Editing asset properties in a catalog

You can edit asset properties to enrich the information about the asset, regardless of whether the asset is custom or predefined. For example, you can add business terms to an asset, change its owner, or edit the asset name.

Required permissions

To edit asset properties, you must have the following roles and permissions:

Admin or Editor role in the catalog.
The Asset owner or Asset editor role.

Some properties require other permissions to edit. The following table shows the asset property tasks that you can complete depending on your catalog role.

Permission	Tasks
Admin + asset owner or editor	All tasks
Admin	All tasks, except managing private assets
Editor + asset owner or editor	All tasks
Editor	Modify tags, edit your reviews, and edit connections that you created
Viewer	Edit your reviews and connections that you created

Procedure

To edit an asset property, locate the asset in the catalog, and open it to view its properties. The asset properties are available in the side pane and in the page tabs. The following image shows the properties that you can edit in the Overview page and the side pane.

Screen capture that shows that the asset name, description, asset owner, privacy, format, and tags can be edited from the asset overview page

Use the following table to find and edit the properties that you want to change.

Editable property	How to edit	Required conditions
Name	Click the Edit icon next to the asset name.	• Admin • Editor + asset owner or editor
Description	In the side pane, click the Edit icon next to the asset description.	• Admin • Editor + asset owner or editor
Asset owner	In the side pane, click the Edit icon next to Asset owner.	• Admin • Editor + asset owner or editor
Asset access	In the side pane, click the Edit icon next to Privacy. See Controlling access to an asset in a catalog.	Public assets: • Admin • Editor + asset owner or editor Private assets: Asset owner or member
Format	In the side pane, click the Edit icon next to the asset format.	• Admin • Editor + asset owner or editor
Personal connection details	To modify your own credentials, click the name of the connection under Source in the side pane. To add a connection, open the Asset page. See Adding a connection asset to a catalog.	Any role
Tags	In the side pane, click the Add (+) or (-) Remove icon next to the tag.	When the asset is affected by a data protection rule, an editor must be an asset owner or editor.
Governance artifacts	In the Overview page, add or delete classifications, business terms, and data classes by using the Add (+) or Remove (-) icons.	• Admin + asset owner or editor • Editor + asset owner or editor
Asset relationships	In the Overview page, scroll to the Related items section. To add a relationship, click Add assets. See Adding asset relationships. To remove a relationship, click the Remove (-) icon next to the relationship.	• Admin • Editor + asset owner or editor
Column properties	In the Overview page, click a column row. In the side pane, edit the column properties in the Details tab and manage Governance artifacts in the Governance tab.	• Admin • Editor + asset owner or editor
Ratings and reviews	In the Review page, edit or remove your own reviews.	Any role
Feature group (beta)	In the Feature group page, add, edit, or remove a feature. See Managing feature groups.	• Admin • Editor + asset owner or editor

Editing asset properties with APIs

You can use the Watson Data API to edit the properties of a singular asset or multiple assets.

To edit the properties of a singular asset:

To edit asset properties in bulk:

Patch one or more assets

You can use the assetframe-lib Python library (beta) to edit feature group information for data assets. See Managing feature groups with assetframe-lib for Python (beta).

Learn more

Watson Data API

Parent topic: Catalog assets