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Adding catalog assets to a project

Adding catalog assets to a project

You can add a catalog asset to a project from within the project or from within the catalog.

The project must meet these requirements:

  • Use IBM Cloud Object Storage.
  • Restrict collaborators to members of the same IBM Cloud account or company as the owner of the catalog. See Creating a project.
Required permissions
You must have the following permissions to copy a catalog asset to a project:
  • Any collaborator role in the catalog, however, if the privacy setting for the asset in the catalog is private, you must be a member of the asset.
  • The Admin or Editor role in the project.
Restrictions
You can't add an asset in these situations:
  • If the asset is blocked by data protection rules.
  • If the asset requires a private connection asset that you're not a member of.
  • If the asset requires a service instance, but you don't have permission to access or create one. You can ask a project admin for help.

For relational data assets, if any of the columns are masked when you view the asset in the catalog, those columns are also masked when you add the asset to a project. All project collaborators see the asset the way it looks to the person who adds it from the catalog.

Asset profile information is copied to the catalog; data quality information is not copied.

If you add assets from a catalog in another account, profiles of structured data assets are not copied because the set of available data classes might be different. You must manually create a new profile.

Add assets from within a project

To add catalog assets from within a project:

  1. From your project, click Assets > Import assets > Catalog asset.
  2. Choose a catalog, then select the assets you want to import.
  3. Click Import. If the assets require connections, the connection assets will be automatically added to the project, including connections to IBM Cloud Object Storage for uploaded files.

The assets are added to the project.

Add assets from within the catalog

To add assets to a project from the catalog:

  1. From the catalog Browse page, search for the assets you want to add and select them.
  2. Click Add to Project. If any of the assets require a connection, those connections are listed and will be added to the project as connection assets, including connections to IBM Cloud Object Storage for uploaded files. If you don't want to add a connection, you can remove it. All assets that require the removed connection are removed from the list of assets to add.
  3. Choose the project name.
  4. If prompted, choose or create a required service instance.
  5. Click Add.

The assets are added to the project.

Watch these short videos to see how to use catalog assets in a project.

This video provides a visual method to learn the concepts and tasks in this documentation.

Next steps

Parent topic: Projects

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