Glossary Workflow

By default, a glossary will have no workflow requirement (including no approval process). In this simple state changes made to the glossary are reflected immediately throughout the system. This is a very useful mode for organizations that do not want the complexity of a workflow process. It is also useful for organizations when they are first building and populating a glossary and related semantic mappings, encouraging rapid building of the glossary and crowd-sourcing.

Talend Data Catalog also provides a very flexible and complete set of possible workflow and publication processes that you may employ. Choose to enforce workflow carefully, as once selected it cannot be undone, though many of the specifics may be changed.

When your company would like to have a formal glossary development process that involves multiple users you can enable the glossary workflow. The workflow is a prepackaged sequence of glossary activities around term proposal, review, acceptance, publishing and/or depreciation. It is a flexible process that can be customized to require only publishing activity, approval with or without review, approval and review by one or multiple users, etc.