Managing Space membership

If Spaces are enabled in an IBM® API Connect Catalog, you can manage the members within the Space. You manage Space membership by adding new users to the Space and assigning roles to the users.

Before you begin

To manage Space members in the API Manager UI, a user must be assigned a role that has the Child > Manage permission for the Catalog that contains the Space. For more information on assigning Space permissions to a role, see Managing user access in a Space.

About this task

Note: You can add the same user to two or more Spaces and assign different roles in each, allowing a user to have differing levels of access in different Spaces.

Procedure

  1. In the navigation pane of the API Manager UI, click Manage icon in the API Manager UI navigation pane Manage, then select the catalog that you want to work with.
  2. Click the Spaces tab.
  3. Select the space that you want to work with.
  4. Click the Members tab.
  5. To add an existing user, click Add > Add member. To add a new user, click Add > Invite member.
    If you are using the Add member option, you can add any user who is already a member of another Space, or of a Catalog, in the provider organization, and is neither currently a member of this Space, nor the Space owner.
  6. Enter the email address of a new user, or search for, and select, an existing user.
  7. Select the roles that you want to assign to the user.

    For details of the roles and the default permissions assigned to them, see API Connect user roles. For details on how to create your own roles, see Creating custom roles.

    If a user was originally added either to the provider organization, or to the Catalog that contains the Space, rather than to the Space itself, the following conditions apply:
    • Any role assigned to the user at the provider organization or Catalog level is assigned automatically to the user in all Spaces, and cannot be removed at the Space level.

      For details on adding a user to a provider organization, see Adding provider organization users and assigning roles.

      For details on adding a user to a Catalog, see Managing Catalog membership.

    • In the Space, the user has the permissions that are configured for the role at the Space level.

      For details on configuring role permissions for a Space, see Managing user access in a Space.

    • Any role that hasn't been assigned to the user at the provider organization or Catalog level can be assigned at the Space level
    Note: You can subsequently change the roles assigned to a user by selecting or clearing the appropriate check boxes alongside that user on the Members page.
  8. If you are adding an existing user, click Add. If you are adding a new user, click Invite.