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Working with generated classifications

Use CLAIRE to automatically generate data classifications for the data elements extracted from the source system. CLAIRE can identify, analyze, and classify the data contained in the data elements without any human input.

If you enable the Generated Data Classification option in Metadata Command Center while configuring a catalog source, CLAIRE identifies and automatically generates data classifications for the data elements of that catalog source. On the technical asset page for data elements belonging to the catalog source, you can view the generated classifications.

You can view generated classifications only if your organization administrator has granted you the Read permission on data classification assets through access policies in Metadata Command Center.

You can promote, reject, or demote a generated classification. The following image shows the lifecycle of a generated classification:

Image depicting the generated classification process workflow.

Promoting a generated classification

You can promote a selected generated classification to a data element classification so that it can be associated automatically with the columns in a data element. Promotion means associating generated classifications to data element classifications and also to data elements associated with generated classifications.

You can promote generated classifications only if your organization has granted you the following permissions and privileges:

•Read, Create, and Update permissions on data classification assets through access policies in Metadata Command Center
•Update permission on technical assets associated with generated classifications, granted through access policies in Metadata Command Center
•Manage Data Classifications privilege for the Metadata Command Center service in Administrator

To promote a generated classification, perform the following steps:

1On the generated classification page, click Promote on the top right corner or click Promote Generated Classification option in the Promotion section to associate the generated classification with the data element classification.

2To promote a generated classification to associate an existing data element classification, select the data element classification from the existing list and enter the following information:

Field	Description
Data Element Classification	Name of the data element classification.
Sensitivity	Sensitivity of the data element classification.
Description	Description of the data element classification.

3To promote a generated classification to associate with a newly created data element classification, enter the details about the new data element classification that you want to create:

Field	Description
Name	Name of the new data element classification.
Description	Description of the new data element classification.
Sensitivity	Sensitivity of the new data element classification.

4Click Promote. A generated classification promotion job is triggered.

5Click View Status to view the progress of the promotion job or go to the Job Monitoring page to see the job status. After a promotion job is complete, you can view the data element classification that is associated with the generated classification on the generated classification asset page.

Note: You cannot promote or reject the generated classification while the promotion job is in progress.

Rejecting a generated classification

To remove the generated classification from the system, you can reject a generated classification. To reject a generated classification, ensure that your organization administrator enables the Curate Data Classifications privilege for Data Governance and Catalog and Manage Data Classifications privilege for Metadata Command Center.

You can reject generated classifications only if your organization has granted you the following permissions and privileges:

•Read, Update and Delete permissions on data classification assets through access policies in Metadata Command Center
•Update permission on technical assets associated with generated classifications, granted through access policies in Metadata Command Center

On the generated classification page, click Reject on the top right corner to remove the generated classification. The generated classification is no longer discoverable in the catalog.

Image depicting the rejection of a generated classification.

Rejecting associations from a generated classification

You can also reject a maximum of 25 associations from a generated classification at a time in any one of the following ways:

1Select the associations you want to reject. Click Reject from the selection list. You can reject multiple associations.

2Select the association you want to reject. Clear the selected associations from the Generated Classifications section on the asset page. You can only remove one selected association.

Note: You can remove the associations even after the generated classification is promoted.

Demoting a generated classification

To remove the association of the generated classification with the data element classification, you can demote a generated classification.

You can demote generated classifications only if your organization has granted you the following permissions and privileges:

•Read, Update and Delete permissions on data classification assets through access policies in Metadata Command Center
•Update permission on technical assets associated with generated classifications, granted through access policies in Metadata Command Center
•Manage Data Classifications privilege for the Metadata Command Center service in Administrator

You can run a demotion job only after the promotion job of the generated classification is complete. A demotion job is triggered when you remove the association of the data element classification with the generated classification.

1 View the promoted generated classification in the generated classification asset page.

2Clear the data element classification to remove the association of the generated classification with the data element classification. When you clear the entry, the classification is no longer promoted.

Note: When you clear the created classification, the classification is discoverable, but it is no longer promoted as the mentioned classification.

Image depicting demotion of a generated classification.

Example of promoting, demoting and rejecting a generated classification

Let us assume you are a user who wants to promote a generated classification. In this example, if City is the generated classification for columns C1, C3, C4, and C6 in a table and you promote this generated classification as USA City, then the columns C1, C3, C4, and C6 have the values as USA City. If you run a generated classification job and want to add columns C7 and C9 to the same table later, you can promote these columns as USA City.

When you want to add newer columns, C10 and C11 to the table and do not want to promote the new columns as USA City, you can demote the generated classification. After you demote the USA city classification, the columns C10 and C11 no longer have the values as USA City. You can again promote these new columns with a new generated classification. However, the columns C1, C3, C4, C6, C7, and C9 still have generated classification values as USA City.

If you do not want the generated classification to be found in the system, you can reject it. In this situation, none of the columns remain associated with the generated classification that is rejected.