# Articles

[](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/talend-data-catalog/Content/user-guide/custom-models/articles.htm)

## 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](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/talend-data-catalog/Cloud/Content/user-guide/administration-and-system-management/manage-metamodel.htm) 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](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/talend-data-catalog/Cloud/Content/user-guide/glossary/create-a-glossary.htm) by creating a model in a folder in the repository and including it in configurations.

**Steps**

1. Sign in as a user with at least the **Metadata Management** [capability object role assignment](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/talend-data-catalog/Cloud/Content/user-guide/administration-and-system-management/manage-object-roles.htm) on the [Configuration](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/talend-data-catalog/Cloud/Content/user-guide/manage-metadata/analyze-the-log.htm) you are in.

2. Go to **Manage > Configuration** in the banner.

3. Click the ![](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/talend-data-catalog/Cloud/Content/user-guide/custom-models/img/image1096.png) **Add** under **Manage Configuration** and select the model type you wish to instantiate. In this case it is **Articles**.

4. Enter a **Name** and **Description** for the instantiated custom articles model and click **OK**.

Information note

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**.

![](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/talend-data-catalog/Cloud/Content/user-guide/custom-models/img/image1165.png)

![](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/talend-data-catalog/Cloud/Content/user-guide/custom-models/img/image1166.png)

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**

1. Sign in as a user with at least the **Metadata Management** [capability object role assignment](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/talend-data-catalog/Cloud/Content/user-guide/administration-and-system-management/manage-object-roles.htm) on the Articles model in which you wish to edit articles.

2. [Navigate](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/talend-data-catalog/Cloud/Content/user-guide/explore/index.htm) to the Articles model.

3. Click **+CREATE**.

4. Enter a **Name** and **Description** for the article and click **OK**.

5. Now you may edit the HTML field that is the content of the article.

Information note

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](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/talend-data-catalog/Cloud/Content/user-guide/explore/index.htm) to the **Finance Data Governance** model.

![](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/talend-data-catalog/Cloud/Content/user-guide/custom-models/img/image1167.png)

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:

![](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/talend-data-catalog/Cloud/Content/user-guide/custom-models/img/image1168.png)

Click OK.

## Delete Articles

You may delete articles with the **Metadata Management** [capability object role assignment](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/talend-data-catalog/Cloud/Content/user-guide/administration-and-system-management/manage-object-roles.htm).

**Steps**

1. Sign in as a user with at least the **Metadata Management** [capability object role assignment](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/talend-data-catalog/Cloud/Content/user-guide/administration-and-system-management/manage-object-roles.htm) on the Articles model in which you wish to edit articles.

2. [Navigate](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/talend-data-catalog/Cloud/Content/user-guide/explore/index.htm) to the Articles model.

3. Hover the mouse over the article to delete and click the red X.