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To use the MMT, you must have a CMR metadata provider context. Ensure that, for each of your providers, your Earthdata Login username for the appropriate environment (SIT, UAT, PROD) is a member of a group (normally the Administrator group for the provider) that has both 'Provider Context' and 'Provider Object ACLs' permissions. See Manage 'Provider Object Permissions' for a user group.
If you log in login to the MMT but have no provider context set, you will see the following page:
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Login to the MMT
Click on 'Earthdata Login with Launchpad', and log in login to the MMT using your Earthdata Login username and password Launchpad credentials for the appropriate environment (SIT, UAT, PROD)
Change Provider
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6. View an HTML rendering of your collection record on the 'preview panel':
7. Special NOTES when creating or editing a collection level record:
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2. On the Overview tab of the collection information page, click on Metadata Download: 'Available Formats'.
3. You will see a pop-up window asking you to choose the format in which you would like to download the collection metadata.
4. Click on the format that you would like. Your browser and local machine will now prompt you through the download process.
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6. View an HTML rendering of your collection record template on the 'preview panel':
7. Special NOTES when creating or editing a collection level record template:
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click on 'Create New Record'. A draft variable record will be created.
NOTE: Before a variable record can be published to the CMR, it must be associated with a published collection record. The collection association can be made before creating a new draft variable record by entering the collection Concept ID (if known) into the provided field OR the collection association can be made when completing the metadata forms (see below).
2. Begin filling in metadata fields for your draft variable record. Use the information icons (blue 'i') to get information about what fields mean and how to format their values.
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5. Follow progress of your draft record on the progress panel:
The icons on the progress panel have the following meanings:
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7. When all Required fields are complete with no validation errors (red icon) showing on the progress panel, and the variable record has been associated to a collection, you are ready to Publish your record to the CMR. Click on the 'Publish Variable Draft' button above the Progress Panel on the draft record page:
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NOTE: A prompt to enter a new Name and Long Name for the clone appears in the blue bar, and the progress panel indicates that the Name and Long Name have not yet been filled in.
4. On the progress panel, click on any section to begin editing the draft record (the clone). You must enter a new Name and Long Name for the clone. Use the progress panel and navigation buttons described above (Create a variable record in the CMR for my provider) to update the metadata in the draft record.
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Associate a Variable with a Collection for my provider
1. Before a variable record can be published to the CMR, it must be associated with a published collection record. The collection association can be made before creating a new draft variable record by entering the collection Concept ID (if known) into the provided field
2. If the collection Concept ID is unknown, the collection association can be made by on the 'Collection Association' metadata form
4. A Collection Association Search page will be displayed. Choose a Search Field from the pull-down selections, and enter a Search Term (value) for that Search Field. Note that wildcard searches are supported for some search fields. (The text below the search field will tell you if wildcard searches are supported for that field.)
A variable can only be associated with a single collection. If a collection is already associated with this variable, it will be displayed in the table.
6. A table of collections matching the collection search criteria will be displayed. Click on the checkbox beside the collection that you wish to associate with the variable, and click on Submit below the collection search results table. The selected collection will be associated with the variable.
7. A Collection Associations results page will be displayed, showing the collection now associated with the Variable.
NOTE: Because the collection / variable association operation is asynchronous, the results page may be displayed before all association has completed. You may need to click on the 'refresh the page' link to see the final results of the collection association.
Update a Variable - Collection Association for my provider
- Find the variable record using the instructions above (Find and view variable records in the CMR), and click on the Name of the variable in the search results table to view the variable display page.
At the top of the variable display page, click on 'Manage Collection Associations;
On the Collection Associations page, the collection already associated with this variable will be displayed:
- Click on 'Update Collection Association'. A Collection Association Search page will be displayed. Choose a Search Field from the pull-down selections, and enter a Search Term (value) for that Search Field. Note that wildcard searches are supported for some search fields. (The text below the search field will tell you if wildcard searches are supported for that field.)
5. A table of collections matching the collection search criteria will be displayed. Click on the checkbox beside the collection that you wish to associate with the variable, and click on Submit below the collection search results table. The selected collection will be associated with the variable.
