Manage Your Objects

Bulk-edit, clone, move, create, and link catalog objects, and set golden links and data-quality indicators on them.

8 articles

Define and represent data quality

The objective and subjective dimensions of data quality (per DMBOK), and how to represent them in DataGalaxy across the Glossary's functional view and the Dictionary's technical, time-series view.

Manage golden links

What a golden link is in a 360° catalog, who can create one, how it appears in the Implementation tab, lineage, and service panel, and how to set or remove one.

Relationships between catalog objects

The full reference table of logical and physical link types between catalog object types — Glossary, Dictionary, Processing, and Usages — with what each relation looks like in both directions.

Link objects

The four ways to link objects across modules — via the object sheet's tabs, source-imported properties, suggestions, or shortcut attributes — with the exact steps for each relation type.

Create an object

The three ways to manually create an object, the required and optional fields in the creation modal, and how owner, steward, and technology defaults get pre-selected.

Clone objects

Create a copy of a Glossary, Usage, or Dictionary object — including a structure or a field — or clone a data processing flow, and see exactly what gets copied along with it.

Move an object

Change an object's parent from list view or the service panel — available for objects in any module that can have a parent.

Bulk-edit objects

Edit attributes and links across several selected objects at once, merge Glossary objects together, or delete a batch of objects — all from table view.