Configuring Entity and Attribute Name Format - trillium_discovery - trillium_quality - Latest

Trillium DQ Repository Administrator Guide
Product type
Software
Portfolio
Verify
Product family
Trillium
Product
Trillium > Trillium Discovery
Version
Latest
Language
English
Product name
Trillium Quality and Discovery
Title
Trillium DQ Repository Administrator Guide
Copyright
2024
First publish date
2008
Last updated
2024-10-18
Published on
2024-10-18T15:31:00.219841

You can configure how entity and attribute names are formatted when creating a new entity.

Change type Description
Introduced in version 17.3 Configuration to retain entity and attribute name format.

By default, names are formatted to appear in a user-friendly way that is easy to read. This means any punctuation is replaced with spaces, and the words are properly cased. However, this behavior can be changed to keep the original names as they appear in the data source.

To modify the setting and keep original names

  1. Open the config.txt file located at,
    • Windows: ..\MBSW\17\etc\config.txt
    • Linux: ../metabase/etc/config.txt
  2. Set the value of the keep_source_names parameter in the key public section to 1 (0 is the default value).
    For example:
    key public {
    value keep_source_names 1
}
  3. Save your changes to the file.
The setting is global across all repositories and affects only new entities being created. It can be switched back and forth as needed, leaving all previously created entities unchanged.

While the setting is active, all printable characters in entity and attribute names are preserved as they are in the source. Non-printable characters will be changed to underscores, including ASCII control characters with codes 0-31 and 127, as well as Unicode control characters.