If you have permissions to view an asset in the CentraSite registry, and you belong to a role that includes the Register as Consumer permission, the Consume action is enabled in the asset details page. This feature opens a dialog that lets you request the right to be a consumer of the displayed asset. You can request the right for any consumer application owned by any organization.

The request must be subsequently approved or rejected for by at least the owner of the asset. This functionality is not available to guest users.

In order to register as consumer for an asset, CentraSite requires that you have a design-time policy named Consumer-Provider Relationship Policy in CentraSite Control. This policy will process the consumer registrations that are initiated using the Consume action.

CentraSite does not provide a Consumer-Provider Relationship policy out-of-the-box. You must create this policy for your instance of CentraSite. At a minimum, this policy must include the Consume action, because this action performs the work of actually registering a consumer (that is, it establishes the actual relationship between the asset and the specified consumers) and execute the OnConsumerRegistration event. The OnConsumerRegistration event occurs when the owner of the asset approves the registration request, not when the user submits the registration request. If, in addition to the asset owner, you want designated individuals to review and approve the registration request, place an approval action before the Consume action.

The following section describes how to register a user to consume an asset.