Publishing the data lineage to Alteryx Connect

We have been looking at a data catalog where all the individual assets, such as the tables or fields, have the information already populated. For this information to be available, you need to populate the data asset information into Connect. There are three methods for populating the Connect data assets:

• Loading metadata directly from Connect
• Using the prebuilt workflow apps
• Creating a custom-built data source with the Connect APIs

These methods allow you to populate your Connect data dictionary with the information that exists in your data asset. For databases, Alteryx will extract any comment information in addition to tables, field names, and field types. Let's take a look at them one by one.

Loading metadata directly from Connect

The first method for loading metadata is directly from Alteryx Connect. To initialize the metadata collection from Connect, there are two prerequisites:

• You must be...