Registering Users to Consume Assets
If you have permissions to view assets in the catalog, and you belong to a role that includes the Register as Consumer permission, the Register as Consumer feature is enabled in the Actions menu when you browse or search the asset catalog in CentraSite Control. This feature opens a dialog that lets you request the right to be a consumer of one or more of the displayed assets. You can request the right for yourself, or for any user or group in any organization, or for any consumer application owned by any organization.
The request must be subsequently approved or rejected for each asset by at least one of the owners of the asset. This functionality is also available in the detail view of an asset by choosing the Register as Consumer menu entry in the Actions menu. This functionality is not available to guest users.
To register users to consume assets
2. In CentraSite Control, go to Asset Catalog > Browse.
3. Select the check box next to each of the required assets and click Actions > Register as Consumer.
4. In the User/Group field, use the Browse button to display a list of all users and groups from all organizations, and then select the one you want.
5. If you want to specify additional users or groups, use the plus button beside the User/Group field to create a new User/Group input field, then use the Browse button to select the required user or group as in the previous step.
6. In the Application field, choose an application asset from the selection box. The selection box shows Applications assets from all organizations.
7. If you want to specify additional application assets, use the plus button beside the Application field to create a new Application input field, and choose another application asset.
8. When you have specified all required users, groups and applications, click OK.
Requests to register the users, groups and/or applications are sent to the owner(s) of the assets.
9. The owner of each asset can either accept or decline a register as consumer request as follows:
a. Go to Home > My CentraSite > Consumer Registrations and click Pending Registrations.
b. To start the approval process for the request, select the check box next to the request and click Apply Registration Policies. This triggers the OnConsumerRegistration event, which in turn activates the Consumer-Provider Relationship Policy.
c. To decline the request, select the check box next to the request and click Decline. The Consumer-Provider Relationship Policy is not activated.
10. After the users, groups and/or applications are approved to consume an asset, you must specify those consumers in the asset's Consumers profile. The Consumers profile appears in the asset's detail page.
