Before you begin

    Role required: admin

    About this task

    A responsibility, or responsibility definition, specifies the role or function a user has within an entity or organization, determining access through relationships. When creating a relationship, users are assigned specific responsibilities that grant access to the entity and its related entities. In Investigative Case Management, responsibility definitions are used to delegate case access to team members working on an investigative case in the ICM workspace.

    You can use the responsibility definitions provided with the Investigative Case Management application to create teams. By default, Investigative Case Management comes with the following responsibility definitions that can be assigned within the case.

    Table 1. Responsibility table (Case Level)
    Responsibility
    Case Agent
    Coroners Office Liason
    Crime Lab Technician
    District Attorney
    Expert Analyst
    Internal Affairs Officer
    Investigative Assistant
    Special Agent in Charge
    Supervisory Agent

    For information on the responsibilities provided with ICM, see Assign user personas, roles, groups, and responsibilities in Investigative Case Management.

    As an admin, you can also modify these role responsibility definitions or create your own to meet your organization requirements and match common team member responsibilities within your investigations.

    About this task

    Note:
    If you modify the existing definitions or create definitions, you must update access control lists (ACLs) to reflect the changes.

    Procedure

    1. Navigate to All > Customer Service > Administration > Responsibility Definitions, or enter sn_customerservice_responsibility_def.list in the navigation filter.
    2. Select New.
    3. On the form, fill in the fields.
      Table 2. Responsibility Definition form fields
      Field Definition
      Name Name of the responsibility. For example, Probation Officer.
      Type Type of users to whom the responsibility can be assigned to. Select User if this responsibility should be assigned to an employee or user within the organization. When assigning this type, the list of available users comes from the users [sys_users] table.
      Unique Option that you can select to disable the duplicate entries for the responsibility definition. Leave this box unchecked.
    4. Select Submit.
      The new responsibility definition is created, and can be used to create teams at the case level within the investigative case record. To assign a responsibility to a team member within a case, see Create a case team for an investigative case.