Manage the Marketplace

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Marketplace owners are responsible for configuring and governing the Marketplace so that data products are curated, compliant, and discoverable. This topic explains how to maintain the Marketplace, manage product listings, and assign Marketplace roles to other users.

Note

On how to initially set the Marketplace, including a description of the properties in its YAML definition, see Set Up Data Products Marketplace.

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Edit the Marketplace

To update the Marketplace’s visibility, title, description and other properties:

  1. In the left-side navigation, click the Data Products App icon. Expand the navigation panel if it’s collapsed.

  2. Select Manage Marketplace to open the Marketplace settings page.

  3. Click Edit Marketplace on top right of the page. The editor opens on the Preview tab.

  4. Click Edit YAML to switch to the editor and make your changes.

  5. Click Save.

Monitor Marketplace Activity

To track how users are interacting with your Marketplace, you can download a CSV file containing usage data.

  1. In the left-side navigation, click the Data Products App icon. Expand the navigation panel if it’s collapsed.

  2. Select Manage Marketplace to open the Marketplace settings page.

  3. Open the Activity & Insights tab.

  4. Click the download link to download the CSV file.

  5. Open the file in a spreadsheet application of your choice to analyze usage.

The CSV file includes such usage data as product views, access requests, and search terms with no results.

Assign Marketplace Roles

You can manage who can publish, maintain, or administer the Marketplace. To access, you must have the appropriate role within the Data Products App. See Configure Access in the Data Product App for information about configuring access to the the Marketplace.

Delete the Marketplace

You can’t delete the Marketplace through the user interface, but you can do so using the Marketplace API.