How do I assign a glossary term at the column-level in the new Purview portal?

Question

Hi

I've created glossary terms in a business domain. How do I assign these terms to a data asset in the Data Catalog?

Are these terms available to use outside of a business domain? The glossary term picker is empty. See screenshot below:

Answer 1

@Chad Weber - I'm glad that you were able to resolve your issue and thank you for posting your solution so that others experiencing the same thing can easily reference this! Since the Microsoft Q&A community has a policy that "The question author cannot accept their own answer. They can only accept answers by others ", I'll repost your solution in case you'd like to accept the answer .

Ask: How do I assign a glossary term at the column-level in the new Purview portal?

Solution: The issue is resolved. We resolved this issue by creating glossary terms in the classic portal. Once the terms were added using the classic portal, it was available to assign at the asset and schema level.

If I missed anything please let me know and I'd be happy to add it to my answer, or feel free to comment below with any additional information.

If you have any other questions, please let me know. Thank you again for your time and patience throughout this issue.

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Answer 2

@Chad Weber - Thanks for the question and using MS Q&A platform.

I've created glossary terms in a business domain. How do I assign these terms to a data asset in the Data Catalog?

Add, remove, and view data product links all from within your glossary term.

Here are the steps to add data product links all from within your glossary term:

1. Select the business domain where your term resides.
2. Select the Glossary terms button.
3. Search or browse for the glossary term and select it.
4. Select the Related tab.
5. To link your term to a data product, select the + Link data product button.
6. Search for the data product, or data products, you want to link and select them.
7. You can remove any selected products from the Selected list by selecting the X button next to their name.
8. To add your selected data products, select Add.

For more details, refer to How to create and manage glossary terms (Preview).

Are these terms available to use outside of a business domain?

No, terms are not available to use outside of a business domain

Terms are created under business domains to create context specific to each part of your organization. Both sales and marketing might use the same term to mean different things, and your business domains help your team to differentiate between those meanings.

Once created, terms map to data products, to provide context for those data products, and to provide specific data governance based on business context. It's easy to understand how a term and it's definition provide business context to a data product, but how do they provide data governance? Terms are an active part of Microsoft Purview that provide data governance by now containing policies.

Example: I had created a term in business domain named: Analytics and it only available inside the business domain.

And it's not available in business domain named: Databases

For more details, refer to Glossary terms in Microsoft Purview (Preview).

Hope this helps. Do let us know if you any further queries.

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