Add an assignment

Updated: April 14, 2025

Adding a global or scoped assignment to an asset type allows you to tailor governance responsibilities to specific contexts. This targeted approach improves data quality within specific areas, and facilitates more effective data governance across the organization.

You can add an assignment to an asset type if you want to change the behavior of assets of this type in Collibra. For example, you may do this to make a specific attribute type available only for assets of a certain type.

Prerequisites

• You have a global role that has the Product Rights > System administration global permission.
• For scoped assignment, you have created the scope.

Steps

1. Open an asset type.
   1. On the main toolbar, click → Settings.
      The Collibra settings page opens.
   2. Click Operating Model.
      The Operating Model settings page opens.
   3. On the Asset types tab page, click the name of an 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.

2. Create a global or scoped assignment:

   Assignment type	Steps
   Global assignment	In the tab pane, click Add global assignment. The Add Global Assignment dialog box appears. Click Add global assignment. The asset type no longer inherits the assignments of its parent asset types. Note Each asset type can only have one global assignment.
   Scoped assignment	In the tab pane, click Add assignment. The Select scope for this assignment dialog box appears. Select a scope. Note You can only add one scope at a time. Click Add assignment. The settings of the global assignment are copied into the selected scope. Note You can only create scoped assignments if the asset type has a global assignment.

What's next?

You can now edit the assignment.