Finding and viewing assets in catalogs (IBM Knowledge Catalog)
You can find assets in catalogs on the Browse page. To access them, you must be a collaborator in the catalog.
You can find assets in these ways:
Watch the following video on how to quickly find assets in a catalog.
This video provides a visual method to learn the concepts and tasks in this documentation.
Browsing for assets
Before you search, you can browse through these types of assets:
- Recently added assets
- Recommended assets
- Highly rated assets (3 stars or more)
Recommended assets
Click Recommended to see up to 20 assets that are recommended for you.
Based on properties common to the assets that you viewed, created, and added to projects, such as tags, data classes, data types, asset owners, and asset types, IBM Knowledge Catalog uses Watson Machine Learning to derive a list of assets that you haven't accessed yet.
The more assets that you access, the better the recommendations are.
Searching for assets
If you have the required permissions, you can search for assets within catalogs.
Select the catalog from the global search scope, then enter keywords in the search field for matches in these asset properties:
- Tags
- Name
- Description
- Business terms that are associated with assets
- Column names
You can filter results by asset type, source, business terms, and tags.
You can sort results by name, asset type, or date added. To search for a specific phrase, surround the phrase with double quotation marks. For example, if you search for "My asset", your results contain exactly that phrase.
You can also search for assets across all catalogs and projects that you belong to.
Stop words are ignored during searches.
The following is a list of stop words:
"a", "an", "and", "are", "as", "at", "be", "but", "by", "for", "if", "in", "into", "is",
"it", "no", "not", "of", "on", "or", "such", "that", "the", "their", "then", "there",
"these", "they", "this", "to", "was", "will", "with"
Only assets that contain the search term at the beginning of the asset name appear in the search results. Partial matches do not appear in the search results.
If search keywords contain any of the following special characters, the search filter doesn't return the most accurate results: . + - && || ! ( ) { } [ ] ^ " ~ * ? : \. Search only for the keyword after the special
character to obtain the most accurate search results. For example, instead of AUTO_DV1.SF_CUSTOMER, search for SF_CUSTOMER.
Viewing assets
To view an asset in a catalog, click its name. A set of pages about the asset is available:
In the About this asset side panel, you can access basic information about an asset. Show or hide the panel by clicking the information icon.
Asset information include the following details:
- Asset owner
- Privacy
- Format and size
- Source
- Tags
- Date added For assets that were added through lineage import, a link to the lineage information in MANTA Automated Data Lineage is provided. When you first click the link, you must log in. You can either provide your credentials or, if single sign-on is configured, you can click IBM-IAM. After you log in, more lineage details are available in the MANTA Automated Data Lineage UI. For more information about how to work with MANTA Automated Data Lineage, see MANTA Automated Data Lineage for IBM Cloud Pak for Data Visualization User Documentation.
Information about asset activities is available in a side panel. To view the activities panel, click the roadmap icon 
.
The activities panel shows the history of the events that are performed on the asset.
Overview page
On the asset Overview page, you can access the governance artifacts that are assigned to the asset and relationships to other assets.
For data assets, the Columns section displays the following details for each column:
- Quality score
- Description
- Assigned data classes
- Assigned business terms
For structured file types, such as CVS files, that contain columns with the same name, only the first instance of each column is displayed in the Columns table on the asset Overview. Duplicate columns appear on the Profile and Preview pages.
If you have permission, you can edit asset properties and asset relationships on this page.
Asset page
On the Asset page, you can access a preview of the contents of the asset if the asset type supports previews and you have the required permissions.
The preview might show cached information. To ensure that the latest data is displayed, refresh the page by clicking the refresh button.
If the asset has an associated file that is stored in the catalog storage, you can download the file.
For added security, data masking or row filtering is also provided based on the permissions of the person who is viewing the data. If you see a lock icon 
next to the column name of a relational data asset, the data in the column is masked by a data protection rule. The owner of the asset is not affected by data protection
rules and always sees the original values.
If you are denied access to an asset by a data protection rule, you can see only the metadata of the asset. For example, when you click a blocked asset in a catalog, you can see the Overview page and the About this asset panel, but not the preview of the data on the Asset page.
Access page
On the Access page, you can access information about the following details:
- Asset owner
- Privacy setting
- Aasset members
If you have permission, you can control access to an asset on this page.
Review page
On the Review page, you can access the ratings and reviews of the asset by catalog collaborators, rate the asset, and write a review.
Lineage page
On the Lineage page, you can access information about the flow of data from data sources, through jobs and stages, and into databases, data files, business intelligence reports, and other assets. For more information, see Lineage.
The Lineage page is available only if you have knowledge graph installeded with IBM Knowledge Catalog.
Profile page
On the Profile page, you can access profile information for data assets about the contents of the asset.
Feature group page
On the Feature group, you can access information about the available features in the asset feature group. For more information, see Managing feature groups.
Learn more
Next steps
- Adding a catalog asset to a project to refine or analyze it
- Profiling a data asset
- Editing asset properties
- Managing feature groups
- Adding asset relationships
- Controlling access to an asset
Parent topic: Catalog assets