Managing master data by using Product Master

The Persona-based UI provides an enhanced user interface, which includes improved navigation experience, search, and collaboration areas on a home page depending upon your role and privileges.

Service This service is not available by default. An administrator must install this service on the IBM Cloud Pak® for Data platform. To determine whether the service is installed, open the Services catalog and check whether the service is enabled.

Follow these steps to access Persona-based UI of the Product Master:
  1. Run the following command:
    # oc get routes | grep ibm-nginx-svc
    The result should look similar to the following example:
    NAME         HOST        PATH                   SERVICES                   PORT                TERMINATION      WILDCARD
cpd          <HOST>                           ibm-nginx-svc          ibm-nginx-https-port      passthrough        None
    The Persona-based UI for the interface is the output of the HOST column that is appended with an https://.

    Example

    https://<HOST>/mdm_ui/
You can choose from 11 different personas depending on the managing task that you want to perform. Following are the details.
Persona Description
Admin User that has complete access for spec management. Can update any existing spec or create a new one as required. An Admin user can access the Data Model Manager that contains the Spec Console along with the Full Admin and the Solution Developer role.
Basic User who can perform basic tasks in the application.
Catalog Manager User who has write access on the Catalog and hence can manipulate items directly into the catalog. This user is also able to add or update hierarchies, categories, and is also responsible for approval of the content in the collaboration areas.
Category Manager User responsible for hierarchy maintenance and modification. This user has limited access to catalogs, but full permissions on selection-designated hierarchy contents (read/write). This user can add, move, copy, map, and search on categories in a selection. This user can also create or run imports and reports for the hierarchies for which responsible and also can edit or approve collaboration area content.
Content Editor User who is responsible for adding and manipulating the data (products) into the system. The data can be entered by running import or through manual data entry. This user works on the items in the collaboration area only and typically does not have direct write access into the catalog.
Digital Asset Management User who is responsible for managing the digital assets in system and has access to Digital Asset catalog only.
Full Admin User who is an application administrator and has end-to-end access to all features of the application.
Merchandise Manager User who is responsible for associating the correct digital assets with the items or products in the system.
Service Account User who can access DAM REST APIs for external integration. For more information, see Product Master API.
Solution Developer User who is responsible for working on the specifications that are shared by the solution architects.
Vendor External user who accesses IBM® Product Master application as a Vendor portal user to add or update items from the collaboration area specific to the vendor. This user has access to items in the catalog from the vendor only.

For more information, see Managing master data in the Product Master documentation.