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Making bulk changes to metadata enrichment results

Last updated: Jun 23, 2025
Making bulk changes to metadata enrichment results

After reviewing the metadata enrichment results, you might want to update the results for more than one asset or column at once. You can change term, data class, and classification assignments and accept or reject suggested display names and descriptions.

Update the following results:

Changing term, data class, or classification assignments

You might want to assign specific business terms or classifications to more than one asset or column, or you might want to remove business terms or classifications from several assets or columns because they don't fit. You also might want to change the assigned data class for a set of columns or even remove data class assignments completely, for example, for all columns of a specific table.

Depending on the volume of changes, you might see a success message for the bulk operation before the changes are actually complete. You might need to refresh the view several times before you see all changes applied.

Required permissions
To change assignments, you must have at least the Editor role in the project, and you must have at least view access to the categories that are used in the enrichment.

You can also perform these tasks with APIs instead of the user interface. The links to these APIs are listed in the Learn more section.

Changing business term assignments

Select the data assets or columns for which you want to change the business term assignments. You can filter assets and columns, for example, for a specific asset or for a specific business term, and select from the result.

  • To assign business terms:

    1. Click Add or edit > Assign business terms.
    2. Select the classifications to assign.
    3. Click Assign. The business terms are added to the existing term assignments for the selected data assets or columns.

  • To remove business terms, select Remove > Remove business terms. With this option, you reset the term assignments for the selected data assets or columns. You clear all assigned, suggested, or removed (rejected) terms from these data assets or columns. You might want to do that in these cases:

    • You already ran term assignment but the terms or the models were outdated.
    • You ran term assignment with an incorrect category scope so that you now have a lot of incorrect term assignments or suggestions.
    • You want to redo term assignment from scratch.

Changing classification assignments

Select the data assets or columns for which you want to change the classification assignments. You can filter assets and columns, for example, for a specific asset or for a specific classification, and select from the result.

  • To assign classifications:

    1. Click Add or edit > Assign classifications.
    2. Select the classifications to assign.
    3. Click Assign. The classifications are added to the existing classification assignments for the selected data assets or columns.

  • To remove classifications, select Remove > Remove classifications. All classification assignments for the selected assets or columns are removed.

Changing data class assignments for columns

To change the data class assignments for a set of columns, select the columns. You can filter columns, for example, for a specific asset or for a specific data class, and select columns from the result.

  • To assign a data class:

    1. Click Add or edit > Assign data class.
    2. Select the data class to assign.
    3. Click Assign. The data class is assigned to all selected columns. Previous data class assignments are overwritten.

  • To remove data classes, select Remove > Remove data class. All data class assignments for the selected columns are removed. For each column, the data class is added to the list of suggested data classes instead. The Data class column now shows a dash (—) for the selected columns.

Accepting or rejecting display names or descriptions

After you review the suggested display names or description, you might want to accept or reject some of the reviewed suggestions in bulk. Depending on the volume of changes, you might see a success message for the bulk operation before the changes are actually complete. You might need to refresh the view several times before you see all changes applied.

Accepting suggested display names or descriptions

To accept multiple suggestions for display names or descriptions at once:

  1. Select the data assets or columns for which you want to accept the suggestions.
  2. Select More > Accept display name suggestions or More > Accept description suggestions.

The descriptions for the selected data assets or columns are moved from the Suggested description column to the Description column. The accepted display names or descriptions now show a blue dot and are marked as Assigned by user in the Details tab in the side panel.

Rejecting suggested display names or descriptions

To reject multiple suggestions for display names or descriptions at once:

  1. Select the data assets or columns for which you want to reject the suggestions.
  2. Select More > Reject display name suggestions or More > Reject description suggestions.

The suggested display names or descriptions for the selected data assets or columns are removed.

Editing display names or descriptions

In some cases, you might want to have multiple assets or columns have the same display name or the same description. For example, you might assign the same display name to all columns with the same original name in segmented data assets. Or, you might have a naming convention for certain types column that you want to apply and then set the same description for all columns with that specific display name.

To edit multiple display names or description at once:

  1. Select the data assets or columns for which you want to edit the display names or descriptions.
  2. Click Add or edit > Edit display names or Add or edit > Edit descriptions.
  3. In the edit window, enter the new name or the new description and click Save.
  4. The new information replaces the existing display names or descriptions.

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Next steps

Parent topic: Enriching your data assets