Using Talend Studio, you can
easily search and locate data records "attached" to the corresponding business entities
in the MDM Hub.
More than one search option is available to specify the search criteria and to narrow
down your search for the data records you want to view. You can:
- use a time-based filter (from/to dates),
- select a business entity in which to search data records,
- type in the unique key for the business entity you want to search for,
- type in a search keyword.
Before you begin
You have already connected to the MDM server in
Talend Studio. A data container exists and is
populated with data records.
About this task
To browse a data container:
Procedure
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In the MDM Repository tree view, expand the
Data Container node.
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Double-click the data container you want to browse.
The data container editor opens with a master data container view.
Note: If the
data container is configured with the staging storage, a staging data
container view will also be available.
The
following steps describe how to browse a master data container.
The steps
for browsing a staging data container are similar to those for browsing a
master data container, except that the Use Full Text
Search check box is grayed in the staging data container
view.
You can set one or several search criteria to narrow your search on the
returned data records. Note that, if you are using a SQL database, you
cannot combine a full-text query with other search criteria.
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Click the From arrow to display a calendar where you
can select a start date for the data records created in the selected data
container.
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Click the To arrow to display a calendar where you can
select an end date for the data records created in the selected data
container.
Note: It is possible to click the browse button directly after setting the time
range to base your search only on one criterion. Otherwise, you can use one
or more of the other search criteria to narrow down your search on the
returned data records.
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From the Entity list, select a business entity from the
list to search data records only in the selected business entity.
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In the Keys field, enter the unique key for the entity
you want to search.
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In the Keywords field, enter a search keyword to include
only matching values in the returned data records.
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If you want the record list to show the task identification, select the
Show Task ID check box.
Some of the data records in the MDM Hub are the result of merging /resolving
different information coming from heterogeneous sources. Resolving such
information is done through
Talend Data Stewardship and then the master
data record is written in the hub using some MDM components in a
Talend
Job.
For further information about editing the task
identification, see Editing a task identification from the data container.
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Click the
icon.
The lower part of the editor lists all data records that match the search
criteria along with their creation dates, the business entities they are created
in and their unique keys.
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Double-click a given record to open up a dialog box that displays the data
record details.
You can also click the Source tab at the top of the
dialog box to view the data record in its XML format or modify the data
record.
After updating the data record, if needed, select the Fire a
change event (update report) and triggers check box so that
the modified record will be written into the
UpdateReport and eligible Triggers will be
executed directly.
After selecting the Fire a change event (update report) and
triggers check box, if required, select the
Enable verification by before processes check box
to enable the verification of the modified record by the Before
Saving processes. For more information about Process types,
see Process types.