Collections

Select Star has two mechanisms to organize content - Collections and Tags.

Collections are designed to highlight your data domains and data products in an organized way. They are used to organize important documentation, dashboards and tables into data domains (a department or a project) that data consumers and creators can browse to discover data. Collections can be nested to layer the organization of information.

Collections can be applied to high-level datasets like documentation (metrics, glossary terms, pages), tables, and dashboards, but not columns.

Creating Collections

Collections can be created and edited by organization admins, but any data manager can add assets to a collection. Click Collections in the left side bar and once you're in the collections page, click New Collection to create a new one.

• Business Owner: This defaults to the user creating the collection, but can be updated to any user or team. Both business and technical owners will receive notifications when assets are added to a collection.

• Technical Owner: If needed, you can set a technical owner for a collection

• Parent Collection: Organize collections into a nested folder like structure by setting the Parent collection on any collection

• Description: The description of the collection, which will appear on the All Collections page

Be sure to add a meaningful description to help consumers understand what the assets in the collection can be used for.

Once you create the collection you will be able to add assets to it.

Adding Assets to a Collection

You can add assets to a collection three ways

1. From the collection

2. From the asset

3. In bulk from asset list pages

From the Collection Page

To ad assets to a collection directly from a collection, click on Add Asset in the top right hand side which will open a modal to find what you want to add.

In the modal you can search and filter to specific asset type you're looking for.

You can search for one or more assets and then click Add to add them to the collection.

From the Asset Page

On an asset page i.e. a document, a table, or a dashboard, click on the Collections icon in the header to select a collection to add the asset to.

From List Pages

You can also add asset in bulk from the databases, schema, BI folder or All Docs pages. Simply select the assets you want to add to a collection and click the Edit Collections button to bulk add to a collection.

Editing and Deleting a Collection

You can edit or delete a collection from the collection page by clicking the ... menu in the top right, and selecting either Edit or Delete.

Edit will let you change the name, owners, parent collection or description. Note - you can also change the description and owners from the Overview tab.

Delete will delete the collection, including any sub-collections.

API Access

You can use our Select Star API to create and manage collections as well as add and remove assets from collections.