Managing assets in projects (Watson Studio and Watson Knowledge Catalog)
You can manage assets in a project by adding them, editing them, or deleting them.
- Add data assets
- Add assets from a catalog
- You can add other types of assets by clicking New asset or Import asset on the project's Asset page.
- Manage data quality definitions
- Manage data quality rules
- Mark data assets in project as sensitive
- Manage metadata imports
- Manage metadata enrichments
- Masking flow assets
- Edit assets
- Download assets
- Delete assets
- Search for assets
- Publish assets to a catalog
Edit assets
You can edit the properties of all types of assets, such as the asset name, description, and tags.
The role you need to edit an asset depends on the asset type. See Project collaborator roles.
- 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 Prepare data 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.
- Assets that you create with tools
- Click the name of the asset on the Assets page to open it in its tool.
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 or Editor 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.
Depending on the type of asset, other related assets might also be deleted.
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Parent topic: Projects