CMS user interface

Datahub provides a web-based user interface where parties can maintain party data and delegations between parties, as well as the settings for the usage of the event interface. Parties can also, depending on their rights to data, use the CMS interface to browse market process data in Datahub.

The Datahub parties’ user interface has two different types of user groups. One user group consists of parties who primarily use the event interface from their own systems when exchanging market-process-related information. Such users do not generally use the CMS user interface for maintaining market-process-related data, since this is handled using the event interface. An update to these data must come via the event interface to ensure data conformity between actors’ systems and Datahub. In this case, the user interface is mostly used to manage market-process imbalance settlement structural data and information for which market messages have not been considered necessary. Some less usual market processes may also be managed in the user interface, such as a previous supplier’s approval of a change of supplier when errors are corrected retroactively. These particular market processes are described in the section Datahub events and business processes. The administrator of a party like this may assign a user in their own system a user role which allows the delegated user to maintain these processes directly in the Datahub CMS user interface. However, in that case the party must ensure that the same data reported to Datahub can be saved in the party’s own system without triggering a new notification to Datahub. In other words, in such a case the party itself is responsible for the conformity of data in Datahub and the party’s own system.

The second group of CMS user interface users consists of market parties for whom, either due to a low number of process runs or some other reason, building an event interface for market-process information exchange is not cost-effective. These market parties are given the opportunity to manually run all market process information processing in the CMS user interface. Market processes run via the CMS user interface are governed by all the same rules and data correctness validations as the actual message processes performed via the event interface. However, note that this opportunity is not suitable for processing large data volumes. For this reason, metering data or invoice row data cannot be reported through the CMS user interface. Metering, imbalance settlement, and invoice row data reported in the system are not transferred in dedicated message form to the CMS user interface, either. The party using the user interface to run market processes may order transfer of these data to itself from the system via the event interface.

Request events can be used both via the event interface and directly from the CMS user interface. For example, metering data may be requested both via the event interface and the user interface. Metering data requested from the user interface are returned as a .csv control report.

Management of the parties’ users is based on a model in which parties have one or more administrators who can assign credentials to other users in their organizations. Users can be assigned either viewing and editing (read/write) credentials or merely viewing credentials. In Datahub, parties can also assign credentials that only permit certain users in the organization to view personal data. The Datahub Service Portal contains user management instructions.

The parties can use the CMS user interface to review information on delegations between parties and manage authorizations between parties. Delegations and parties’ authorizations are described in the section Delegations and authorizations between parties.