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This article outlines how to search and browse Microsoft Purview Unified Catalog to find data products.
Prerequisites
To search for data products, you need a Catalog Reader role.
How to search
You can search for data products by using keywords or natural language (preview). To find data products that best fit your business needs, use Search with natural language (preview). Searching with natural language supports data products created in English, French, and Spanish languages, and search terms in the corresponding languages.
The data product search is based on these attributes:
- Data product name, description, and business use.
- Name and description of associated governance domain, glossary terms, CDEs, and OKRs.
- Name and description of contained data assets.
To search for data products in Unified Catalog, select Discovery, then select Data products.
In the search bar, search by keywords, partial keywords, or natural language search:
Partial keyword match: Enter a partial keyword, and the search returns results that match the partial term. For example, entering cust returns results that match customer.
Exact match with double quotes: Use double quotes to search for an exact phrase. For example, "customer profile" searches for the phrase as a single unit, rather than matching customer and profile separately.
Natural language (preview): Select the magnifying glass icon at the end of the search bar, then enter a description of the data you need to find, then press Enter. Examples:
- I need three years of North American revenue data from finance department to analyze sales trends.
- Find certified master data for customer accounts, which includes customer ID, name, and address.
- I'm working on improving customer satisfaction. Show me Power BI reports of customer rating and feedback.
A list of search results appears. Select a data product to view its details page. Hover over a search result to see why it was returned. The highlight shows which attributes matched your search query, such as name, description, or term.
You can filter search results by governance domain, data product type, owner, glossary terms, or critical data elements.
Note
Search isn't case sensitive, but spaces within search terms matter. Underscores and other non-space characters are treated as part of the keyword.
Explore data products by governance domain
You can browse data products in Unified Catalog by governance domain.
- In the Microsoft Purview portal, go to Discovery > Data products.
- Select a governed domain under Explore data products by governance domain, or select Explore all to navigate to a governance domain.
- When you select a governance domain, a list of its data products appears. Select a data product name from the list to view that product's details page.
Explore data products by filtering on custom attributes
When you explore data products by governance domains, you can filter your view by business concept attributes.
- In Unified Catalog, go to Discovery > Data products.
- Select Explore all. You arrive at the Explore data products by governance domain page.
- Select Add filter.
- At Filter, select an attribute name from the dropdown list.
- At Operator, select a condition, such as Equals or Starts with, which varies based on the kinds of values allowed by the attribute.
- At Value, enter your value.
- Select Apply.
View data product details
A data product details page contains a description, use case, terms of use, and contacts. The page lists the glossary terms, critical data elements (CDE), and data assets that are associated to the data product. Select an asset, term, or CDE to display a flyout with a View details button for further details.
View data asset details
Select a data asset from the data product details page to view a flyout pane with more information. Select View details on the flyout pane to open the details page for the data asset.
The data asset details page includes a description and owner, lists the data asset columns, and displays lineage information. The page also lists other data products that contain the data asset.