Finding and viewing an asset in a catalog
You find assets in a catalog on the Browse page. You must be a collaborator in the catalog.
You can find an asset in these ways:
Watch the following video on how to find assets quickly in a catalog.
This video provides a visual method as an alternative to following the written steps in this documentation.
Browse for an asset
Before you search, you can browse through these types of assets:
- Recently added assets
- Recommended assets
- Highly rated assets (3 stars or more)
Recommended assets
Click Watson Recommends to see up to 20 assets that are recommended for you. Watson Knowledge Catalog uses Watson Machine Learning to derive a list of assets that you haven't accessed yet based on attributes common to the assets that you've viewed, created, and added to projects, such as tags, asset classification, data classes, data types, asset owners, and asset types.
The more assets that you access, the better the recommendations are.
Search for an asset
To search for an asset, enter keywords in the search field for matches in these asset properties:
- Tags
- Name
- Description
- Terms
- Business terms that are associated with assets
- Column names
You can filter results by:
- Tags
- Business terms that are associated with data assets
- Asset types
You can sort results by name, asset type, or date added.
You can also search for assets across all catalogs and projects that you belong to.
View an asset
To view an asset in a catalog, click its name. You'll see a set of pages about the asset:
Basic information about an asset is shown in the About this asset side panel that you can show or hide by clicking the information icon. The asset information includes asset owner, privacy, format and size, source, tags, and date added.
Information about asset activities is available in a side panel. To view the activities panel, click 
. The activities panel shows the history of the events that are performed on the asset.
Overview page
The asset Overview page shows the governance artifacts that are assigned to the asset and relationships to other assets. For data assets, the Columns section shows the quality score, description, assigned data classes, and assigned business terms for each column. If you have permission, you can edit asset properties and asset relationships on this page.
Asset page
The Asset page shows a preview of the contents of the asset if the asset type supports previews and you have the proper permissions. The preview might show cached information. To ensure that the latest data is displayed, refresh the page by clicking the refresh button.
If the asset has an associated file that is stored in the catalog's storage, you can download the file.
For added security, data masking or row filtering is also provided based on the permissions of the person who is viewing the data. If you see a shield icon 
next to the column name of a relational data asset, it means that the data in the column is masked by a data protection rule. The owner of the asset is not affected by
data protection rules and always sees the original values.
If you are denied access to an asset by a data protection rule, you can see only the metadata of the asset. For example, when you click on a blocked asset in a catalog, you can see the Overview page and the About this asset pane, but not the preview of the data on the Asset page.
Access page
The Access page shows the asset owner, the privacy setting, and the asset members. If you have permission, you can control access to an asset on this page.
Review page
The Review page shows the ratings and reviews of the asset by catalog collaborators. You can rate the asset and write a review on this page.
Profile page
For data assets, the Profile page shows profile information about the contents of the asset.
Feature group page (beta)
For data assets, the Feature group page lists the features in the asset feature group. See Managing feature groups.
Next steps
Parent topic: Catalog assets