Articles
Overview
Descriptions can be associated with any harvested object (e.g. imported table) or custom object (e.g. a glossary term). They now benefit from the above new bundled WYSIWYG HTML editor with object and user mentions but are not intended to be full length documents.
Articles are designed for business users to develop and collaborate on
any kind of documents such as review reports, change requests, white
papers, user guides, overviews, etc. Articles are implemented by a new
predefined object Article
with an predefined attribute content
of HTML data type.
A new pre-installed Standard Extension Articles
package allows users
to create new models of type Articles
which contains the Article
object type (just like a Glossary contains Terms). Manage >
Metamodel allows one
to extend the Article object type with custom
attributes or links to other custom objects. Articles benefit from the
same capabilities as any other custom objects including search
(Metadata Query Language (MQL)),
security, as well as the ability to have comments, mentions, and even
may operate under workflow.
Create an Articles Custom Model
To create articles you must create a custom model for them to be contained in. You may create any number of these models to contain various collections of articles. You create a custom model just as you would a glossary by creating a model in a folder in the repository and including it in configurations.
Steps
Sign in as a user with at least the Metadata Management capability object role assignment on the Configuration you are in.
Go to MANAGE > Configuration in the banner.
Click the
Add under Manage
Configuration and select the model type you wish to instantiate.
In this case it is Articles.Enter a Name and Description for the instantiated custom articles model and click OK.
There is a Workflow tab available for custom models. Please refer to the specific examples for glossaries (a type of custom model) for full details on how to set up and use workflow with a custom model.
Example
Sign is as Administrator and go to MANAGE > Configuration. Click the click Add (plus sign) under Manage Configuration and select Articles.
Give it a NAME of Finance Data Governance
and click OK.
Create and Edit Articles
Once you have created Finance Data Governance as an Articles custom model, you may add individual articles to it.
Steps
Sign in as a user with at least the Metadata Management capability object role assignment on the Articles model in which you wish to edit articles.
Navigate to the Articles model.
Click +CREATE.
Enter a Name and Description for the article and click OK.
Now you may edit the HTML field that is the content of the article.
There may be workflow enabled available for custom models. Please refer to the specific examples for glossaries (a type of custom model) for full details on how to set up and use workflow with a custom model.
Example
Sign in as Administrator and navigate to the Finance Data Governance model.
Click +CREATE.
You will enter part of the text for this article
"Data Definition Governance Workflow Process
Background
Data governance is the critical enterprise wide activity, managed by the Office of the CIO, responsible for the cradle to grave management and dissemination of data definitions provided in a readily usable fashion...."
Please format it using the HTML based editor as follows:
Click OK.
Delete Articles
You may delete articles with the Metadata Management capability object role assignment.
Steps
Sign in as a user with at least the Metadata Management capability object role assignment on the Articles model in which you wish to edit articles.
Navigate to the Articles model.
Hover the mouse over the article to delete and click the red X.