6. A Collection Associations results page will be displayed, showing the collection association has been updated.
NOTE: Because the collection / variable association operation is asynchronous, the results page may be displayed before all association has completed. You may need to click on the 'refresh the page' link to see the final results of the collection association.
Manage Service Metadata for my provider
Required Permissions
To create, update, or delete service metadata records in the CMR, or to associate / disassociate services with collections, your login user id must be a member of a group with Provider Object Permissions which include Ingest Operations Read and Update.
See your provider Administrator if you are not sure whether your user id has the correct permissions for these operations. The provider Administrator should refer to the "Manage 'Provider Object Permissions' for a user group" section below to assign these permissions.
Create a service record in the CMR for my provider
1. On the 'Manage Services' dashboard,
click on 'Create New Record'. A draft service record will be created.
2. Begin filling in metadata fields for your draft service record. Use the information icons (blue 'i') to get information about what fields mean and how to format their values.
3. Navigate from form to form using the Previous or Next buttons, or by choosing the next form to edit from the pull-down list at 'Save & Jump To:'. You may work on forms in any order. When you move from one form to another, your input from the previous form will be saved in your draft record.
4. Explicitly Save form input (within a session or at the end of a session) with the 'Save' button; Finish editing your draft record using the 'Done' button.
NOTE: When you are working with a draft service record, all 'Save' and 'Done' operations update the draft record in the MMT database, not in the CMR, i.e., DRAFT records are not stored in the CMR. Your draft service record will not be ingested into the CMR until you click on the 'Publish Service Draft' button in step 7 below.
5. Follow progress of your draft record on the progress panel:
The icons on the progress panel have the following meanings:
6. View a HTML rendering of your service record on the 'preview panel':
7. When all Required fields are complete with no validation errors (red icon) showing on the progress panel, you are ready to Publish your record to the CMR.
Click on the 'Publish Service Draft' button above the Progress Panel on the draft record page:
8. You will see a green banner indicating that your service record has been successfully published to the CMR. You will also receive an email stating that your record has been published, and providing the 'concept id' (CMR identifier) for the published record. You may use that concept id to search for your record on the MMT.
Find and view service records in the CMR
Use the 'Search Services ' interface in the upper right corner of the MMT banner:
Find records based on a keyword
Enter a search term (e.g., Short Name, Entry Title, a CMR concept id, a service keyword) in the white 'Enter Search Term' box, and click on 'Search Services'. A table of CMR service records which match the search term will be presented (sorted by Name).
To view an html representation of the metadata for any service in the search results table, click on the Name of the service.
Find all service records for a provider
Select a provider from the 'Select a Provider' drop-down list, and then click on 'Search Services'. A table of all CMR service records for the selected provider will be presented (sorted by Name).
To view an html representation of the metadata for any service record in the search results table, click on the Name of the service in the search results table.
Update a service record in the CMR for my provider
- Find the service record using the instructions above (Find and view service records in the CMR), and click on the Name of the service in the search results table to view the service display page.
- At the top of the service display page, click on 'Edit Service Record'
3. A new draft of this record will be created in the MMT database. The MMT will display the progress panel (and html representation) for the draft record.
4. On the progress panel, click on any section to begin editing the draft record. Use the progress panel and navigation buttons described above (Create a service record in the CMR for my provider) to update the metadata in the draft record.
5. When you have finished editing the draft record, publish it to the CMR by clicking on the 'Publish Service Draft' button above the progress panel. This will create a new revision of the service record in the CMR. The CMR stores up to 10 revisions of each service record. When an 11th revision is created, the first revision is deleted, and so on. Each revision of a service record has the same concept id as the original service record.
Clone and edit a service record in the CMR for my provider
1. Find the service record using the instructions above (Find and View Service in the CMR), and click on the Name of the service to view the service page.
2. At the top of the service page, click on 'Clone Service Record'
3. A draft of a clone of this record will be created in the MMT database. The MMT will display the progress panel (and html representation) for the draft record (the clone).
