Dashboard Data Lineage
This document will cover the basics of the CM EvolveIT Dashboard Data Lineage. Data lineage can be represented visually to discover the data flow/movement from its source to destination via various changes and hops on its way in the enterprise environment, how the data gets transformed along the way, how the representation and parameters change, and how the data splits or converges after each hop.
1. Log in to the dashboard with a valid dashboard user id.
There is a built-in administrator that can be used for setup initially.
Built-in administrator (Default Password is ‘admin@1234!’)
Once logged in the dashboard view will display.
2. Data Lineage Project View.
Create Project:
There is an option to create a New Project from the project explorer.
Enter the project name and fields that need to be analyzed.
Click Add Field for selecting the necessary fields
View Project
Search for the project and click the View project option(Eye Icon).
There is an option to Run the process by clicking the Play icon. Once the process completes the running, there is an option to show the result.
There is also an option to Edit the fields added to the project.
Graph Viewer will be displaying the usage of the fields selected in the project.
Click on each data record to get the information like Program name, Item Type.
Double click on the data record to get the analysis information on a separate tab
3. Data Lineage Field Search.
Choose Field Search option under Data Lineage. There is an option to create new search criteria or view the existing criteria.
Enter the search criteria with search mode as Contains, Exact, Starts with, ends with, and regex options. Click the Search option to list the fields satisfying the criteria.
Choose all the fields and create a new project. This project can be viewed, processed from the Project View option