Managing the lifecycle of data products with the My work dashboard
Data producers manage the lifecycle of their data products on the My work dashboard. From My work, you can publish, edit, or delete drafts. You can view your published data products and retire them as needed.
You can manage the stages of a data product's lifecycle. The stages include authoring drafts, publishing for the data community, and retiring them when no longer needed.
- Required roles to complete this task
- Collaborator role: Editor or Admin
- Working with draft data products
- Working with published data products
- Working with retired data products
Working with draft data products
Draft data products are not available to the community on Data Product Hub. All elements of a draft data product can be edited until it is published. When you are finished editing a draft, you publish it to make it available on Data Product Hub.
From the Drafts page, you can view your in-progress data products and select one to edit.
To create a new draft, click New data product.
Editing a draft data product
Select Edit from the Actions menu 
on the tile to view and edit the details for a draft. On the draft details
page, you can edit the following elements:
- Title
- Primary business domain
- Version number
- Data product contents
- Recommended usage
- Data contract
Publishing a draft
From the tile for a draft, select Publish from the Actions menu to publish the draft and make it available
on Data Product Hub.
When a data producer publishes their data product, they describe typical use cases for the data product. See Introduction to publishing data products.
Deleting a draft
From the tile for a draft, choose Delete from the Actions menu to remove the draft entirely from Data Product
Hub.
Working with published data products
Published data products can be minimally edited. You can edit the name, the contents of the data product cannot be changed after it is published. It remains available on Data Product Hub until you retire it.
Creating new versions of data products
To make extensive updates to your data product, you can create a new version. You can add or delete data assets, change the available delivery methods, manage the access level, and update the contract information. By regularly creating new versions to update your data products, you ensure that subscribers receive accurate and current data. You can also incorporate consumer feedback to enhance the data product’s usability.
When you publish a new version, the current version is automatically retired. Consumers subscribe to the most recent version. Version numbers identify the iterations of a data product to help both data consumers and producers track a data product over time.
To create a new version:
- From your Published tab, click the Action menu for a published data product and select Create a new version.
- Follow the provided format and give your new version a unique version number. Then, create a new version of the data product.
- Update fields for the data product such as primary business domain, access level, and data contract as needed. You can also add or delete data assets and delivery methods.
- After you complete your edits, publish the new version of your data product.
- Verify your new data product version in the Published tab.
Working with retired data products
You can retire any available data product. Retired data products are not available for new subscriptions by consumers. They cannot be edited and are not listed on Data Product Hub. Retired data products cannot be published again.
When you retire a data product, it is removed from the Home page and no new subscriptions are allowed. However, the impact on existing subscribers depends on the delivery method, as follows:
- Existing subscribers using the Flight delivery method continue to have Flight access to the data product and receive refreshed data.
- Existing subscribers using the data extract or direct download delivery method must subscribe to a new version of the data product to receive refreshed data. They continue to have access to the data they initially subscribed to by using the download link.
To retire a data product:
- View your published data products on the My work>Published tab.
- Select Retire from the Actions menu .
Next steps
Parent topic: Publishing a data product