Trace the semantic definition of a field in a report to understand its meaning.
Three methods are used to provide an answer to a definition lookup and apply in the following order:- direct semantic link from a term in a business glossary
- data flow lineage to the data warehouse or other data stores in the physical architecture and semantic up to a business glossary
- name matching between business glossary term and field name
Before you begin
- You have been assigned an object role with at least the Metadata Viewing capability.
- A business glossary has been created and populated.
- Glossary terms are mapped semantically to the corresponding data in the technical architecture.
Procedure
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Click the List tab to open the detailed column level
lineage report.
For example, you need to know the meaning of CustomerPaymentType in the Customer Payments report. CustomerPaymentType is defined by the Customer Payment Type glossary term.
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Click the Diagram tab to
open a graphical view of the lineage.
In this example, the blue dashed line represents the semantic link from the report field to the glossary term.
