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Knowledge Catalog

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Ability to add users (from user groups) to individual assets

Currently, if a user group is added to access a catalog, individuals who are part of that user group, cannot be added to assets. A large Federal customer requests the ability to both: 1) add user groups to catalogs (exists today), & 2) add ind...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Ability to add users (from user groups) to individual assets

Currently, if a user group is added to access a catalog, individuals who are part of that user group, cannot be added to assets. A large Federal customer requests the ability to both: 1) add user groups to catalogs (exists today), & 2) add ind...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Predefined data classes should be leveraged for automatic business term assignment

Per our documenation, "Business terms that are linked to the predefined data classes Code, Identifier, Date, Text, Indicator, Quantity, and Boolean are not considered for term assignment". A large Federal customer requests the ability to leverage ...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Request to differentiate the import selection from Assets to Schemas | Tables.

Right now whenever we select the assets in the import section irrespective of the selection between schemas/tables it displays as assets.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Oracle thin client connection capabilities requiring specification of URL

We need to connect WKC to Oracle using Oracle Connection Manager using the JDBC thin client. This requires the ability to specify the connection URL with a significant string length. Currently when the Oracle connection type is specified there is ...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Not under consideration

When we use some words at one time in the search bar on the catalog, the search bar should use these in AND condition, not as a one term.

***This is an idea about the search bar on the catalog.******This is not an idea about the black search bar on top of the CP4D WEB console window.***When we use some words at one time in the search bar on the catalog, the search bar use these as a...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Reporting on Technical Metadata (Database Columns [Information Assets AND Catalog Assets], Assigned Stewards, Mapped Business Terms, and Who Performed the Enrichment)

The users of CP4D would like the CP4D Reporting Database to report on the technical metadata assets, i.e. database columns, assigned stewards to database columns, mapped business terms to database columns, and who performed the mapping of the busi...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

Increase the number of characters of relationship description or allow attaching files.

Increase the number of characters of relationship description or allow attaching files.
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Future consideration

Download option for artifacts import summary

Hi Team, After importing the artifacts (business terms/ data classes or more) through csv file, the import summary didn't have the download option that client is expecting. Please add download option for import error report. Client imported the da...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Need filter on every column and sort functionality in MDI/MDE Screen

WKC MDI/MDE screen is not user friendly. It does not allow to filter any columns or sort function is not there. during the troubleshooting, we are not able to dissect any tables other than manually look at each page. we have MDI's which are too la...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists