Accessing Context Menu Service features

To access Context Menu Service features from within Dashboard Application Services Hub, you must be assigned the Monitor role in Dashboard Application Services Hub.

About this task

The Context Menu Service, a component of Dashboard Application Services Hub, facilitates launch-in-context capability between products. This capability enables one application to invoke a function or launch a user interface that is provided by another application while also passing data that the function or user interface can immediately process. To access Context Menu Service features, for example, CMS command line functions, you must be assigned the Monitor role in Dashboard Application Services Hub.

To assign the Monitor role to a user in Dashboard Application Services Hub:

Procedure

You can assign roles to users in the console or by using the consolecli command:

To assign the Monitor role to a user in the console, from the navigation pane, click Users and Groups > User Roles. Search for the user, assign the Monitor role and save your changes.
To assign the Monitor role to a user using the consolecli command, at the command line change to DASH_HOME/bin and enter the following command:
- consolecli.sh MapUsersToRole --username console_username --password console_user_password --roleName monitor --usersList user_ID
- consolecli.bat MapUsersToRole --username console_username --password console_user_password --roleName monitor --usersList user_ID