Copying Entity Metadata to a New Entity - trillium_discovery - trillium_quality - Latest

Trillium Control Center

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Software
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Verify
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Trillium
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Trillium > Trillium Discovery
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Latest
Language
English
Product name
Trillium Quality and Discovery
Title
Trillium Control Center
Copyright
2024
First publish date
2008
Last updated
2024-10-18
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2024-10-18T15:02:04.502478

After you have loaded data into an entity and applied all of your compliance checks, you can copy this information, including business rules, to a new, dynamic entity.

If you plan to copy metadata from more than one entity that includes joins, you may get undesired results. As a best practice to avoid generating unnecessary joins, group the entities into a Baseline Analysis project and copy the metadata for the entire project.

Table 1. Example Scenarios:

Scenario

Permanent Joins

Entities in Repository

Joins owned by Entities

1. Assume that you have two entities named A and B and a permanent join on A and B. A-B

A

B

A owns A-B

B owns A-B

2. Next, assume that you copy metadata from entity A (including all permanent joins) to entity X and import data into X.

A-B

X-B

A

B

X

A owns A-B

B owns A-B and X-B X owns X-B

3. Next, assume that you copy metadata from entity B (including all permanent joins) to entity Z and import data into Z.

A-B

A-Z

X-B

X-Z

A

B

X

Z

A owns A-B and A-Z B owns A-B and X-B X owns X-B and X-Z Z owns A-Z and X-Z
Note: Most likely the join between X and Z is the one that is most appropriate, but the joins X-B and A-Z resulting from this process are a mixture of old and new entities.

To copy metadata to a new entity

  1. From the Navigation View, right-click the entity that has the desired metadata (including business rules).
  2. Select Copy metadata to a new entity. Use the following table to decide which option to select:

    Choose...

    To Copy...

    Self Joins

    Only permanent self joins.

    All Joins

    All permanent joins.

    No Join

    No joins.

    A new entity is created with the same name and a different reference number. The entity icon indicates that this is a dynamic entity and does not contain data, only metadata.

  3. (Optional) Add data to the empty entity.