Viewing or Editing Business Terms

You can view business term details and its properties on the View Business Term tab. On the Business Terms Summary page, click a business term.

Apart from viewing and editing business terms, you can also compare them while viewing the asset.

The business term summary page appears.

UI Section

Function

1-Business Term List

Use this pane to browse through the list of business terms.

2-Term Details

Use this section to view business term details. Apart from viewing business term, you can view or edit the following business term properties:

  • Asset Information
  • Workflow Status
  • Governance Responsibilities
  • Classification
  • Miscellaneous
  • Business Term Image

Editing Business Terms

To edit a business term, follow these steps:

  1. On the business term summary page, click .
  2. On the Edit Business Term tab, use the following options:
    Term Details
    Use this section to edit business term's details, such as its definition and description. For description of fields on this section, refer to the Creating Business Terms topic.
    Governance Responsibilities
    Use this section to edit governance responsibilities assignment. It displays roles groups based on the roles and users assigned to a business term catalog. To edit governance responsibilities, click a role group and add or remove users. For example, in the following image Mike Mannigan is added to the Data Stewards role group.

    For more information on assigning roles and users to a catalog, refer to the Updating Data Governance Assignments topic.

    Classification
    Use this section to edit the SDI classification of a business term. For description of fields on this section, refer to the Creating Business Terms topic.
    Miscellaneous
    Use this section to associate enterprise tags with business terms. Click Tags and select an existing tag or enter a tag name to create one on the fly.
    For example, in the following image, a tag, "In situ", is created and assigned to a business term.
    Business Term Image Uploader
    Use this option to upload an image corresponding to a business term.
    To upload an image, click and, then browse and select the image.

Comparing Business Terms

To compare business terms while viewing them, follow these steps:

  1. On the Assets Details page, click Add to Compare.
    The Assets to Compare sheet appears.
  2. On the Business Term List, select other assets that you want to compare, and click Add to Compare.
    The selected asset is added to the Assets to Compare sheet.

    You can click to remove assets from the list.
    Repeat this step to add more assets for comparison.

    You can select up to five assets for comparison.

  3. Click Compare.

    The Compare Assets page appears and displays the side by side comparison of asset properties for the selected assets.

    For more information about comparing assets based on properties, refer to the Comparing Business Assets topic.