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 Cloud Pak for Data and assigned the User role. You can add individual users or user groups as community members. Roles that are assigned to groups apply to all members of the group.

To add members to the community:

  1. From the navigation menu, click Administration > Configurations and settings. Then, search for Data Product Hub and click Manage community.
  2. Click Add members to view a list of all individual users and access groups.
  3. Select Users to view individual users or Groups to view access groups.
  4. Check the box for individual users or groups and click Add to confirm your selection.

Assigning roles

New members are automatically assigned the Viewer role when they are added to the community. You can change roles as needed. To change the role for one member:

  1. Select the Actions menu Actions menu icon next to the user or group.
  2. Assign the Viewer, Editor, or Admin role.

To assign roles more quickly, you can select multiple members. Follow these steps to assign roles to multiple members:

  1. Check mark the members who need new roles.
  2. Click Role in the menu bar.
  3. Select the new role and click Save.

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.

Removing members from Data Product Hub

To remove a user or group from Data Product Hub:

  1. Select the Actions menu (Actions icon) next to the user or group that you want to remove.
  2. Select Remove.

When a member is removed, they can no longer access Data Product Hub. If a group is removed, all members are removed.

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