Defining Associations for Business Policies

By default, you can associate business policies with business rules, business terms, and columns. You can control the glossary object types available for association using the Business Glossary Manager settings page. For more information, refer to the configuration topic.

To define associations for business policies, follow these steps:

  1. In the list of business policies, under the options column, click to edit a business policy.
    The business policy opens in edit mode.

  2. Go to the Associations tab.

  3. In the object type (business rules, business terms, and columns) list, select the object type that you want to associate with the business policy.
  4. Click .
    The Relationship Associations page appears. Based on the object type that you select, it displays a list of available business rules, business terms, or columns.

  5. From the list, select the objects that you want to associate to your business policy.
    If you know the object name, use the Search (partial matches) field to look up for it.
  6. Click Save.
    The selected objects are associated to the business policy and added to the list of associations for an object type.
    You can define as many associations as required.