In this video, we will look at creating a Community in AVEVA™ Data Hub
and the process for adding an external tenant to the community.
This allows you to share a selection of your data with an external third party.
Relevant learning resources are also included at the end of the video.
As prerequisites for this work, you will need administrator access
in AVEVA™ Data Hub.
As a reminder, administrators in AVEVA Connect are assigned tenant admin access -
in AVEVA™ Data Hub, during Data Hub activation.
You will have completed service activation activities and
set up your Data Hub service, user access and data transfers.
You will be ready to share a selection of your data with an external party
by adding a new tenant, using the Community function.
You will have contacted the third party, who you are sharing data with, and they will have
their own AVEVA™ Data Hub service set up in place.
As an administrator for 'Company A', you might need to share access...
to the data in your tenant, with an external party.
Company B needs secure access provided to them,
so they can also access the data and add additional value to it.
Company B are not copying the data, they are accessing it centrally, as additional users.
The Community function in AVEVA™ Data Hub helps you to efficiently manage this access.
Let's look at the steps to create a community and add an external tenant,
to allow the data to be shared.
As an administrator at Company A, let's start by creating a community in AVEVA™ Data Hub,
so you can provide access to the external party.
Start by opening AVEVA™ Data Hub from AVEVA Connect.
Select 'Data Management' and then 'Communities' from the menu.
Select the 'Add Community' button.
Give your Community a suitable name, in the Name field.
Select 'Next' to continue.
Review the roles that will be used for administration, then select 'Next'.
Select 'Add Members' to choose Connect user groups, for your organisation's access.
Select 'Create' to finish.
Your new community is now displayed.
Next, let's add selected data streams to the community.
Select 'Data management' and 'Sequential Data Store' from the menu.
Begin selecting the required streams that you wish to share with 'Company B'.
When selecting, check the number of streams selected is incrementing as expected,
to ensure you have not missed any required streams.
When you have finished selecting streams, check the final selected number and then
select 'Share Streams' in the right-hand panel.
Next, select the specific communities that will contain the required streams.
Complete this process by selecting 'Share'.
The notifier confirms this activity was successfull.
Return to the Communities area, to view the update.
Next, let's review the process for inviting an external tenant to your Community.
Open 'Data Management' and select 'Communities' from the side menu.
Select the relevant community that your tenant will join.
Select 'Community Details'.
Select 'Invite Tenant'.
Enter the email of the tenant administrator that is being invited.
Select 'Invite' to send the email invitation.
On the Invitations tab, the invited tenant status is now 'Invitation Pending'...
Further actions must be taken, by the invited external party and the administrator,
to complete this process.
Next, let's look at the steps that are needed by the external party (in Company 'B')
to accept the invitation.
The external tenant will receive a link by email.
They can accept the invitation to your community, by selecting 'Join', as shown.
Finally, let's review the steps an administrator in Company A must take
to complete the invitation process and confirm the access for the new external tenant.
The tenant's invitation status is now 'Pending Confirmation', after their acceptance.
The administrator must complete the process,
in 'Data Management' - in the 'Invitations' tab.
Select the user that requires confirmation.
Carefully review the details of the tenant access invitation.
Confirm the access to this community, with a two step confirmation.
The tenant invitation process is now complete.
Following the completion of the invitation process, the external party (Company B)...
can now access the shared data.
By opening the Visualization function and selecting 'Trend'...
...the data streams in the community can now be accessed.
For additional resources for setting up AVEVA™ Data Hub, visit
- 'docs.aveva.com/category/adh-get-started'
Select 'Get started with AVEVA Data Hub'...
Navigate to Data Management and Communities for additional guidance.
This concludes the video for using the community function in AVEVA™ Data Hub.