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Dataphin:View asset catalog

Last Updated:Mar 05, 2025

The asset catalog presents a list of assets, enabling operations like search and requesting consumption permissions, thus offering an efficient and convenient way to search for data assets. This topic details the asset catalog's features.

Prerequisites

  • Table/Metric Asset/Dashboard Asset: Purchased assets include value-added services related to asset operation, and the current tenant has activated the Asset Operation module.

  • API asset: The asset operation value-added service and the data service feature have been purchased.

Limits

Requesting consumption permissions is not supported when the data source type is PolarDB-X (DRDS), SAP HANA, IBM DB2, or OceanBase (MySQL, Oracle tenant mode).

Catalog page introduction

  1. On the Dataphin home page, select Asset > Asset Catalog from the top menu bar.

  2. You can search for and view asset details on the catalog page.

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    Area

    Description

    Search area

    Supports searching assets in four ways: global search, search within results, search by name only, and search by description only.

    • Global Search: Supports full fuzzy search of assets based on asset name, display name, or description keywords.

    • Search Within Results: Add additional search keywords to the search results.

    • Search By Name Only: Supports full fuzzy search of assets based on asset name keywords.

    • Search By Description Only: Supports full fuzzy search of assets based on asset description keywords.

    List filtering

    • All assets: You can click All Assets to view all asset objects under this topic.

    • The left side supports viewing data tables from a topic perspective, displaying all catalogs under this topic. You can switch topics at the top; after selecting a level directory, the right list automatically displays the asset objects belonging to the current directory and its subdirectories.

    • You can click Expand All or Collapse All on the right side of the topic to expand or collapse the topic directory tree; you can also click Collapse Navigation to collapse the entire directory tree; if you need to display the directory tree, you can click Expand Navigation at the top left.

    • Supports filtering target assets based on some system properties and all custom properties. You can click More Filters and select the properties to be used as filter options in the add dialog box.

      • The supported filter conditions for filter options are contains, does not contain, is empty, and is not empty.

        • Contains/Does Not Contain: Supports multiple selection of property values. If the property assignment interaction method is custom input, you can customize input keywords.

        • Is Empty/Is Not Empty: No additional configuration is required.

          Note
          • When the asset source property is used as a filter option, the conditions is empty/is not empty are not supported.

          • When the statistic granularity property is used as a filter option, filter conditions are not supported.

          • The custom properties in the filter options are properties created in Data Warehouse Plan > Property Management that are visible in the asset catalog.

          • If too many filter options are enabled, it may affect query efficiency. It is recommended to configure no more than 10 filter options.

    Asset list

    To meet the needs of different business personnel to quickly understand the summary information of assets. Click Set and select the property information to be displayed in the dialog box, then click OK.

    Note
    • Supports selecting no more than 16 properties.

    • Supports sorting the selected properties. After sorting, the asset list displays the property information in the sorted order.

    • The selectable properties are all custom properties and some system properties configured on the Data Warehouse Plan > Property Management page that are visible in the asset catalog.

    Data table asset

    Displays the asset's name, asset type, tags, description, highest confidentiality level (data security module needs to be enabled), and related information of the selected properties. Meanwhile, you can perform operations such as go to analysis (supported after requesting consumption permissions), request permissions, and add to request basket.

    View asset details: Click the asset's name to view detailed information about the asset. For more information, see view data table asset details.

    If the asset has been deleted, it is marked with a yellow icon. You can click Listed in the list and click Delisting to remove it.

    • Go to analysis: When the data table is a Dataphin table and the data source type is MySQL, Oracle, MaxCompute, or Hive, and consumption permissions have been requested, visual analytics can be performed on the asset in Notebook or Quick BI.

      • Notebook analysis: Click to jump to the Notebook page and automatically create the corresponding Notebook task. For more information, see create a new Notebook.

        Note

        When the data source type is MySQL or Oracle, creating Notebook tasks is supported.

      • Quick BI Dashboard/Data Download: Click to call out the My BI Analysis drawer to view the BI analysis tasks created with the current asset as the dataset. For more information, see My BI Analysis.

        Note

        When the Hive data source is CDH5.x Hive 1.1.0 version or the MySQL data source is MySQL 5.1.43 version, creating Quick BI analysis tasks is not supported.

    • Request permissions: Business system tables do not support requesting consumption permissions. Requesting consumption permissions for assets is supported. For more information, see request consumption permissions.

    • Add to request basket: Business system tables do not support requesting consumption permissions. Adding assets to the request basket for unified consumption permission requests is supported. For more information, see request consumption permissions.

    Metric asset

    Displays the asset's name, asset type, tags, description, and related information of the selected properties.

    View asset details: Click the asset's name to view detailed information about the asset. For more information, see view metric asset details.

    If the asset has been deleted, it is marked with a yellow icon. You can click Listed in the list and click Delisting to remove it.

    API asset

    Displays the asset's name, API_ID, tags, description, service project, API group, and related information of the selected properties. Meanwhile, you can perform operations such as view details and request permissions.

    • View asset details: Click the asset's name to view detailed information about the asset. For more information, see view API asset details.

      If the asset has been deleted, it is marked with a yellow icon. You can click Listed in the list and click Delisting to remove it.

    • Request Permissions: Click to quickly jump to the permission request page of the current API. For more information, see manage API permissions.

    Dashboard asset

    Displays the asset's name, asset type, tags, description, asset source, associated BI space/folder, total number of charts, and related information of the selected properties.

    View asset details: Click the asset's name to view detailed information about the asset. For more information, see view dashboard asset details.

    If the asset has been deleted, it is marked with a yellow icon. You can click Listed in the list and click Delisting to remove it.

    Request basket

    You can batch request consumption permissions for assets in the request basket to improve request efficiency. For more information, see request consumption permissions.