Managing the Data Product Hub community
The Data Product Hub administrator adds users or groups to the community and assigns the appropriate roles. The roles control access to the actions that can be taken on Data Product Hub.
- Required roles to complete this task
- Collaborator role: Admin
Adding members or groups
To add members to Data Product Hub, they must first be added to the IBM Cloud account and assigned appropriate IAM roles. The added members must log in to their IBM Cloud account and accept their invitations. You can add individual users or user groups as community members. You create user groups in IBM Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM). Roles that are assigned to groups apply to all members of the group.
To add members to the community:
- From the navigation menu, click Administration > Configurations and settings. Then, click Community.
- Click Add members and choose whether to add members as Viewer, Editor, or Admin.
- Select the individual users or access groups from your IBM Cloud account. You can use the Show drop-down to organize the complete list of members by Users and Groups. Then, click Add to confirm your selection.
Assigning roles
You must assign a collaborator role to each member of your data community. Each collaborator role has different tools and processes available to them to help fulfill their business goals.
To assign a member to a collaborator role:
- Select the Actions menu
next to the user or group. - Assign the Viewer, Editor, or Admin role.
To assign roles more quickly, you can select multiple members and update their roles simultaneously:
- Check mark all the members who need new collaborator roles.
- Click the Role icon and choose the new collaborator role. Then, click Save to confirm your update.
- View the collaborator role and ensure that all members are assigned to the correct new role.
The roles are defined as:
- Viewer: For data product consumers who discover and subscribe to data products. The Viewer role provides minimal permissions.
- Editor: For data product producers who author, publish, and manage data products. The Editor role includes the permissions for Viewer.
- Admin: For administrators who add users and assign roles and other configuration tasks. The Admin role includes permissions for Viewer and Editor. The Admin role is usually assigned to one person who is responsible for managing users for Data Product Hub.
The following table shows the actions that you can complete depending on your collaborator role.
+ indicates that users need to be owners of a subscription or data product to perform the action.
| Action | Viewer | Editor | Admin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Log in to Data Product Hub | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| View the Data Product Hub home page | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Search for published data products | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Subscribe to a data product | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Send and receive notifying comments | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| View domains | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Request new data products | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| View subscriptions | ✓+ | ✓+ | ✓+ |
| Publish, edit, and delete data products | ✓+ | ✓+ | |
| Manage data products from My work page | ✓+ | ✓+ | |
| Create data product drafts and versions | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Add custom properties to a data product | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Accept or reject requests for new data products | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Approve access to data products | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Create a list of preapproved users | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Create connections to data sources | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Edit credentials for a shared connection | ✓ | ✓ | |
| View the insights dashboard | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Be assigned as domain owners | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Assign users as domain owners | ✓ | ||
| Create top-level domains | ✓ | ||
| Manage all domains | ✓ | ||
| Create, edit and delete subdomains | ✓ | ||
| Delete domains | ✓ | ||
| Assign and modify roles | ✓ | ||
| Create custom properties | ✓ |
Searching for a member or group
You can search for a member or a group in your community and open their IBM Cloud Access Identity and Access Management (IAM) page to review their user details and access policies. When you search for a member, the search results include the Access groups of which they are a member. Select a member or group to open the IBM Cloud Access Identity and Access Management (IAM) page.
Removing members from Data Product Hub
To remove a user or group from Data Product Hub:
- Select the Actions menu () next to the user or group that you want to remove.
- Select Remove.
When a member is removed, they can no longer access Data Product Hub. When a group is removed, all members within the group are removed.
Learn more
- Roles and permissions for Data Product Hub
- Adding users to the IBM Cloud account
- IBM Cloud docs: IAM access
Parent topic: Setting up and administering Data Product Hub