If you want to look at how your data in the catalog is structured and want to explore data by asset type, you can explore assets on the Browse page. When you view an asset, you can easily drill down to see child assets that are associated with the asset.
Browse interface
The following image shows the interface of the Browse page:
1Asset type tabs. You can browse assets by asset type using the tabs on the Browse page. On some asset type tabs, you can further select specific asset types from the header. For example, on the Glossary tab, you can select from Business Terms, Metric, Domain, or Subdomain assets to view on the page.
2Tab Settings. You can select the Tab Settings option from the Action menu to select the asset type tabs that you want to hide or display on the Browse page. You can also specify the order in which you want the tabs to appear.
3Settings. Use the Settings icon within each tab to show or hide asset-specific columns that apply only to that asset type. For example, the Data Element Classifications column is available only for technical assets and shows accepted data classifications.
You can also save or reset your layout preferences.
4Preview pane. The preview pane lets you view key details of a selected asset without opening that asset. This pane consists of the Overview tab and the Related Assets tab. The Overview tab shows basic attributes of the selected asset and the Related Assets tab displays the type of relationships that the asset has with other assets. To open an asset in a new page, click the asset.
Filter and sort assets
In each asset type tab, you can apply filters or sort columns. Sort the columns based on their name or when it was last updated.
Tabs also have asset-specific filters that you can apply to narrow down the list of assets. For example, on the Process tab, you can add a process type filter to view processes that belong only to the specifc process type.
The following image shows the filter for the process asset types:
Top-level and child-level assets
If an asset has child assets associated with it, an arrow appears next to the name of the asset. Click the arrow to expand that asset and see the associated child assets. You can also create child-level assets for business assets depending on the selected asset type. To create child-level assets for a business asset, select the asset row and click the Action menu on the selected row. The options that you see on the Action menu are contextual to the selected asset type. To see the allowed child-level assets that you can create for each business asset type, see Parent-child relationships.
For example, the following image shows the expanded system asset called Amazon Aurora, which contains three data sets Customer New Records, Google Cloud Spanner, and NVARCHAR. The data set Customer New Records can be further expanded to view the data elements within it. The Action menu for the parent system asset shows options for creating a child-level system or a data set. This is because a system asset can have only a system or a data set as a child asset.
Find assets while browsing
The Find bar in every asset type tab enables you to find assets within that tab. In some asset type tabs, you can apply filters on the Find bar to view assets at different levels. To view all the assets in the tab, apply the All Assets filter. To view only the top-level assets, apply the Top-Level Assets filter.
The following image shows the filters menu for Find available on some tabs:
When you use the Find bar to search for assets, Data Governance and Catalog displays only the first 25 assets that match your query. To view more assets, click View More Assets.
If you want to find the child assets of a specific asset, use the Find bar that appears when you hover over the top-level asset. For an asset with child assets, you can view the number of child assets next to the top-level asset name.
The following image displays how you can find the child assets of a top-level asset:
