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Any best practices for using the Purpose function in Ataccama One (webapp)? I see that it is recommended for monitoring projects but when I create a monitoring project I want to be able to search for that tag. Any tips for searching just based on the purpose tag? I’m very new to Ataccama so any and all tips would be appreciated!

I’m trying to read the file name of a file so I can write it in an email within a Workflow. I’m using the “Operate On File” task. The Operation I selected is “INFO”. I then point to the Source File. Next I’m trying to determine which variable I use to supply to the Send Email task. The Operate On File Documentation says you can use task variables and the example they give is “name”, “localName”, “size”, and “timestamp”. When I try using these variables in the Send Email task they just come across as blank in the email (variables appear to be null). Here is the body of the email I’m using: Name = ${name}localName = ${localName} Two questions:Does any one happen to know what I’m doing wrong in above?Additionally is there a way to pull out a file name within a Plan. I’m using the “Excel File Reader” step. I want to pass along the file name in the flow so I can use it later on. Thanks!

Hi, I’ve just started data profiling with Ataccama One so please bear with me.I have data with technical IDs (e.g. “000123456”, “009876543”,...) in a csv that I imported. The IDs are however interpreted as a number.How exactly can I change the attribute type to text? I have done so when importing the file: but it seems to go to numbers nonetheless.The original file has comma-separated values that are all between double quotes. Thanks for any help! edit: typo

I am getting the error “Column Name cannot be empty” under StringValue. When I click on the drop down, there’s no options available. 

What is LDAP?LDAP is directory that stores companies usernames, passwords, email addresses, connection information and much more. It is usually used due to it's ability to allow hundreds of active connections at any given point.In terms of configuration and connectivity, in Ataccama we authenticate/authorize through a 3rd party tool called Keycloak. Items to consider prior to connecting to LDAP - Best PracticeYou first need to understand how your organizations Active Directory is setup. Some pre-requirements needed can include things such as:Do you have a list of groups you need to import? If the answer is no, you may want to speak to your engagement manager from Ataccama to discuss in detail. In short, LDAP groups is a way where we can map Ataccama Roles to a single group. This will heavily assist in ease of maintenance going forward and not leave your devops team stuck doing manual work such as adding/removing new users each time someone is added/removed from LDAP. Once you have dec

Hi, is there a method to make a “wait n seconds” between 2 steps?Thanks a lot

I opened the on-prem AtaccamaONE environment this morning and was looking at recent (auto) profiled catalog items. A majority of them are not found - the error is “Catalog item not found” and the provided explanation is “This catalog item doesn’t exist anymore or someone has revoked your access”. Neither of these cases should be true as I am the only one who currently works in the environment and I’m the one who launched the data discovery on 3/09. This is a recent error - I have not seen this before. Any help you could provide would be appreciated.Thanks.

GeneralIt is strongly recommended not to place an Eclipse Project directly inside the git repository.That means, avoid having .git directory and .project file at the same level - instead, place the project into a sub directory.On the other hand, there are particular config files which you typically keep at the same level as .git directory:  .gitattributes and .gitignore. We use them to control some processes when working with Git. Note: settings in these files will override any git global settings on your computer.Example of recommended setup is as follows: .gitattributesThe file provides a possibility to control certain operations in the git repository. Especially it is important to keep the line endings (prevents Git from normalizing them) as provided in the Ataccama default Eclipse Project content because:Prevents the "The project signature is invalid" issue resulting into a state when you are not able to see/work with the Project at all (entire project tree is not visible). Prevent

How can we use functionality like ‘for’ and ‘while’ loop in detection rule field while writing/creating rules for capturing data/records.

Hello, I’m new with Ataccama and I have a simple problem. I want call a Rest service:https://api.bulkemailverifier.com/api/a/v1?key=xxxxxxxxxx&email=myemail.comI’m using the JSON Call step and If I put the full URL with my email it’s working, but now I want read the emails forma txt file and I don’t know how to make the url dynamic.In the step I have 3 parameters: URL: Resource  I set it as https://api.bulkemailverifier.com/api/a/v1?key=xxxxxxxxxx&email=Method: GETURL: HERE IS WHERE i DONT KNOW WHAT TYPE. I have tried a lot of combinations without successThe input file has one column with the mail: src_mailThanks 

Hi,Am exploring Ataccama MDM and would like to know if Ataccama MDM supports Multiple language in matching and data maintenance. Appreciate your help. Thanks.Vinoth

How can we download files from remote path ( connected through vpn) on to local?I tried with Operate on File component but it is not working.Is there any work around for it?

