Notes provide a way to collaborate by highlighting issues, concerns, checkpoints, and the progress of your data quality initiatives. Notes are added at the data source and attribute level to help track and document your analysis. Notes can be exported and shared with team members and other departments.
The Discovery Center provides a template for building notes that allows you to incorporate and follow the best practices of your site and to help you group notes by related topics, priorities, and business groups.
Use notes to establish the following best practices:
- Request and provide information to business users. Insert into the note's subject line topic labels such as ASSUMPTION, ISSUE, ALERT, or QUESTION. When the issue is resolved, or the questions answered, you can edit the note with result or answer.
- Distribute information about data objects. Add detailed information about a data source or attribute. For example, add a note to an attribute regarding data analysis that may be of interest to another business unit. Comments allow a ongoing conversation with others about questions and concerns.
Each note has areas in which you define:
- Subject
- Class and subclass
- Business and project impact
- Note text
You can also add comments and view a history of changes.