Since service Names must be unique within a provider, the clone is initiated with a blank Name. The Entry Title of the clone will be initialized to '<entry title of the original record' - Cloned'. You may edit the record to change the default entry title of the clone.
NOTE: A prompt to enter a new Name and Long Name for the clone appears in the blue bar, and the progress panel indicates that the Name and Long Name have not yet been filled in.
4. On the progress panel, click on any section to begin editing the draft record (the clone). You must enter a new Name and Long Name for the clone. Use the progress panel and navigation buttons described above (Create a service record in the CMR for my provider) to update the metadata in the draft record.
5. When you have finished editing the draft record (the clone), publish it to the CMR by clicking on the Publish Service Draft button above the progress panel. The clone will be stored as a new service record in the CMR, with a different concept id from the original record.
Download JSON for a service record in the CMR
1. Find the service record using the instructions above (Find and View Service in the CMR), and click on the Name of the service to view the service page.
2. At the top of the service page, click on 'Download JSON'
3. Your browser and local machine will now prompt you through the download process, and a JSON version of the service record will be downloaded to your local machine.
Delete a service record in the CMR for my provider
- Find the service record using the instructions above (Find and View Services in the CMR), and click on the Name of the service to view the service page.
- At the top of the service page, click on 'Delete Service Record'
3. You will see a pop-up message asking you to confirm the service record deletion.
4. Click on Yes to delete the service record. The MMT will then display a 'Service Deleted Successfully!' message.
Revert to a previous revision of a service record in the CMR for my provider
1. Find the service record using the instructions above (Find and View Services in the CMR), and click on the Name of the service to view the service page.
2. At the top of the service page, click on 'Revisions (<number of revisions>)'
3. A table of the (up to) 10 most recent revisions of the service record will be displayed.
4. You may View previous revisions of the record by clicking on the 'View' link next to the Revision Description. After you determine which revision you want to revert to, click on 'Revert to this Revision' in the Actions column for that revision. You will see a pop-up message asking you to confirm the action:
5. Click on Yes to revert to the selected previous revision of the record. The MMT will then display a 'Revision Created Successfully!' message, as well as the new revision history for the record.
If there were no revisions before you reverted to a previous revision, there will now be n+1 revisions, and the n+1st revision will be identical to the previous revision to which you reverted.
Associate a Service with one or more Collections for my provider
- Find the service record using the instructions above (Find and view service records in the CMRFind the variable record using the instructions above (Find and view variable records in the CMR), and click on the Name of the variable the service in the search results table to view the variable display the service display page.
At the top of the variable display the service display page, click on 'Manage Collection Associations'.
3. On the Collection Associations page, all collections already associated with this service will be displayed in a table:
4 A variable can only be associated with a single collection. To add a new collection associationassociations, click on the 'Add Collection Associations' button.
If a collection is already associated with this variable, it will be displayed in the table.
4. 5. A Collection Association Search page will be displayed. Choose a Search Field from the pull-down selections, and enter a Search Term (value) for that Search Field. Note that wildcard searches are supported for some search fields. (The text below the search field will tell you if wildcard searches are supported for that field.)
6. A table of collections matching the collection search criteria will be displayed. Click will be displayed. Any collections in the search results that are already associated with the service will be present in the table but grayed out. Click on the checkbox beside the each collection that you wish to associate with the variablethe service (or click the checkbox in the table header to select all collections in the table), and click on Submit below the collection search results table. The All selected collection collections will be associated with the variableservice.
7. A Collection Associations results page will be displayed, showing the collection all collections now associated with the Variable. service. This includes any prior associations plus the associations just completed.
NOTE: Because the collection / variable service association operation is asynchronous, the results page may be displayed before all association has associations have completed. You may need to click on the 'refresh the page' link to see the final results of the collection association.
Disassociate a
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Service with one or more Collections for my provider
- Find the variable the service record using the instructions above (Find and view variable service records in the CMR), and click on the Name of the variable the service in the search results table to view the variable display the service display page.
