Creating custom relationships

You can extend the default set of relationships available for governance artifacts and catalog assets by creating custom relationships. You can create a custom relationship that connects artifact to artifact, artifact type to asset type, asset type to asset type, column type to artifact type, column type to asset type, or column type to column type.

Required permissions

You must have the following user permissions:

Manage glossary for relationships including artifacts
Manage catalogs for relationships including assets

Custom relationship metadata

Custom relationships contain the following metadata:

Name: Character limit of 255. Must be unique for the artifact, asset, or column type.; A new custom relationship can't be created with the same name between the same artifact, asset, or column type if a custom relationship with the same name between the same artifact, asset, or column type was created before.
Description (Optional): Character limit of 255.
Labels: Character limit of 255. Relationship name for the artifact, asset, or column type at the source end and the target end of the relationship.; Both labels must be unique for the artifact, asset, or column type.
Numbers of sources and targets: Number of artifacts, assets, or columns that can be on the source end and the target end of the relationship.; For column relationship type you can only choose data asset column.
Source and target types: One or more aartifact, asset, or column types.

Creating a custom relationship

To create a custom relationship:

Go to Administration > Configuration and settings > Asset and artifact definitions.
On the Custom relationships page, click Add relationship type > New relationship type.
Specify the name and optionally a description.
Select which items the relationship connects: artifact to artifact, asset to artifact or asset, or column to artifact, asset or column, and click Next.
Specify the source and target label of the relationship.
Select one or many number of source and target assets for relationships including asset types.
Add the source and target artifact types, asset types or columns for the relationship from the list. You can select one or many types. The new relationship is available immediately.

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Parent topic: Custom properties, relationships, and asset types