Adding users to Order Hub

Administrators can give users access to Order Hub and also configure resource permissions to determine the pages and actions that users can access. Every user that wants access to Order Hub must belong to a user group.

It is recommended that you periodically review your user group resource permissions as Order Hub introduces new pages and actions. New pages and actions are not enabled by default for your custom user groups.

About this task

IBM® provides two user groups that you can use to quickly add users. The following table explains the default resource permissions for the IBM-provided user groups.
User groups for Order Hub
Group name Description
OCAdminGroup Users in this group have full access and can view all the following pages and complete all actions.
  • Home
  • Workspaces
  • Nodes
  • Orders
  • Shipments
  • Inventory
  • Fulfillment
    • Sourcing
    • Scheduling
    • Sourcing tester
  • Exceptions
  • Settings
    • Alert rules
    • Distribution groups
    • Configurations
OCBusUserGroup Users in this group have limited access when compared to OCAdminGroup. This group has access to the following pages.
  • Home
  • Workspaces
  • Nodes
  • Orders
  • Shipments
  • Inventory
  • Fulfillment
    • Sourcing (read only)
    • Scheduling (read only)
    • Sourcing tester
  • Settings
    • Alert rules
    • Distribution groups

Procedure

  1. Log in to the Starting the applications manager to add users to a user group.
  2. Select Applications > Applications Platform.
  3. Open Security > Groups.
  4. Open an existing group with Order Hub permissions and view the group details to see if the permissions meet your needs.
  5. If none of the existing groups meet your permission requirements, you must create a custom group.
    1. Open one of the existing groups (OCAdminGroup or OCBusUserGroup).
    2. Click Save as and enter a name for your new, custom group.
    3. Update the permissions for the new custom group.
    4. Click Save.
    For more information, see Defining user groups.
  6. To modify the user group permissions, open the Order Hub permissions module and edit the permissions as needed.
    Groups page is open with the Order Hub permissions module option highlighted
  7. Complete the following steps to assign existing users to the user group. If you add a user to multiple groups, the user has access to the highest permissions granted in any of the assigned groups.
    Note: Make sure that you keep your users in their current user groups for accessing the Applications Manager. These groups provide the necessary permissions to the underlying APIs that are used in the Order Hub user interface.
    1. Within the user group, select User Subscriptions.
    2. Click Find users to add to group.
    3. Search for the user or team and then click Add users to group.
    4. Click Save.
  8. Complete the following steps to assign new users who do not exist in the Application Platform console.
    1. Create the user within the Security > Users menu.
    2. Subscribe the user to an applicable user group such as OCAdminGroup . For more information about how to subscribe a user to a group, see Creating a user.
    Note:
    • Make sure that you also add the user to user groups that provide access to the Applications Manager. These groups provide the necessary permissions to the underlying APIs that are used in the Order Hub user interface.
    • The user groups that provide API access must include the Order Hub-related APIs getSBAWorkspaceList and manageSBAWorkspace, and the Order Hub-related services SBANodeMetrics and SBAManageOrgAlertData.