Titles and Descriptions Report¶

Alation Cloud Service Applies to Alation Cloud Service instances of Alation

Customer Managed Applies to customer-managed instances of Alation

The Titles and Descriptions report is part of Analytics Stewardship. It supplements the Lexicon capabilities. The report shows the number of auto-suggested titles and descriptions that are confirmed, unconfirmed, populated manually, or are still blank.

Note

The Titles and Descriptions report isn’t available in the New User Experience.

To open the Titles and Descriptions Report:

Open the Curate and Govern page.
Under Curate, click Titles and Descriptions Report to open the report.

You can analyze how many Titles and/or Descriptions of data objects are:

Guessed by Lexicon but unconfirmed by a user
Guessed by Lexicon and confirmed by a user
Hand-populated by a user

For more about auto-titling, see Lexicon.

The default view is for the current month. As you mouse over the dates in the chart, the donut chart to the right of the bar graph will display values for the selected date, including:

Guessed and Unconfirmed
Guessed and Confirmed
Hand-Populated
Blank
Total

The values the donut chart displays relate to the date that can be seen directly above the donut chart.

Apply Filters to the Titles and Descriptions Report¶

The page displays two charts. By default, the top chart is for Titles and the lower chart is for Descriptions. Filtering is separate for each chart.

Chart Type¶

The first filtering option in both charts is to select the chart type. It can be either Title or Description.

Data Objects¶

The data objects available in the Data Objects filter include schemas, tables, and columns. The value data objects means All.

Data Sources¶

The data sources filter allows you to choose from all data sources that are visible to the logged-in user. The default view is All data sources.

Date Range¶

The date range can be This Month, Last 6 Months, Last Year or a Custom Range.

To select a custom range, enter dates into the FROM and TO fields or choose them in the date pickers, then click Apply.