Profile Import
You can import a profile from the Model repository and view the profile in Test Data Manager.
For example, you can run a profile on a flat file source in the Developer tool. You can import the profile into TDM. You can then use the profile information to apply masking rules to mask source data or to create a data subset in TDM.
Import the profile from within a project. You can run a single profile to identify multiple types of data. So a profile might contain data domain, primary key, foreign key, and column profile information. Select the types of profile information that you want to import.
Before you import a profile, import the metadata and the objects in the profile into the TDM repository. For example, before you import a data domain profile, the TDM repository must contain all the data domains that appear in the profile. You can import the data domains from the Model repository. You cannot view the profile after import if data domains with the same name do not exist in the TDM repository.
You can import profiles with table names that contain alphanumeric characters or the special character _.
Importing a Profile
You can import profiles from the Model repository into TDM. You can then view the profile in Test Data Manager.
Verify that the source metadata and the data domains are in the TDM repository before you import the profile. Import the metadata into the project from a connection by the same name as the connection that you used to run the profile.
1. Open the project and click the Discover | Profile view.
2. Click Actions > Import Profile.
The Import Profiles dialog box appears.
3. Select the profile that you want to import from the Model repository. Click Next.
You cannot import a profile that contains a table name with special characters other than _.
4. Optional. TDM imports the profile with the same name and description. Edit the profile name and description if required.
5. Optional. Choose to import the curation information with the profile.
When you import the curation information, TDM imports the saved review information and performs tasks based on the review information. For example, TDM assigns a data domain to a column if the inferred data domain is approved in a data domain profile.
6. Select the required profile types.
By default, TDM selects all the profile types that the profile contains. You can choose the profile types that you want to import.
7. If you select the Column profile type, enter the column profile properties.
8. Click Finish.
The imported profile appears in the Discover view.