At the top of the variable display the service display page, click on 'Manage Collection Associations';
On the Collection Associations page, the collection all collections already associated with this variable service will be displayed in a table:
- Click the checkbox beside the each collection whose association to this variable service you wish to delete (or click the checkbox at the top of the table to select all collections in the table).
- Click on 'Delete Selected Associations'.
- A Collection Association results page will be displayed, showing no collection is all collections still associated with the variableservice.
NOTE: Because the collection / variable service disassociation operation is asynchronous, the results page may be displayed before all disassociations have completed. You may need to click on the 'refresh the page' link to see the final results of the collection disassociation.
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Manage Tools Metadata for my provider
Required Permissions
To create, update, or delete service delete tool metadata records in the CMR, or to associate / disassociate services tools with collections, your login user id must be a member of a group with Provider Object Permissions which include Ingest Operations Read and Update.
See your provider Administrator if you are not sure whether your user id has the correct permissions for these operations. The provider Administrator should refer to the "Manage 'Provider Object Permissions' for a user group" section below to assign these permissions.
Create
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a tool record in the CMR for my provider
1. On the 'Manage ServicesTools' dashboard,
click on 'Create New Record'. A draft service draft tool record will be created.
2. Begin filling in metadata fields for your draft service draft tool record. Use the information icons (blue 'i') to get information about what fields mean and how to format their values.
3. Navigate from form to form using the Previous or Next buttons, or by choosing the next form to edit from the pull-down list at 'Save & Jump To:'. You may work on forms in any order. When you move from one form to another, your input from the previous form will be saved in your draft record.
4. Explicitly Save form input (within a session or at the end of a session) with the 'Save' button; Finish editing your draft record using the 'Done' button.
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NOTE: When you are working with a draft service draft tool record, all 'Save' and 'Done' operations update the draft record in the MMT database, not in the CMR, i.e., DRAFT records are not stored in the CMR. Your draft service draft tool record will not be ingested into the CMR until you click on the 'Publish Service Tool Draft' button in step 7 below.
5. Follow progress of your draft record on the progress panel:
The icons on the progress panel have the following meanings:
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6. View a HTML rendering of your service tool record on the 'preview panel':
7. When all Required fields are complete with no validation errors (red icon) showing on the progress panel, you are ready to Publish your record to the CMR.
Click on the 'Publish Service Tool Draft' button above the Progress Panel on the draft record page:
8. You will see a green banner indicating that your service tool record has been successfully published to the CMR. You will also receive an email stating that your record has been published, and providing the 'concept id' (CMR identifier) for the published record. You may use that concept id to search for your record on the MMT.
Find and
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view tool records in the CMR
Use the 'Search Services Tools ' interface in the upper right corner of the MMT banner:
Find records based on a keyword
Enter a search term (e.g., Short Name, Entry Title, a CMR concept id, a service tool keyword) . in the white 'Enter Search Term' box, and click on 'Search ServicesTools'. A table of CMR service tool records which match the search term will be presented (sorted by Name).
To view an html representation of the metadata for any service any tool in the search results table, click on the Name of the servicetool.
Find
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all tool records for a provider
Select a provider from the 'Select a Provider' drop-down list, and then click on 'Search ServicesTools'.
A table of all CMR service tool records for the selected provider will be presented (sorted by Name).
To view an html representation of the metadata for any service any tool record in the search results table, click on the Name of the service tool in the search results table.
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Update a tool record in the CMR for my provider
- Find the service the tool record using the instructions above (Find and view service tool records in the CMR), and click on the Name of the service the tool in the search results table to view the service the tool display page.
- At the top of the service the tool display page, click on 'Edit Service Tool Record'
3. A new draft of this record will be created in the MMT database. The MMT will display the progress panel (and html representation) for the draft record.
4. On the progress panel, click on any section to begin editing the draft record. Use the progress panel and navigation buttons described above (Create a service a tool record in the CMR for my provider) to update the metadata in the draft record.
5. When you have finished editing the draft record, publish it to the CMR by clicking on the 'Publish Service Tool Draft' button above the progress panel. This will create a new revision of the service the tool record in the CMR. The CMR stores up to 10 revisions of each service each tool record. When an 11th revision is created, the first revision is deleted, and so on. Each revision of a service a tool record has the same concept id as the original service original tool record.
