Managing assets in analytics projects (Watson Studio and Watson Knowledge Catalog)
If you have the Editor or Admin role in a project, you can manage assets. You can see all assets on the Assets page in a project.
- Add data assets
- Add assets from a catalog
- Add operational and configuration assets by clicking Add to project and then the name of the asset type.
- Mark data assets in project as sensitive
- Manage metadata imports
- Masking flow assets
- Edit assets
- Download assets
- Delete assets
- Searching for assets
Edit assets
You can edit the properties of all types of assets, such as the asset name, description, and tags. Tags are text labels that are common across the platform and can be added by any user. A tag consists of one string. It can contain spaces, letters, numbers, underscores, dashes, and the symbols # and @. Use a comma to separate tag values.
What else you can edit depends on the type of asset.
Data assets from files, connected data assets, or imported data assets
Click the data asset name to open the asset. For some types of data, you can see an asset preview. To edit the data asset properties, such as its name, tags, and description,
click the corresponding edit icon (
) on the information pane. To create or update a profile of relational
data, click the Profile tab. To cleanse and shape relational data, click Refine to open the data asset in Data Refinery.
Connection assets Click the connection asset name to edit the connection properties, such as the name, description, and connection details.
Notebooks
Click the notebook name to see the notebook in preview mode. To edit the notebook with the Jupyter notebook editor, click the edit icon ()
next to the notebook name either on the Assets page or from the notebook preview. To edit the notebook with the JupyterLab IDE, click Launch IDE > JupyterLab from the Assets page.
Metadata import assets Click the metadata import asset name to open the asset. If at least one import job was run, you can see a list of the imported assets. To view details about the metadata import configuration, click the information icon at the top. To update the configuration, click Edit metadata import.Masking flow assets Click the masking flow asset name to open and edit the masking flow. If at least one masking flow was created, you can see a list of the masking flows in the project. Click the Jobs tab to view the masking flows that were run as jobs. See Creating masking flows.
Other operational assets
Click the name of the operational asset to open it in the appropriate editor tool. To edit the asset properties, such as its name, tags, and description, click the corresponding edit icon () on the information pane.
On the Assets page, the lock icon (
) indicates that another collaborator is editing the asset or locked the asset
to prevent editing by other users.
- Enabled lock: You can unlock the asset if you locked it or if you have the Admin role in the project.
- Disabled lock: You can't unlock a locked asset if you didn't lock it and you have the Editor or Viewer role in the project.
When you unlock an asset that another collaborator is editing, you take control of the asset. The other collaborator is not notified and any changes made by that collaborator are overwritten by your edits.
Delete an asset from a project
If you have the Admin role, you can delete assets from the project.
To delete an asset from a project, choose the Delete or the Remove option from the action menu next to the asset on the project Assets page. When you delete an asset, its associated file, if it has one, is also deleted. However, when you delete a connected data asset, the data in the associated data source is not affected.
To remove an information asset from the default catalog or data quality projects, you first have to remove it from Information assets view. The synchronization process propagates the delete from Information assets view into the default catalog. However, you can remove assets from the default catalog or projects if they are not synchronized.
Parent topic: Projects