In order for your services to be available to users of the Discovery Registry, they must be approved for promotion from the Publication Registry. Because the same approval process is used to remove data that you own from the Discover Registry, we describe both promotion and demotion of services here.
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To promote a service, its parent provider must already exist on the Discovery Registry, or be scheduled for promotion. |
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Once you have an interface you are satisfied with, you can request promotion as follows:
Log on to the Publishing registry.
On the Catalog tab, select the Interfaces link.
On the main window, select the link labeled My Interfaces.
On the panel labeled List of my interfaces, check the box next to the name of the interface you want to promote to the Discovery registry or delete from the Discovery registry.
From the drop down list labeled Select an Action, select the appropriate action (Promote or Delete), and click the button labeled Go. This returns the first Add to Approval Request screen. If the Go button is not visible, use the horizontal scroll bar to show content on the right side of the screen.
On this Add to Approval Request screen:
All structures belonging to the parent provider of the structure you want to promote are shown. Delete any entities you do not want to promote from this list by clicking the Delete icon ( 
) next to the entity.
Choose Request Promotion to Discovery Registry or Request Demotion from Discovery Registry from the drop down list in the column labeled Action for the interface you want to address.
Click either Add to new approval request or Add to an existing approval request.
If you are creating a new approval request, the next screen asks for a name and a description of the request. The name is required. Once you have entered this information, click the button labeled Create new request. This returns a list of unsubmitted requests.
To submit the request, check the box next to the name of the request and click the Submit icon ( 
). This returns the Submit Approval Request screen.
If you are adding to an existing request, the next screen displays a list named Unsubmitted Approval Requests. Select the radio button next to the request to which you would like to add the new structures, and click the button labeled Add Entities to Selected Request.
This returns the Submit Approval Request screen.
On the Submit Approval Request screen, review your request, enter a message for the approver (if you desire), and click the button labeled Submit request for approval.
The approval contact will be alerted to your request, and upon review will either reject or approve it.