Managing products

SEAD administrators instruction guide

How to create, delete and edit products. How to link/unlink products and projects

Released
13/05/2024

Viewing available products

To view products available for linking to Projects in SEAD, you will need to open the Products page by clicking on the ‘Products’ tab from the side navigation panel on your left.

products tab

Fig. 1. Products tab

On the Products page you can view a list of products available for linking (refer to Linking Products to Projects). You can adjust the filters (circled blue) to search a specific product based on various criteria. You can also download a CSV report of all products by clicking Export (circled red).

products page

Fig. 2. Products page

Creating products

To create a new product shell in order to link data to projects, you will need to open the Products page by clicking on the ‘Products’ tab from the side navigation panel on your left. 

To create a new product shell, click on the green 'NEW PRODUCT’ button at the top of the screen. 

new product button

Fig. 1. Create a new product button

This will take you to the New Product page. Fill in the required information including any necessary tags, for the product shell you wish to create (in order to link data to) in the spaces indicated. Be aware that the short name for your product may only contain lower case characters, hyphens and numbers. Hyphens cannot be at the start or end of the name, or adjacent to another hyphen. Once complete, click Submit. This will prompt a confirmation with a pop up, and a green confirmation message at the top right of the previous screen once confirmed this can take a few moments – the completed action will also appear in the action log.

NOTE: This step will not make any data available yet, you will still need to link the created product to a project and add the data through Azure Storage Explorer to this data product shell, refer to ’Linking Products to Projects’ for how to do this.

new product page

Fig. 2. New Product page, required fields and submit button

Deleting products

To delete a product, locate the product from the Products page then click the Actions icon (three dots) along the same row as the product you are wanting to remove and select 'Delete'. 

Delete products

Fig. 1. Delete product action button

You will be asked to confirm the action. If deleting the product shell is your intention, proceed by clicking ‘Yes’ on the following window.

delete product confirmation

Fig. 2. Confirmation message

Editing products

To edit a product, locate the product from the Products page then click the Actions icon (three dots) on the same row as the product you are wanting to edit and select 'Edit'. 

Edit products

Fig. 1. Edit product action button

This will redirect you to the Update Product page. You cannot change the product short name or long name, only the associated tags. Once you have made your updates, click ‘Submit’. 

product update page

Fig. 2. Product update page

You will be asked to confirm the action, proceed by clicking ‘Yes’. 

update product confirmation

Fig. 3. Confirmation message

Unlocking a product

If a user has a file open while an administrator is attempting to modify or delete the product, they will receive an error advising that the product is locked by a user. Administrators can unlock a product which means to force remove any file handles on the files within the product. 

To unlock a product, click the Actions icon along the same row as the product you are wanting to unlock and select 'Release file share locks'

release file share locks action

Fig. 1. Release file share locks action button

This will present the following confirmation window. Be sure to warn the user ahead of unlocking the product as this will close their session. Once you are ready to proceed, click ‘Yes’. 

lock product confirmation

Fig. 2. Confirmation message

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