Prepare a domain for Looker ingestion

You can create one or more domains for your Looker assets. You then specify:

• One domain reference ID in the lineage harvester configuration file. This domain is the default domain.
• If you want to ingest the contents of specific Looker Folders into specific domains in Collibra, you specify the domain reference IDs in the filters section of the Looker <source ID> configuration file.

Collibra uses the specified domain (or domains) to ingest all Looker assets during the Looker integration process.

Prerequisites

• You have a resource role with the Domain > Add resource permission.

Steps

1. On the main toolbar, click .
   The Create dialog box appears.
2. Click the Organization tab.
3. Click a domain type from the list.
   If you clicked the wrong domain type here, you can change it in the Type field in the next screen.
   The Create Domain dialog box appears.
4. Enter the required information.
   

   Field	Description
   Type	The domain type of the domain you are creating. In this case, you need to select BI Catalog.
   Community	The community under which the domain will be located.
   Name	The name of the new domain or domains. Tip  You can create multiple domains in one go. To do this, press Enter after typing a value and then type the next. Domain names have to be unique in their parent community. If you type a name that already exists, it will appear in strike-through style.

5. Click Create.
6. Open your domain. If you created multiple domains, open each of them in turn.
7. Copy the reference ID of each domain you created.
   Tip If you go to your domain, you can find the reference ID in the URL. The URL looks like: https://<yourcollibrainstance>/domain/22258f64-40b6-4b16-9c08-c95f8ec0da26?view=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000040001. In this example, the reference ID is in bold.
8. Paste a reference ID in the domainId property in your lineage harvester configuration file. This is your default domain.
   
   Note Metadata from Looker data sets is ingested in the default domain, even if you configure filtering.
9. If you want to ingest the contents of specific Looker Folders into specific domains in Collibra, you specify the domain reference IDs in the filters section of the Looker <source ID> configuration file.

Warning When you run the lineage harvester, Collibra Data Lineage creates all Looker assets in the specified domain (or domains) in Collibra. We highly recommend that you do not move these assets to other domains. If you move assets to other domains, they will be deleted and recreated in the initial Data Catalog BI domain (or domains) when you synchronize Looker. As a consequence, all manually added data of those assets is lost.