Managing relationships in a catalog
You can add relationships for assets, governance artifacts, and columns in the same catalog or in different catalogs, projects, or deployment spaces.
Required permissions
To add or remove a relationship, you must have the required permissions on both the source and the target of the relationship.
| Relationship pair | Permissions on source asset | Permissions on target item |
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| Asset to an asset in a catalog | - Admin role in the catalog - Editor role in the catalog + asset owner or editor |
- Admin role in the catalog - Editor role in the catalog + asset owner or editor |
| Asset to an asset in a project or space | - Admin role in the catalog - Editor role in the catalog + asset owner or editor |
- Admin role in the project or space - Editor role in the project or space |
| Asset to a governance artifact or category | - Admin role in the catalog - Editor role in the catalog + asset owner or editor |
Any role in the primary category for the artifact |
| Asset to a column | - Admin role in the catalog - Editor role in the catalog + asset owner or editor |
- Admin role in the catalog - Editor role in the catalog + asset owner or editor |
Adding asset relationships
To add a relationship between assets:
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On the Overview page of an asset, click Add asset in the Related assets section.
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Select the type of relationship to add and click Next. You can select a predefined relationship or any custom relationship.
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Select one or more target assets and click Add. You can filter the assets by workspace or asset type and search for assets by name.
You can also add relationships between assets by using the Watson Data API. See Create asset relationships with the Data and AI Common Core API.
Deleting relationships from assets
To delete a relationship:
- On the Overview page of an asset, click remove icon next to the relationship in the Relationships section.
- Click Delete.
You can also delete relationships between assets by using the Data and AI Common Core API. See Delete asset relationships with the Data and AI Common Core API.
Adding column relationships
To add a column relationship, click a column row in the Overview page. In the side pane, click the three dots beside the Related items section. To add a relationship, click Add related columns.
Creating custom relationship types
You can create custom types of relationships for assets and then assign your custom relationships to assets or governance artifacts in the catalog. Custom relationships appear in the list of relationships that you see when you add a relationship in the Related items section of the asset's Overview page.
To learn how to create custom relationship types, see Creating custom relationships.
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Parent topic: Relationships in a catalog