Example: Importing data classes, and starting the automatic classification for a table

You want to import 2 data classes in the Unified Data Classification method.

Steps

1. On the main toolbar, click → Stewardship.
2. Click the Data Classification tab.
3. Click Import.
   A dialog box opens, listing all the out-of-the-box data classes and their status. For information on the possible statuses, go to About out-of-the-box data classes.
   
4. Select Date: date and Phone number.
   

   Note The Date: date data class is based on a regular expression for data and on a data type. This means that a column will be classified as Date: date if the data type of the column in the data source is a date or of the data in the column matches the regular expression.

   
   

5. Click Import.
   The data classes are added.
   If you click the data class preview, the details appear.
   
   

6. Start the automatic classification.

   1. Navigate to a Table asset.
   2. Select Actions → Classify.
      The data classification process starts. For more information, go to Automatically classify assets
      If a data class matches a column in the Table asset, a data classification suggestion will be assigned to the Column asset with a confidence percentage. For more information, go to accepting and rejecting data classification suggestions.

What's next

You can also configure a data class that is based on a list of values.