Clone and edit
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a tool record in the CMR for my provider
1. Find the service the tool record using the instructions above (Find and View Service Tool in the CMR), and click on the Name of the service the tool to view the service the tool page.
2. At the top of the service the tool page, click on 'Clone Service Clone Tool Record'
3. A draft of a clone of this record will be created in the MMT database. The MMT will display the progress panel (and html representation) for the draft record (the clone).
Since service tool Names must be unique within a provider, the clone is initiated with a blank Name. The Entry Title of the clone will be initialized to '<entry title of the original record' - Cloned'. You may edit the record to change the default entry title of the clone.
NOTE: A prompt to enter a new Name and Long Name for the clone appears in the blue bar, and the progress panel indicates that the Name and Long Name have not yet been filled in.
4. On the progress panel, click on any section to begin editing the draft record (the clone). You must enter a new Name and Long Name for the clone. Use the progress panel and navigation buttons described above (Create a service a tool record in the CMR for my provider) to update the metadata in the draft record.
5. When you have finished editing the draft record (the clone), publish it to the CMR by clicking on the Publish Service Tool Draft button above the progress panel. The clone will be stored as a new service tool record in the CMR, with a different concept id from the original record.
Download JSON for
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a tool record in the CMR
1. Find the service the tool record using the instructions above (Find and View Service Tool in the CMR), and click on the Name of the service the tool to view the service the tool page.
2. At the top of the service the tool page, click on 'Download JSON'
3. Your browser and local machine will now prompt you through the download process, and a JSON version of the service tool record will be downloaded to your local machine.
Delete
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a tool record in the CMR for my provider
- Find the service the tool record using the instructions above (Find and View Services Tool in the CMR), and click on the Name of the service the tool to view the service the tool page.
- At the top of the service the tool page, click on 'Delete Service Tool Record'
3. You will see a pop-up message asking you to confirm the service tool record deletion.
4. Click on Yes to delete the service tool record. The MMT will then display a 'Service Tool Deleted Successfully!' message.
Revert to a previous revision of
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a tool record in the CMR for my provider
1. Find the service the tool record using the instructions above (Find and View Services Tool in the CMR), and click on the Name of the service the tool to view the service the tool page.
2. At the top of the service the tool page, click on 'Revisions (<number of revisions>)'
3. A table of the (up to) 10 most recent revisions of the service the tool record will be displayed.
4. You may View previous revisions of the record by clicking on the 'View' link next to the Revision Description. After you determine which revision you want to revert to, click on 'Revert to this Revision' in the Actions column for that revision. You will see a pop-up message asking you to confirm the action:
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If there were no revisions before you reverted to a previous revision, there will now be n+1 revisions, and the n+1st revision will be identical to the previous revision to which you reverted.
Associate a
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Tool with one or more Collections for my provider
- Find the service the tool record using the instructions above (Find and view service tool records in the CMR), and click on the Name of the service the tool in the search results table to view the service the tool display page.
At the top of the service the tool display page, click on 'Manage Collection Associations'.
3. On the Collection Associations page, all collections already associated with this service tool will be displayed in a table:
4. To add new collection associations, click on the 'Add Collection Associations' button.
5. A Collection Association Search page will be displayed. Choose a Search Field from the pull-down selections, and enter a Search Term (value) for that Search Field. Note that wildcard searches are supported for some search fields. (The text below the search field will tell you if wildcard searches are supported for that field.)
6. A table of collections matching the collection search criteria will be displayed. Any collections in the search results that are already associated with the service tool will be present in the table but grayed out. Click on the checkbox beside each collection that you wish to associate with the service tool (or click the checkbox in the table header to select all collections in the table), and click on Submit below the collection search results table. All selected collections will be associated with the servicetool.
7. A Collection Associations results page will be displayed, showing all collections now associated with the servicetool. This includes any prior associations plus the associations just completed.
