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Applicable to all users

Purpose of this article:

The Inventory is a structured way to explore data, content, queries and all other items within the ecosystem. To use the inventory, select the inventory icon on the menu bar.

Tip

<info> Search is an alternative way to explore the data ecosystem

Instructions

The inventory groups the ecosystem into a hierarchy

Overview of Inventory categories

Your data ecosystem is grouped into hierarchies based on the following 8 categories.

  1. DATA

    1. Sources - Schema - Table (e.g. Customer table)

  2. PEOPLE

    1. Teams - Person (e.g. Jane Doe)

  3. CONTENT

    1. Tools - Content items (e.g. Weekly Sales Report)

  4. ISSUE

    1. Type - Status - Issues (e.g. Duplicate data in Customer table)

  5. PROCESS

    1. Team - Criticality - Processes (e.g. Monthly Sales extract)

  6. TAG

    1. Tags

  7. COLLECTIONS

    1. Automated/Data Governance/Data Management

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Figure 1: Inventory

Click on each category to expand out the hierarchy.

Navigate by progressively selecting each sub category until you reach the last step.

Click on the item in the last step to launch its profile page. Alternatively launch sub category profile pages by clicking on the launch icon next to their name.

Info

<tip> The steppers at the top of the inventory will tell you how many sub categories there are to explore.

How to use Search

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  1. Data

  2. People

  3. Content

  4. File

  5. Code

  6. Collection

  7. Tag

  8. Issues

Instructions:

1. Click on the inventory icon on the menu bar.

2. After you click on a category, you will provided the option to drill down the hierarchy. Depending on the category selected, there may be up to 4 sub categories available to explore.

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Click on the launch button after you’ve located the specific data product you are interested in

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