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:
- Create a predefined relationship. For more information, see Predefined relationships.
- Create a custom relationship. For more information, see Creating custom relationships.
- View relationships in the relationship explorer. For more information, see Relationship explorer.
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, governance artifacts and projects.
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Parent topic: Asset types and properties