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.
The following image shows the Browse page with the Glossary tab selected.
On the Browse page, you can select an asset type from the header. For example, if you select Glossary, you will see the list of business terms, metric, domain, and subdomain assets listed on the page. If you want to see more details about any asset without opening that asset, select the asset row and click the Show Details icon. This opens the preview pane that displays the Overview tab with basic attributes of the selected asset, and the Related Assets tab that displays the type of relationship that the asset has with other assets. You can click any related asset or the selected asset itself to open that asset in a new page.
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.
Search from the Glossary tab
You can search for the following asset types from the Glossary tab of the Browse page:
•Business Term
•Domain
•Metric
•Subdomain
The following image shows the search for the glossary asset types:
Search from the Data Catalog tab
You can search for catalog source types from the Data Catalog tab of the Browse page. The following image shows the search for the catalog source types:
