Overview

A business domain represents a subset of all your data assets. Domains are useful to provide a view of specific business areas such as Finance, Marketing or Sales. It can also provide different access to different teams such as the data team, data consumer team etc.

Users in a given domain will be able to focus on this particular scope.

Manage Domains

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Prerequisite

Only users with the Admin system role can manage domains.

Create a Domain

To create a new domain:

• Hover the Settings menu on the navigation bar and click the Domains entry
• Click on the + New domain button at the top right hand corner of the page
• Name your domain
• Add a description to your domain
• Click the Select data assets button
• This opens up the Data Catalog in a modal. Leverage filters, search, and sorting capabilities to narrow down your search and use checkboxes to select the assets you want to add to your domain.
• Once you're done selecting your assets, click the Save button to close the Data Catalog modal and click the Save domain button to save your domain.

Note: An asset can belong to multiple domains.

Edit a Domain

To edit a domain:

• Hover the Settings menu on the navigation bar and click the Domains entry
• Find the domain you're interested in updating in the domain list
• Click the pencil icon at the far right hand corner of the domain of interest
• Perform the appropriate changes
• Click the Save domain button to save changes on your domain.

Delete a Domain

To delete a domain:

• Hover the Settings menu on the navigation bar and click the Domains entry
• Find the domain you're interested in deleting in the domain list
• Click the bin icon at the far right hand corner of the domain of interest
• Click the Delete button on the modal.

Ownership & Domains

Users can only be owners of assets they have access to through domains. When modifying or deleting domains, keep in mind that it might impact assets ownerships: deleting a domain can for instance prevent a user from accessing some assets they own and consequently remove the said ownership link between the user and assets.

Read more about ownership & domains here.

Assign Domains to Users

You can assign one, multiple, or all domains to your users on the Users page.

Switch Between Domains

Users assigned to multiple domains can leverage the dropdown located at the top of all Sifflet application pages to switch between the various domains they are associated to.