The Easiest Way to Share Your Information Assets

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You can now share elements from the SAS Information Catalog via a URL. You can share an information asset (SAS Viya 2020.1.5 stable cadence), or share catalog search results, the asset sample data tab, column details or the discovery agents page (SAS Viya stable cadence 2021.1.3).

Asset Sharing Use Cases

The “deep-linking” feature is available as of SAS Viya 2020.1.5 stable cadence. You can use the deep link feature to perform the following tasks:

Enrich a SAS Visual Analytics report with the asset URL.
Share the asset URL in an email, chat or text message.
Add the asset URL as a link into another application.
Add the URL to a browser and bookmark the page.
Store the URL for later use.

The URL

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https://namespace.node.domain.com/SASInformationCatalog/details/~fs~catalog~fs~definitions~fs~3a0d5d7b-a1c5-44c6-bfad-0d2174236172~fs~instances~fs~a1dfa088-c670-d240-8d3c-ba122379b9a2

The link points to a definition instance. These two concepts come from the Catalog API data model. See the Catalog API documentation for even more details.

Enrich a SAS Visual Analytics report

When you click the link, you are redirected to the SAS Information Catalog. Here you can consult all the calculated metrics. You can assess in a few seconds what the structure and the quality of the data looks like, if there is any private data, which time period and geography is covered.

The end users get extra confidence in the report when they can consult the catalog metrics.

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Share the asset URL in an email, chat or text message

It becomes easy to share elements from the SAS Information Catalog and to pave the way to towards collaboration in the catalog.

Add the asset URL as a link into another application

You could add the link to the asset in SAS Business Data Network, in the Links section. As a reminder, SAS Business Data Network is a business glossary. The web application is part of SAS 9.4 Data Management Advanced bundle.

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More Sharing Use Cases

Note: As of SAS Viya stable cadence 2021.1.3, the deep linking feature will be available in the following SAS Information Catalog tabs and windows:

The Search Results window: you can share a search, pointing to one or more assets.

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the Descriptive Measures view in the Column Analysis tab
the Metadata Measures view in the Column Analysis tab
the Data Quality Measures view in the Column Analysis tab
the Column Graphs view in the Column Analysis tab

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the Sample Data tab

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the Discovery Agents window

Conclusions

You can now share elements from the SAS Information Catalog via a URL. You can share an information asset (SAS Viya 2020.1.5 stable cadence), or share catalog search results, the asset sample data tab, column details or the discovery agents page (AS Viya stable cadence 2021.1.3).

You can use the URL to enrich a SAS Visual Analytics Report, add a reference to the asset in a third party application or simply share by email, chat. The “deep-linking” feature is the door opener for more collaboration features. I am looking forward to seeing them in the SAS Information Catalog!

SAS Documentation

SAS Information Catalog - Access Asset Details from the Browser URL
Catalog API data model
Catalog API documentation

Acknowledgements

Thank you Vincent Rejany and Kumar Thangamuthu.

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