If you want to look at how your data in the catalog is structured and wish to explore data by asset type, then you can browse business and technical assets such as Glossary, Policy, System, Process, and Data Catalog from the Browse page. When you browse an asset, you can easily drill down to see child assets that are associated with the asset.
To browse assets by asset type, go to the Browse page.
On the preview pane, you can view more details about any asset without opening that asset. If you select an asset row, the Overview tab shows basic attributes of the selected asset and the Related Assets tab displays the type of relationship that the asset has with other assets. To open an asset in a new page, click on any related asset or the selected asset in the row.
The following image shows the Browse page with the Glossary tab selected.
For certain tabs on the Browse page, you can select an asset type from the header. For example, if you select Glossary, you can select from business terms, metric, domain, and subdomain assets listed on the page.
The following image shows the search for the glossary asset types:
Tabs also have asset specific filters that you can apply to the search results. For example, on the Process tab, you can add a process-type filter to refine the search results.
The following image shows the filter for the process asset types:
Under each tab, go to the Settings icon to show or hide asset-specific columns like custom attributes. For every tab, the type of columns differ. For example, the Data Element Classifications column is available only for technical assets and shows accepted data classifications. You can rearrange these columns, and sort the search results based on name or when it was last updated.
The following image shows asset-specific columns:
You can configure the tabs that you want to display on the Browse page. To do this, click the Tab Settings option in the Action menu. In the Tab Settings dialog box, you can select tabs that you want to display and specify their order.
If the asset listed on the Browse page 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 as child assets. 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 top-level and child-level assets
On the Browse page, you can find top-level assets by their names. The following image shows the top and child level assets. Type Accounts in the Find search box to search for all parent-level assets with the name Accounts. However, if you type child-level assets in this Find box, no results will be displayed.
If you want to find child assets, click the search icon that appears in the row of a parent asset. For a parent asset with its child assets, the number of the child assets for this parent asset is displayed along with the parent asset name.
The following image displays how you can find the child assets among the parent asset.