NOTE: Because the collection / service tool association operation is asynchronous, the results page may be displayed before all associations have completed. You may need to click on the 'refresh the page' link to see the final results of the collection association.
Disassociate a
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Tool with one or more Collections for my provider
- Find the service the tool record using the instructions above (Find and view service tool records in the CMR), and click on the Name of the service the tool in the search results table to view the service the tool display page.
At the top of the service the tool display page, click on 'Manage Collection Associations';
On the Collection Associations page, all collections already associated with this service tool will be displayed in a table:
- Click the checkbox beside each collection whose association to this service tool you wish to delete (or click the checkbox at the top of the table to select all collections in the table).
- Click on 'Delete Selected Associations'.
- A Collection Association results page will be displayed, showing all collections still associated with the servicetool.
NOTE: Because the collection / service tool disassociation operation is asynchronous, the results page may be displayed before all disassociations have completed. You may need to click on the 'refresh the page' link to see the final results of the collection disassociation.
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2. A table of groups that you are permitted to see will be displayed. You may filter that table by Provider
Current / Available Providers and/or by User (group member)
Click on 'Apply Filters' to filter the table.
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4. The Group information page will be displayed. The page shows the group name, group description, all Collection Permissions associated with the group (see next section of this User's Guide for a discussion of Collection Permissions), a link to the Provider Object Permissions associated with the group, and a table of group members.
5. You may Edit or Delete the group from the group display page using the Edit or Delete buttons at the bottom of the page,
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- On the 'Manage CMR' dashboard, under 'Permissions & Groups', click on 'Groups'
2. A A table of groups that you are permitted to see will be displayed. You may filter that table by Provider
Current / Available Providers and/or by User (group member)
Click on 'Apply Filters' to filter the table.
3. From the resulting table of groups, select the group you wish to update by clicking on the 'Edit' Action in the row with the group name, OR you may click on the Group Name itself and use the Edit button on the group display page described in the previous section.
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- On the 'Manage CMR' dashboard, under 'Permissions & Groups', click on 'Groups'
2. A A table of groups that you are permitted to see will be displayed. You may filter that table by Provider
Current / Available Providers and/or by User (group member)
Click on 'Apply Filters' to filter the table.
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4. Click on the Submit button at the bottom of the Edit page to save the changes to the Collection Permission.
Manage 'Provider Object Permissions' for a user group
NOTE: You must have Administrator privileges for your provider to perform this operation.
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3. Click on the Name of a group in the table to edit the Provider Object Permissions for that group. A table of Provider Objects for that group, with Create, Read, Update, and Delete permissions, will be displayed. Check all appropriate boxes in the table and then click the 'Submit' button at the bottom of the page to save the changes.
Manage 'System Object Permissions' for a user group
NOTE: You must have System Administrator privileges to perform this operation.
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Manage Subscriptions for my provider
Required Permissions
To create, update, delete or view subscriptions, your username must be a member of a group with Provider Object Permissions which include Subscription Management.
See your provider Administrator if you are not sure whether your username has the correct permissions for these operations. The provider Administrator should refer to the Manage 'Provider Object Permissions' for a user group section below to assign these permissions.
Create a Subscription
- On the 'Manage CMR' dashboard, under 'Subscriptions', click on 'Create a Subscription'.
- On the Subscriptions page, enter a Name for your Subscription, the Collection Concept ID, Query parameters and name of the Subscriber. Click on Submit.
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3. The MMT will display the Subscription display page, with a green banner indicating that the Subscription was created successfully (or a pink banner indicating a failure creating the Subscription).
Update a Subscription
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2. The MMT will display a table of Subscriptions for your provider.
3. Select the Subscription you wish to update and click on the Edit action for that Subscription. (or you may click on the Name of the Subscription, and then click on the Edit button on the display page for that Subscription).
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2. The MMT will display a table of Subscriptions for your provider.
3. Select the Subscription you wish to update and click on the Delete action for that Subscription. (or you may click on the Name of the Subscription, and then click on the Delete button on the display page for that Subscription).
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2. The MMT will display a table of Subscriptions for your provider.
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