Subscribing to a data product

With Data Product Hub, you can browse and subscribe to data products for your business needs. You can view your subscriptions on My subscriptions.

Placing a data product subscription

Required roles to complete this task
Collaborator roles: Viewer, Editor, or Admin

From the Data Product Hub home page, you can discover data products published by your community or search for specific data products. When you are ready to subscribe, you can click Subscribe from the data product tile. If you need more information to help you decide, click the product tile and view the product details.

When you subscribe to a data product, you must indicate your preferred delivery method for each item in the data product and agree to the data contract. After your subscription request is completed, you can access each item using your preferred delivery method.

Watch this video to see an overview of how Data Product Hub can enable data consumers to discover, understand, and subscribe to data products.

This video provides a visual method to learn the concepts and tasks in this documentation.

Reviewing the data product contents

You can review the product details of a data product to determine whether a data product supports your business needs.

Click the data product tile to review the following product details:

  • Domain and publisher:
    • The business domain that was assigned by the publisher.
    • The publisher's name, the version number, version history, and the published date.
  • Data product contents:
    • Provides a brief description of the item and its origin.
  • Recommended usage:
    • Provides a description for an example application of the data product.
  • Data contract:
    • Provides the terms and conditions for using the data product, which can be obtained either from a URL or from an uploaded PDF file.

Subscribing to a data product

After reviewing the product details, complete the following steps to complete your subscription request:

  1. From the data product contents page, click Subscribe to open the Subscriptions details pane.
  2. Choose the delivery method for each item in the data product.
  3. Agree to the terms and conditions listed by the data contract.
  4. Optional: Provide a brief description of your intended use of the data product, the business needs you want to address, and the outcome you hope to achieve.

Accessing a data product

Data products are accessed differently depending upon the delivery method. You can check a data product's delivery status in your My subscriptions page. To ensure that all subscriptions reflect the latest updates, click the Refresh status icon Refresh status icon.

The download links expire after 7 days. If your download link expires before you access your data product, you can refresh the subscription to receive a new link.

To access the data product:

  1. Open the My Subscriptions page and locate your data product.

  2. Access your data product according to the delivery method used:

    • For Download, download your data product from a connection to your local directory.
    • For Open URL, access your data product by using the provided link. For some data products, you can view the content in the subscription window. Otherwise, you can view the content in a new browser tab.
    • For Data extract, download your data product as a file extract from a target connection.
    • For Live access with Flight service, run the provided code snippet to retrieve your data product.

For more details about the available delivery methods, see Working with delivery methods in Data Product Hub.

Viewing and managing your subscriptions

You can view your subscriptions on My subscriptions. You can view the following details of your subscriptions:

  • The subscription number
  • The data product name, description, and version number
  • The subscription date and subscription status
  • A list of items in the data product with delivery links to access each item

You can filter your list of subscriptions by status or date range. To view your subscriptions for a specific date range, enter Start and End dates. You can filter by the following statuses:

  • Delivered - Every item in the data product was successfully delivered and can be accessed.
  • Partially delivered - Some of the items in the data product were successfully delivered, but one or more items could not be delivered. To resolve partial deliveries, ensure that you have valid credentials for the data source connection. Select Redeliver from the Options menu Options menu to attempt to redeliver the missed items.
  • In progress - The delivery is currently in progress and will complete soon.
  • Waiting for approval - The data product requires approval. The request has been sent to the approver but has not yet been approved.
  • Failed - Delivery failed for all items in the data product. To resolve failed deliveries, ensure that you have valid credentials for the data source connection. Select Redeliver from the Options menu Options menu to attempt to redeliver.
  • Archived - You have moved the subscription to the Archived list for storage. You can unarchive it at anytime.

To hide subscriptions that are outdated or not needed, select Archive from the Options menu Options menu. Archived subscriptions are not deleted, they are removed from the My subscriptions list. You can view your archived subscriptions by filtering your My subscriptions list. You can add archived subscriptions back to your subscriptions list by selecting Unarchive from the Options menu Options menu.

Parent topic: Discovering data products