viewer

The viewer shows the and allows you to edit the view. You can access the viewer via the tab on Column and Table asset pages and BI assets of the same level.

The viewer shows the and allows you to edit the view. You can access the viewer by clicking Technical Lineage in the tab bar on Column and Table asset pages and BI assets of the same level.

Technical lineage tab

You can see the Technical Lineage tab on a Column or Table asset page only when you have the following prerequisites:

View permissions are not enforced in . This means that anyone with the Technical Lineage global permission can see all of the assets in a graph, regardless of their view permissions as determined at the community or domain level.

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Name Description
Toolbar

The toolbar to work with . The toolbar helps you to edit basic settings that apply to the entire lineage.

The drop-down list to determine which details you want to show in the technical lineage graph. The drop-down list includes the following options:

  • Attributes: Select this option if your is a column-level lineage.
  • Objects: Select this option if your is a table-level lineage.
  • Transformations: Select this option to see the incoming and outgoing transformations.

The button to zoom in on the .

The button to zoom out on the .

The button to refresh the . This discards all the changes that you made to the and restores it to the initial state.

The button to reposition the to the starting position.

The button to show or hide the legend panel.

The button to show or hide the source code pane.

The button to show or hide the Browse and Settings tab panes.

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The actual visualization of the traceability of the current data object, according to your selection in the Browse tab pane.

If you select a specific column in a table with multiple columns, you can right-click the column and hover over Collapsed attributes to show all other columns or only the selected columns in the same table.

Data objects that are stitched to assets in have a yellow background. Other data objects that collected from your data source, but are not stitched and therefore are not assets in , have a gray background.

Tab panes

Tab panes that contain useful tools to browse through your or determine which content is visualized in the .

Browse tab pane

This pane can be used to search for specific data objects or show statistics on the amount of tables and views in use. More information.

Settings tab pane

This pane can be used to search for transformation code, edit the visualization of the , see the status of the source code, check the stitching results or export your to PDF, PNG or CSV. More information.

Source code pane

The source code pane shows the source code of specific data objects. It can be used to easily find issues in the data flow.

The source code pane is shown when you click in the toolbar or when you right-click a column or table and click Transformations (IN) or Transformations (OUT) which shows the transformation logic in the source code pane.

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Name Description
Toolbar

The toolbar to work with . The toolbar helps you to edit basic settings that apply to the entire lineage.

The button to show or hide the legend of the .

The button to show or hide the minimap, which shows the zoomed-out view of the . You can quickly understand the structure and navigate to different sections by dragging or clicking within it.

Performance of the minimap for large technical lineage graphs will be optimized in a future release.

The button to export the in the following format:

  • SVG
  • PNG
  • PDF
  • Graph CSV
The button to show or hide the transformations viewer.
The button to reposition the technical lineage to the starting position.
The button to show or hide the Browse pane.
A search field that you can use to find a specific data object in the . Enter the name of a database, schema, table, or column.
Display options

The button to open display options. Use the Display options pane to edit the visualization of the ,

The button to zoom in the .
The button to zoom out the .

The button to expand the canvas.

The button to show the following options:

  • Zoom to fit
  • Zoom to 100%

graph

The actual visualization of the traceability of the current data object, according to your selection in the Browse pane.

Data objects that are stitched to assets in have yellow icons. Other data objects that collected from your data source, but are not stitched and therefore are not assets in , have gray icons.

Transformations viewer

The Transformations viewer pane shows the source code of specific data objects. It can be used to easily find issues in the data flow.

The Transformations viewer pane is shown when you click in the toolbar or when you right-click a column or table and click Transformations (IN) or Transformations (OUT) which shows the transformation logic.

The button to expand the Transformations viewer pane .

The button to close the Transformations viewer pane.

Browse pane

Use this pane to browse through your and search for specific data objects in this pane.

View status

The button to show the Status pane.

The Status pane contains the following tab panes: