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Defining and Managing Categories (2.8)

Categories enable you to define groupings of schemas in the Data Catalog ; each schema can belong to any number of categories (including none at all). Then when you search for a schema, you can use the categories as filters.

Defining a Category

To create a category:

  1. Click the Data Catalog icon in the application menu.

  2. Click Categories .

    The system displays any existing categories.

  3. Click New Category in the upper right.

  4. For Name , enter a short, unique name.

    Category names cannot differ only by case. For example, you cannot have a category named sample and another category named SAMPLE .

  5. Click Submit .

Renaming a Category

To rename a category:

  1. Click the Data Catalog icon in the application menu.

  2. Click Categories .

    The system displays any existing categories.

  3. Click the Edit icon in the row for the category.

  4. For Name , enter a new name.

  5. Click Submit .

The category name is automatically updated in all places where it is used.

Deleting a Category

To delete a category:

  1. Make sure that no schema belongs to this category. To do this, display the Data Catalog , filter to this category, and edit the schemas as necessary.

  2. Click the Data Catalog icon in the application menu.

  3. Click Categories .

    The system displays any existing categories.

  4. Click the Delete icon in the row for the category.

  5. Click Delete to confirm this action.

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