Organizing assets with folders

Use folders to organize assets in your projects.

You can create nested folders, and there is no limit to the number of folders you can create.

Prerequisite
Folders must be enabled by a project Admin. See Enabling folders.
Required permissions
You must have the Admin or Editor role in a project to create or manage folders and their contents.

Restrictions and usage notes

  • After you enable folders, you cannot disable them.
  • Collaborators with the Editor role cannot enable folders.
  • Collaborators with the Viewer role cannot enable, create, or edit folders.
  • Folder organization does not persist when you import or export assets.

Project with folders

Assets types that you can move into folders

You can move the following assets from the root folder into a folder you’ve created:

  • Connections

  • Data assets

  • Data Refinery flows

  • Jobs

Creating folders

Collaborators with the Viewer role cannot create folders.

To create folders:

  1. From the Assets tab of your project, select the Folders tab in the All assets pane.
  2. Click the New Folder icon New Folder, then click New folder.
  3. Enter a name for the folder, and click Create.

Moving assets into folders

To move assets into folders:

  1. From the Assets tab of your project, click the overflow menu next to an asset and select Move to folder. To move multiple assets at one time, select multiple assets on the Assets tab and select Move to folder.
  2. Select the folder and click Move.