Explore hierarchy views for technical asset types

Data Integrity Suite
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Data Integrity Suite
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You can configure technical asset types for the various technologies used across your infrastructure and applications. This enables you to track detailed technical metadata for assets. There are two ways to understand and create technical assets: the Containment Hierarchy and the Inheritance Hierarchy. These two views provide a comprehensive spectrum for exploring technical asset relationships and offer structural and semantic insights. Together, they help you plan asset placement, reuse fields efficiently, and maintain governance consistency across technical asset types.

To begin creating technical assets using the hierarchy views:

  1. Navigate to Configuration > Governance > Technical Assets.
  2. Use the view switcher to choose one of the following:
    • Inheritance Hierarchy: A view that shows how an asset type inherits fields from base types. This helps you understand and control which properties are available on derived assets.
    • Containment Hierarchy: A tree view that shows how assets contain or group other assets. It enables you to add, edit, or remove parent container asset types and to see the hierarchical structure at a glance.

  3. On first visit, all nodes are collapsed. You can interact with the tree to expand or collapse nodes as needed. Your expanded/collapsed state is saved per user and persists across page refreshes and sign-in sessions.

  4. Selecting a node or a row in either hierarchy opens a persistent side panel. The panel shows the asset’s standard details and the relevant relationship types of containment and/or inheritance, so you can navigate to related assets without leaving the detail context. The side panel also provides quick navigation links to related assets, keeping you in a connected workflow.

  5. You can also search across the hierarchy:
    • The search applies to all asset types within the hierarchy.
    • Matching asset types are displayed and the matched text is highlighted.
    • If a search term matches a child, the parent is expanded to reveal the child and the matching text.
    • The search criteria and the expanded/collapsed state persist as you navigate to other areas of the workspace. The state persists across logout/login sessions.