Getting Started with Data Catalog Links
Data Catalog Links connect a field (a column) to its counterpart asset in a connected data catalog, so quality metadata lands on the right asset and catalog metadata flows back. This section covers the links at the field level:
- How field links work, and how manual and automatic links behave
- How to manage a field's link by hand
- The API behind field links, and answers to common questions
Synchronizations run at the datastore level; the field pages point you there.
Datastores and containers work slightly differently
Linking is not identical across levels. Each one searches its own kind of catalog asset and has its own availability rules. See the datastore-level section and the container-level section.
Deep Dive
Understand what the links are, how manual and automatic linking behave, and who can do what.
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Introduction
What field links are and which fields offer them.
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How It Works
Manual and automatic links at the field level, and why the datastore link anchors.
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Synchronization
Why synchronizations run at the datastore level, and what they exchange for field links.
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Permissions
The team permission and roles behind viewing, linking, and changing.
How-tos
Manage a field's links step by step.
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Link Asset
Link a field to its counterpart asset, by search or by pasting the asset's URL.
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Change Asset
Point the link at a different catalog asset.
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Unlink Asset
Remove a manual link and hand the match back to the automatic synchronization.
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Link Another Catalog
Link the same field in one more connected catalog.