If some business assets are no longer of active interest to the organization, you can manually change the lifecycle status of such business assets to Obsolete. You can use these assets to generate reports for audits. You can make the lifecycle status of an asset to Obsolete only when the asset is in Published lifecycle status and not in Draft or In Review lifecycle status.
When the lifecycle status of an asset changes from Published to Obsolete, the existing recommended glossary associations are deleted.
You can take the following actions on obsolete assets if your organization administrator has granted you the Update permission on the asset through access policies in Metadata Command Center:
•View and change the description of the obsolete asset.
•Delete an existing relationship of the obsolete asset.
•Update the stakeholders for the obsolete asset.
•Add comments to the obsolete assets.
If your organization administrator grants you the Manage Access permission on the asset, you can assign a stakeholder for the asset and modify the asset groups for the asset.
However, you cannot take the following actions on obsolete assets:
•Add a new relationship to the obsolete asset.
•Create tickets for obsolete assets.
•Update the lifecycle status of data quality rule occurrences and data quality rule templates to Obsolete.
•Add new data elements to a data set.
Changing between Published and Obsolete lifecycle status
You can change between Published and Obsolete lifecycle status for business assets only.
To change the lifecycle value of a business asset from Published to Obsolete, perform the following steps:
1Open the business asset.
2Click the Action menu.
3Click Change to Obsolete Lifecycle.
4In the Change Lifecycle Status dialog box, click OK.
To change the lifecycle value of a business asset from Obsolete to Published, perform the following steps:
1Open the business asset.
2Click the Action menu.
3Click Change to Published Lifecycle.
4In the Change Lifecycle Status dialog box, click OK.
