Attributes on relationship
Can the asset model capture metadata about relationships between assets ? specifically by modelling attributes on relationship between two assets ?
Lalithkumar Ragu
Posted 5 months ago · Edited 5 months ago·Last reply 3 months ago
6 comments
Hock Khoo
·3 months agoPossibly a use case for Complex Relations.
Heather Fara
·5 months agoYes, update the metamodel. You can define new relationship types, attributes, and relations easily. Time to study documentation!
Lalithkumar Ragu
OP5 months agoHi Heather, Thanks for the response and I guess I was not clear with my question, Lets say, We have a relationship between two assets, is there a possibility to capture some property on the relationship. Example - I have a Business Term and it has related a Column, Can I add a flag on the relationship between Business Term and the relationship indicating that relationship is authorized/non Authorized ?
Heather Fara
·5 months ago · EditedThe short answer is yes you can. You could add a custom attribute to the data model for approval. You could restrict edits to subject matter experts on the asset who wouldn't need approval. Ultimately, I would probably display it in a custom business diagram where that true/false attribute shows up on the asset (either the business asset or the physical data asset).
Miklos Palfi
·3 months agoHi Lalithkumar, I am interested what solutions you have chosen for this? We also want to label relationships between business terms to describe how those terms relate to each other. A few of these relations are quite standard and used often, but there are many only used a couple of times (the "long tail"). Creating custom relationships for each of these would blow it up unnecessarily. We want to keep these labels in natural language without much formalism to leave room for creative descriptions. Have you taken the custom attribute path?
Lalithkumar Ragu
OP3 months agoThere was no option to create custom meta attributes on the relationship itself, so we had to take the less ideal approach of modelling it as an attribute on one of the nodes in the relationship. Apologies if this doesn't help you.