With Data Product Hub, you can browse and subscribe to data products for your business needs. You can view your subscriptions on My subscriptions.
Placing a data product subscription
- Required roles to complete this task
- Collaborator roles: Viewer, Editor, or Admin
From the Data Product Hub home page, you can discover data products published by your community or search for specific data products. When you are ready to subscribe, you can click Subscribe from the data product tile. If you need more information to help you decide, click the product tile and view the product details.
When you subscribe to a data product, you must indicate your preferred delivery method for each item in the data product and agree to the data contract. After your subscription request is completed, you can access each item using the delivery method.
The following image outlines an end-to-end flow that a consumer follows to discover, subscribe, and receive a data product.
Reviewing the data product contents
You can review the product details of a data product to determine whether a data product supports your business needs.
Click the data product tile to review the following product details:
- Domain and publisher:
- The business domain that was assigned by the publisher.
- The publisher's name, the version number, and the published date.
- Data product contents:
- Provides a brief description of the item and its origin.
- Recommended usage:
- Provides a description for an example application of the data product.
- Data contract:
- Provides the terms and conditions for using the data product, which can be obtained either from a URL or from an uploaded PDF file.
Subscribing to a data product
After reviewing the product details, complete the following steps to complete your subscription request:
- From the data product contents page, click Subscribe to open the Subscriptions details pane.
- Choose the delivery method for each item in the data product.
- Agree to the terms and conditions listed by the data contract.
- Optional: Provide a brief description of your intended use of the data product, the business needs you want to address, and the outcome you hope to achieve.
Accessing a data product
Data products are accessed differently depending upon the delivery method. You can check a data product's delivery status in your My subscriptions page. To ensure that all subscriptions reflect the latest updates, click the
Refresh status icon 
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The download links expire after 7 days. If your download link expires before you access your data product, you can refresh the subscription to receive a new link.
To access the data product:
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Open the My Subscriptions page and locate your data product.
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Access your data product according to the delivery method used:
- For Download, download your data product from a connection to your local directory.
- For Open URL, access your data product by using the provided link. For some data products, you can view the content in the subscription window. Otherwise, you can view the content in a new browser tab.
- For Data extract, download your data product as a file extract from a target connection.
- For Live access with Flight service, run the provided code snippet to retrieve your data product.
For more details about the available delivery methods, see
Viewing your subscriptions
You can view the following details of your subscriptions on the My subscriptions page:
- The subscription number
- The data product name, description, and version number
- The subscription date and subscription status
- A list of the items in the data product with links to access each item
Consumers can view only their own subscriptions on My subscriptions.