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Enable Business Term Association

Configure the Business Term Association settings for a resource to automatically associate or recommend the business terms as a business title for tables, columns, views, files, and field assets.
If you choose the Metadata Load Settings > Business Term Association > Enable Business Term Association option to configure business term propagation, you need not configure the Run Similarity Profile option for a resource to automatically accept or recommend the business term for columns or field assets. Configure the Run Similarity Profile and Enable Business Term Association options for a resource if you want to improve the confidence score of the business term propagation.
Enterprise Data Catalog supports the Enable Business Term Association option for the following resources:
Note: After you configure the business term association settings, run the DataDomainPropagation system resource if you want to view business term recommendations immediately in Enterprise Data Catalog Application.
Configure the following properties in the Business Term Association section of Metadata Load Settings page to automatically associate business terms:
Property
Description
Enable Business Term Association
Enables business term association for columns and fields in the resource.
Select Glossaries
Select business glossaries or Axon glossaries from which you want Enterprise Data Catalog to automatically associate business title to assets.
Use synonyms and stop words
Select this option to use synonyms and stop words during the business term propagation process. Some examples of stop words are 'the', 'a', 'an', and 'in'.
For example, consider a resource that contains a column named Profit and Loss Report. The word 'and' is a stop word in the column name, and you want Enterprise Data Catalog to assign or recommend the business term named ProfitLossReport for the column. After you select the Use synonyms and stop words option, Enterprise Data Catalog avoids the stop word 'and' in the column name, and then assigns or recommends the business term ProfitLossReport for the column.
Upload the synonym definitions list in Catalog Administrator if you want Enterprise Data Catalog to use synonyms to propagate business terms.
For example, Enterprise Data Catalog contains a business term named Social Security Number and column named SSN. You want the Catalog to automatically associate or recommend the business term Social Security Number for the column SSN. After you define the synonyms definition list in the Catalog Administrator, Enterprise Data Catalog recommends or assigns Social Security Number as a business title to the column.
For more information about the synonyms definitions, see the Manage Synonym Definitions section.
Avoid prefixes
Select this option if you want to avoid prefixes in the asset name during the business term propagation process.
For example, consider a resource that contains a column named as Reorderdetails. You want Enterprise Data Catalog to recommend or automatically assign the business term orderdetails to the column. After you select the Avoid prefixes option, Enterprise Data Catalog ignores the prefix Re in the column name, and then automatically assigns the business term orderdetails to the column Reorderdetails.
Custom options
Parameters that you can set to configure the business term propagation. Use the feature weight custom options to customize the priority of the data domains, column similarity, and name match conditions during the business term propagation process. Use the threshold custom options to customize the threshold limit for automatic business term associations and recommendations. Based on the threshold limit that you set, Enterprise Data Catalog assigns business terms or recommends business terms to assets.
To configure the feature weight, add the following custom options to the business term propagation resource:
  • - -Dglossary.propagation.domain.curation.feature.weight=<value>
    • - The default value is 3.
  • - -Dglossary.propagation.column.similarity.feature.weight=<value>
    • - The default value is 1.
To configure thresholds, add the following custom options to the business term propagation resource:
  • - - Dglossary.propagation.autoaccept.score.threshold=<value>
    • - The default value is 80.
  • - - Dglossary.propagation.inference.score.threshold=<value>
    • - The default value is 60.
For more information about business term propagation, see the Business Term Propagation topic.