Asset type groups

Updated: October 31, 2025

Important This feature is available only in the latest UI.

Asset type groups allow multiple asset types to be grouped based on a shared function or purpose. If you have a global role with the System administration global permission, you can customize asset type groups to include specific asset types, depending on your organizational needs.

Asset type groups help make relation types more meaningful by enabling relation types to be defined at a group level. Rather than configuring relations solely between individual asset types, you can set relation types between entire asset type groups, providing clearer and more relevant connections between related assets.

Asset type groups have a global assignment, which defines a set of relation types. When you add an asset type to a group, the assignments of the asset type and any descendant asset types inherit the group's relation types.

Note Asset type groups are system-managed and their properties can't be edited:

Asset type group assignments contain only relation types and no other characteristic types. Therefore, you can't add a column with attributes to a relation table that references an asset type group.
You can't create your own custom asset type groups.
You can't add an asset type group as the source or target of a custom relation type.
You can choose which asset types to add to an asset type group, based on your organizational needs.

Viewing all asset type groups

The Asset type groups table in the Operating Model settings contains all asset type groups. You can also find the asset types and relation types in which a specific asset type group is used by selecting the row containing the asset type group and then clicking Used In.

Out-of-the-box asset type groups

The following table contains out-of-the-box asset type groups, which you can also find in the Asset type groups table in the Operating Model settings.

Name	Description	Public ID
Data Product Input	Physical input for a data product. Tip Use this asset type group only in advanced governance use cases that involve the Data Product Input Port asset type.	DataProductInput
Data Product Port Asset	Assets that are linked to a data product port. Tip By default, only tables are included in this asset type group. We recommend exposing only tables, but data sets and data elements are also fully supported in the community workflows if you include them in this asset type group.	DataProductOutput
Measure Source	Source assets involved in the calculation of a business measure. It includes immediate formula inputs as well as higher-level assets they originate from, such as tables or data entities.	MeasureSource
Referencing Asset	Assets that are semantically linked to a business asset. It provides the connection between the business meaning of a concept and where it physically exists.	ReferencingAsset
Storage Element	Assets that can be part of a storage container.	StorageElement

Manage an asset type group

You can choose which asset types are included in an asset type group, either from the asset type group page or from the asset type page.

Prerequisites

You have a global role with the Product Rights > System administration global permission.

Steps

Open the asset type group.
1. On the main toolbar, click → Settings.
  The Settings page opens.
2. Click the Operating Model tab.
  Operating Model settings are shown.
3. On the Asset type groups tab, click the name of the asset type group.
  The asset type group page opens.
In the Included asset types section, select one or more asset types.
Your changes are applied immediately.

Open the asset type.
1. On the main toolbar, click → Settings.
  The Settings page opens.
2. Click the Operating Model tab.
  Operating Model settings are shown.
3. On the Asset types tab, in the table, click the name of the asset type.
  The asset type page opens.
Tip You can also open an asset type from an asset page by clicking the asset type in the upper-left corner of the asset page.

Note The asset type must have a global assignment.
On the Overview tab, in the Can be used as (Asset Type Group) section, select one or more asset type groups.
Click Save.