Search your asset

Search through your assets with Catalog

Search bar

Search is a powerful feature in Catalog.

At any moment you can press the following shortcuts to execute a search:

• From a mac: ⌘ + K

• From a PC: Ctrl + K

Quick Search Results

The search is performed through all elements in the Catalog App.

Quick search shows the top results in within Tables, Dashboards, Visualisation models and Knowledge

Quick search results

Advanced Search Results

You can access advanced search results by clicking "Show more"

Advanced search results allow to filter by result type:

• Tables

• Columns

• Dashboards

• Visualisation models: Explores (Looker), data sources (Tableau), data sets (PowerBI & Sigma), and apps (Qlik)

• Fields

• Knowledge

Additionally, in the advanced search you can also filter results by:

• is Certified

• has PII

• Tags - columns and assets tags

• Owner - Individual contributor or teams

Advanced search results

How is search performed ?

Asset	Quick search	Advanced search
Dashboards	Dashboard name	Dashboard name Dashboard description Dashboard external description Applied tags
Visualisation models	Visualisation model name	Visualisation model name Visualisation model description Visualisation model external description Applied tags If dashboard field check box is checked: Field name & label Field label
Dashboard fields	N/A	Visualisation model name Field name Field description Field external description
Tables	Database name Schema name Table name	Database name Schema name Table name Table description Table external description Applied tags If column check box is checked: Column name Column description Column external description
Columns	N/A	Column name Column description Column external description
Knowledge pages	Knowledge page name	Knowledge page name Knowledge description Knowledge applied tags

Left Hand Menu

One of Catalog's key feature is to allow you to search for your data. You can either search through the left hand menu or through the search bar, accessible from everywhere in the App.

Catalog organises your assets in 3 categories:

• Data: the elements in your warehouses. The hierarchy is defined by:

  • Warehouse technology

    • Database

      • Schema

        • Table

• Dashboards: the elements in you data visualisation tools

  • Visualisation technology

    • Inherited hierarchy from the technology

• Knowledge: widely used KPIs definition and documentation