Important This feature is in preview and only available in the latest UI. It is not enabled by default and must be activated on your Collibra instance by Collibra Support. For more information, go to this knowledge article.
Synchronizing outbound metadata via the Google Knowledge Catalog (formerly Dataplex Universal Catalog) integration is the process of pushing enriched metadata from Collibra to Knowledge Catalog. You can only synchronize manually. Once you have set it up, outbound synchronization runs automatically every 5 minutes if there are outbound events to process.
Any attribute changes in Collibra Platform are reflected for all supported asset types in the Knowledge Catalog integration. This includes Schema, Table, Database View, and Column assets.
Prerequisites
In your Collibra environment:
- When you created the GCP connection, you set the necessary permissions in Knowledge Catalog for outbound synchronization.
- You have integrated metadata from Knowledge Catalog to Collibra Platform.
Steps
Manually synchronize Knowledge Catalog:
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On the main toolbar, click
→
Catalog.
The Catalog homepage opens. - Click Integrations.
The Integrations page opens. - Click the Integration configuration tab.
- In the Connection name column, locate the GCP connection that you used when you added the Knowledge Catalog capability and click the capability link in the Capabilities column.
The Knowledge Catalog capability configuration page opens. - Select the Metadata Outbound tab and then click Add configuration.
- In the Aspect Mappings section, click Add Aspect Mapping to add a new mapping:
- In the Asset field, select the supported asset type to which you want to apply the aspect mapping. If you do not specify an asset type, the aspect mapping will apply to all applicable asset types by default.
- In the Attribute field, select the attribute whose value you want to send to Knowledge Catalog.
- In Aspect field, specify the aspect and field path in Knowledge Catalog where the attribute value should be mapped.
Use the following pattern:projectid.location.aspectName>fieldPath.
For example: xxxxxxxx.europe-west4.custom-aspect>custom_field1.
- Click Save.
Outbound synchronization runs automatically every 5 minutes if there are outbound events to process.
The synchronization job synchronizes the Knowledge Catalog data.
After the synchronization:
- You can view a summary of the results in the Activities tab in Collibra settings.
- You can view the updated aspects in Knowledge Catalog.