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The pages in this section will help you get up and running with Select Star quickly.

If you are setting up your organization for the first time, you can watch this video to see how to get through the onboarding flow.

The steps in this guide are additional steps you can take at any point as an to enable your organization to start documenting, organizing, and discovering your data with Select Star.

Connect your first data source to Select Star.

Identify accounts used for maintenance or by other tools so your popularity will be more accurately reflected.

Hide test tables and dashboards from view in Select Star so you can focus on the most relevant data to your organization.

Invite data team members from your organization as the main point of contact for each dataset.

Add documentation to your datasets so everyone can easily find the data they need.

After you've done all that, you can check out Next Steps.

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1. Data Source Setup
2. Mark Service Accounts
3. Hide Unwanted Datasets
4. Invite Owners
5. Add Documentation
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