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Meagan,

It is indeed possible for Self-Service administrators to create bookmarks on the timeline of the Self-Service Template, which in your case might be based on the underlying dSource?

For example, in Delphix field services, we have automated the creation of shared bookmarks matching the snapshots on the underlying dSource, visible on the Self-Service template, using a Post-Sync hook on the dSource.?? This automation permits Self-Service data users to refresh to, restore to, or branch to those bookmarks on the template, from within their containers (a.k.a. data pods).

Likewise, a Self-Service administrator can also "manually" create shared bookmarks on the template timeline from the Self-Service portal, and of course we can use the Delphix REST API or CLI to automate other ad-hoc or scheduled functionality.

Does this help?

Please let me know if you have any additional questions?

Thanks!

Meagan,

Just to verify...

So, while logged into the Self-Service portal as a Delphix Admin account, you are first viewing the Self-Service container or datapod (in this example named VPDBX1)... At the top of the screen to the left, you have a trail of breadcrumbs starting with the label Data Operations.?? From left to right, the breadcrumbs are Self-Service Template, then Self-Service container/datapod, then Self-Service branch within container/datapod.?? In this example, from left to right...

• Self-Service Template is named "PDBX1 dSource"
• Self-Service Container/datapod is named "VPDBX1 container"
• Self-Service branch within container is named "default"

Please click on the link within the template name in the breadcrumbs, and you will navigate to the Data Operations page for the template... Now that you are viewing the timeline of the template, click on a point in the timeline (in the middle of the screen) to highlight that point-in-time... Now you can click on the active Bookmark button at the top, or click on the smaller Bookmark icon in the dialog box near the timeline to add the bookmark...
...and now you will have a Self-Service shared bookmark within the timeflow of the Self-Service Template based on the dSource.

Please let me know if that helps?

Thanks!