Getting Started with Data Catalog Links
Data Catalog Links connect your Qualytics assets (datastores, containers, and fields) to their counterpart assets 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 source datastore level:
- How the links work, and how manual and automatic links behave
- How to manage a datastore's link by hand
- How to synchronize a single datastore with its catalog
- The API behind the links, and answers to common questions
Containers and fields 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 Data Catalog Links on Containers and Data Catalog Links on Fields.
Deep Dive
Understand what the links are, how manual and automatic linking behave, and who can do what.
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Introduction
What Data Catalog Links are, where they apply, and which datastores offer them.
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How It Works
Manual and automatic links, how a manual datastore link anchors its children, and what relinking changes.
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Synchronization
What Pull and Push exchange, and the two scopes a synchronization can run in.
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Permissions
The team permission and roles behind viewing, linking, and synchronizing.
How-tos
Manage a datastore's links step by step.
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Link Asset
Link a datastore 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 datastore in one more connected catalog.
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Sync a Catalog
Start a synchronization scoped to the datastore, straight from the dialog.