Namespaces

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What is a Namespace?

A namespace acts as a logical partition for your Sentinel EMS workspace, enabling you to maintain separate “storage locations” for each of your product lines. This enables you to group products and features together. For example, you may want to use namespaces to group catalog entities and manage permissions. Namespaces are for your internal use and are not exposed to end users.

A product can include only the features defined in that product’s namespace. If you want to add a feature from another namespace, you must create that feature in the relevant namespace.

Entitlements transcend namespaces and can contain products from one or more namespaces. This means that all of the products across namespaces are available to an order taker (having permission to view, add, edit, and delete entitlements) while creating entitlements.

A namespace is not exposed to end users and is mainly used to group catalog entities and manage permissions.

Prerequisites for Creating a Namespace

The prerequisite to creating a namespace is that the user must have administrative rights.

Creating a Namespace

From the sidebar, select Catalog > Namespaces to view the Namespaces page that displays the existing namespaces.

The Add Namespace button on the Namespaces page is used to create a namespace. The page to create namespaces is given below:

The following table explains the namespace attributes:

Attributes	Description	Required/Optional	Valid Values
Name	Name of the namespace. The validity of the namespace name is enforcement-specific. This means that the validity of the namespace name depends on the enforcement in use.	Required	>Must be unique >Alphanumeric >1 to 500 characters
Ref ID 1	Reference identifier that identifies the namespace in an external system.	Optional	>Alphanumeric >0 to 100 characters
Ref ID 2	Reference identifier that identifies the namespace in an external system.	Optional	>Alphanumeric >0 to 100 characters
Description	Additional information about the namespace.	Optional	>Alphanumeric >0 to 500 characters

Once a namespace is added, you can specify permissions for different users on that namespace. For more information, see Users and Roles.

Actions for Namespaces

The following table lists the actions available for namespaces:

Action

Description

Edit

Updates existing namespace information. See Editing an Entity to understand how to edit an entity.

Note: All attributes can be modified irrespective of the deployment status of a namespace. A namespace is said to be deployed when it has been used in an entitlement.

Delete

Deletes namespace. See Deleting an Entity to understand how to delete a namespace.

Note:

>The Delete action is not available for deployed namespaces.

>Deleting a namespace, which is not used in an entitlement will delete all associated features and products on user confirmation.