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Editing asset properties in a catalog

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 one of the following roles in the catalog:

  • Admin
  • Editor and an asset member or asset owner

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 member All tasks
Admin All tasks, except managing private assets
Editor + asset owner or member 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 (edit icon) icon next to the asset name. Admin
Editor + asset owner or member
Description In the side pane, click the edit (edit icon) icon next to the asset description. Admin
Editor + asset owner or member
Asset owner In the side pane, click the edit (edit icon) icon next to Asset owner. Admin
Editor + asset owner or member
Asset access In the side pane, click the edit (edit icon) icon next to Privacy. See Controlling access to an asset in a catalog. Public assets:
Admin
Editor + asset owner or member
Private assets: Asset owner or member
Format In the side pane, click the edit (edit icon) icon next to the asset format. Admin
Editor + asset owner or member
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 a member or owner of the asset.
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 member
Editor + asset owner or member
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 member
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 member
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 member

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:

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).

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Parent topic: Catalog assets

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