Share Terracotta DB connections

You can share Terracotta DB connections with particular users and user groups so that these have access to the Terracotta DB dataset and manage datasets with feed results.

Regardless of which users and user groups you have shared with, users with administration privilege can access all Terracotta DB aliases.

Procedure

  1. Open the MashZone NextGen Admin Console.
  2. Click Server to expand this section of the Administration menu.
  3. Click Terracotta DB.
  4. Click the Edit URL alias permissions icon of the Terracotta DB connection you want to share.
  5. Enter a term in the search field and click Search. Clicking on Search without any input values fetches all users and groups.
  6. Click Show MashZone NextGen default groups to show only default MashZone NextGen users or user group in the Search results field.
  7. Drag an user or user group from the Search result field and drop it into the Principals with permissions field.

    By default, the owner of the Terracotta DB connection is already present in the Principals with permissions list. This owner is non editable and cannot be removed from the list.

  8. Activate or deactivate the Display or Usage privileges of a user or user group.

    A user or user group with the Display privilege can see the relevant source data from the datasets in the data feed or dashboard, including datasets used for Materialized Feeds.

    A user or user group with the Usage privilege has access to the relevant Terracotta DB connection of the data source operator in the data feed editor. To access datasets with data feed results in the source operator, the user or user group needs the Usage privilege for the Materialized Feed alias and the Usage privilege for the Terracotta DB connection. To materialize data feed results in a dataset, the user or user group needs the Usage privilege for the materialized data feed alias, the Usage privilege for the associated Terracotta DB connection and the Display privilege for the corresponding data feed.

    See also Share Materialized Feeds.

  9. Click OK.

Your changes are applied.