Each CO Person Role can have a sponsor attached to it. The sponsor can be selected via an Enrollment Flow Attribute, or subsequently by manually editing the record.
The pool of eligible sponsors can be configured via CO Settings as follows:
- CO Administrators
- CO and COU Administrators
- Members of a specified CO Group
- Any valid CO Person
The sponsors capability may also be disabled. This may be advisable for deployments with large user populations, as disabling sponsors will reduce some database querying.
If a sponsor subsequently becomes ineligible to be a sponsor, they will remain as sponsors for any existing records. However, they may not become sponsors of new records, and any existing record must specify a new sponsor if edited.
Sponsor status may also be used in Expiration Policies. Note that expiration policies apply to the status of the sponsoring CO Person (ie: whether or not the CO Person is valid) and not to whether or not the CO Person is eligible to be a sponsor (CO-1140).