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Relationships
Last updated: Feb 07, 2025
Relationships

Relationships help to understand how one item relates to another. Relationships can be created between assets, governance artifacts, or columns in a workspace.

You can use relationships in the following ways:

Relationship explorer

Relationship explorer helps to visualize, explore, and govern metadata by generating a graph to show how governance artifacts and data assets relate with each other. It provides a context for reaching a high level of understanding of the metadata.

Relationship explorer provides a comprehensive understanding of metadata and its governance across workspaces. Relationship explorer makes the following tasks easier:

  • Visualizing data in a single view to acquire a greater understanding of metadata and deliver meaningful insights.
  • Understanding the structure of metadata by viewing categorical hierarchies, sources and locations of data.
  • Ensuring compliancy and identifying sensitive data by visualization of relationships between policies and rules that are assigned to data.
  • Navigating through related data assets and governance artifacts with an interactive view.

For more information about viewing relationships in the relationship explorer, see Exploring relationships.

Requirements and restrictions for viewing relationship explorer

You can view the relationship explorer under the following circumstances.

Required service

Relationship explorer requires the IBM Knowledge Catalog service.

Required roles

To view relationship explorer, you can have any role in a catalog.

Required permissions

You must have one of the following user permissions:

  • Access governance artifacts
  • Access catalogs
  • Manage glossary

Workspaces

You can view the relationship explorer feature in catalogs and governance artifacts.

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Parent topic: Asset types and properties