Manage asset

Create an asset

In the Metadata menu of the main control panel, select ‘Asset’ to access the Asset screen.

The main page listing all existing assets will be displayed.

Click on the ‘+ Asset’ button in the top left corner to access the Creation screen.

Main tab

Field	Description	Technical name
Identifier	^{This field is mandatory.} Primary key of the object, it uniquely identify the object of this kind in TIBCO Cloud™ Metadata. The identifier is automatically generated and cannot be modified.	id
Name	^{This field is mandatory.} Technical name of the asset. For the assets retrieved automatically with metadata harvesting corresponds to the technical name of the resource in TDV and cannot be modified.	name
Label	^{This field is mandatory.} A word of set of word which will be used in TIBCO Cloud™ Metadata to represent the object.	label
Description	Statement or account mainly aiming to clarify or develop the label in more words, it can also bring further unstructured information about the object.	description
Asset type	^{This field is mandatory.} Specific fields can appear or become mandatory according to the asset type.	assetType
Data type	Type of data carried by this asset.	assetDataType
Field type	Deprecated field to be ended in V2.	dataType
Logo	^{This field is mandatory.} Image used to represent the asset in card grid, hierarchical view and details view. If no logo is defined, the standard icon representing the asset type will be displayed.	logo
Documentation	Set of attachments concerning the current object. Files can be of any extension but their size is limited to 50 MB.	documentation
Data quality score	Global data quality score of this asset.	dataQualityScore
Comment	Comment defined in the source system.	comment
Parent asset	The structure of an asset is represented by this composition. The current asset is a component of the parent asset. If the parent asset is removed, the current asset is removed as well. If no parent is defined, it means that the current asset represents the highest level compound.	parent
Owner	The group of persons designated as owning the asset.	owner
Instance	^{This field is mandatory.} Concrete installation of the system containing or exposing the asset.	instance
Data element	Logical definition of the structure and properties of the data contained in or provided by the asset.	dataElement
Data element automatically assigned	^{This field is mandatory.} Indicates if the link to the data element has been set automatically by the automatic classifier. To be set to "No" to lock the current value. If set to "Yes", a future execution of the automatic classifier could modify the link.	dataElementAutoAssigned
Sample File	File containing a sample of data coming from this asset. This file is used for automatic classification to compare the data sample to data dictionaries.	samplefile
Disabled	^{This field is mandatory.} If the asset has been registered during an automatic metadata harvesting, it will be disabled if a newer harvesting does not find it anymore. It can also be disabled manually. When disabled, an asset cannot be used as a source to provision a new view.	isDisabled
Mandatory	Indicates whether a value is mandatory or not.	mandatory
Last Introspection Date	Last date when the asset has been introspected by the automatic metadata harvesting.	lastIntrospectionDate
Assets	List af all assets composing the current asset.	assets
Referenced assets	List of all referenced assets.	refersTo
References	List of all asset referencing to this asset.	referredBy
Incoming flows	List of all incoming data flows.	incomingFlows
Outgoing flows	List of all outgoing data flows.	outgoingFlows
Datasets	List of all datasets contained or exposed by this resource.	datasets

Source tabs

Other tabs allow you to locate the asset you are creating.

When you have completed the creation of your asset, click on the ‘Save and close’ button.

Asset’s flows

If you have clicked on the ‘Save’ button, you can define more attributes from tabs.

Field	Description
Incoming flows	Incoming flows from other asset
Outgoing flows	Outgoing flows to other asset
Datasets	Asset's datasets

When you have completed the creation of your link, click on the ‘Save and close’ button.

Incoming and outgoing flows

Represent one or multiple flow(s) from other(s) asset(s) to the selected current asset.

Field	Description	Technical name
Source asset	^{This field is mandatory.} Asset providing data.	sourceAsset
Target asset	^{This field is mandatory.} Asset consuming data.	targetAsset
Label	A word of set of word which will be used in TIBCO Cloud™ Metadata to represent the object.	label
Data transfer	Indicates whether data is transfered or just exposed.	dataTransfer
Flow type	The type of the flow between the two assets.	type
Caching	Indicates whether data is cached.	caching
Protocol transformation	Indicates if there is a protocol transformation between the source and the target.	protocolTransformation
Parent flow	The exchange of data can be part of a higher-level definition of the data exchange.	parent
Documentation	Set of attachments concerning the current object. Files can be of any extension but their size is limited to 50 MB.	documentation
Children	All flows composing this flow.	children

When you have completed the creation of your flow, click on the ‘Save and close’ button.

Modify an asset

If you want to modify a current asset you have to click on the “Edit” button on the top left corner.

edit button asset

You will see the asset form pre-filled with existing data. You can modify what you want.

edit asset

In the form view, you may see embedded tables. Each embedded table represent an association (way to link your current asset to other elements). In this case, you can :