Hi,When importing a flat file, if the data has double quotes or single quotes or some special characters then they are automatically being replaced with ‘?’s. This is not as expected. This is the same issue for all encoding formats. Could you please suggest how to fix this? Thanks,Kranthi 

Enterprise Data Governance as the management of data across its pipeline - from production to consumption (and retirement). How to enable our “data fellows” to leverage on data to save money, save time and reduce risk?What are the key elements to success? What are your thoughts? 

I was wondering if there is a way in Ataccama that I can move my rows data into columns?I’ve data as such:Element:          Dimension:                 Values:         Code: XYZ            Validity                        200               678XYZ            Completeness              250               678 YUP            Completeness            300                555 HIO             Accuracy                     400                100 I’d like it to look like:Element:          Validity:                 Completeness:        Accuracy;         Code: XYZ                 200                               250                         250               678 YUP                500                                300                        300                555 HIO                 200                                450                        400                100 Thank you!  

Simply explained, reference data is data that serves as the model for all other data throughout an organization. It is contained within tables and databases, which help bridge one source system to another, and provides the foundation for the entire data architecture. Together with the initiative set forth by the overall data governance program, reference data maintains consistent data across all departments and allows for source system inter-communication. Reference Data tables are entities that compose the framework of the reference data architecture, providing lists of values for each department and the company as a whole. They contain either the backbone data in its base form (central authority) or data that is a derivative of the base-form data (tables used in the various branch systems throughout the enterprise).Each department within a company works with table data fields in a particular format that suits their processes. Although department A might deal with the same product as

Data Stories provides a wide range of charts, it includes also Pie and Donut ones, even though I do not recommend using them, and the same applies to a Gauge chart. Let's look at the reasoning why and why I'd recommend using a (stacked) bar chart instead.Space usageIn data visualization (reporting, data storytelling) you have limited space you can use. Your task is to fill the limited space with the most value for the end viewer/user. Note, most value does not necessarily mean most charts, sometimes one curated chart is far better than five. The problem with Pie, Donut and Gauge charts is that they use more space in comparison to an alternative that provides the same value - a bar chart. Sales distribution on a Pie ChartMore space is used due to 2 reasons:Pie and Donut charts use Area to give value to a single category. Bar chars use just distance. An Area just takes more space All these charts are circular, which creates unnecessary space around the chart objectBellow find a better al

I am trying to build a component rule where I can compare primary_id from catalog table A to another table B using join and send primary_id existing in both tables, existing only in catalog table A and existing only in B table in the one report. Also checking if that is possible through Lookup

We would like to have a user group in AtaccamaOne so that when new people join, we do not have to manually add them for access of rules, catalogs or projects. Simply adding them to a user group should give them all the necessary access. How to create such a user group?

Hi there,Imagine Ataccama is the primary source of truth (transactional) for PII information inside a Financial Service company. Now, we would have different ONBOARDING systems (one for each Financial Line of Business that we offer). When a new person tries to create a profile, the Onboard system would (while the user is still looking into the APP) SYNCHRONOUSLY call an Ataccama API with meaningful data that we collected from this person, say: (Full Name, DoB, Insurance Number / Any other ID document, Email(s), Phone(s))m then Ataccama would quickly do the “Match” and return if this person (according to the information we provided) is likely to ALREADY exist. If the probability is higher than some threshold (Ie. 95%), it would also return the MASTER UUID for this person in Ataccama (Lookup key). Then the onboarding would ask this person to log in, as this person ALREADY exists in our Ataccama Database.Can Ataccama do the MATCH and return the % probability in near real-time? Instead of

Did you know that you can reorder or add custom columns to Listings within ONE? Here is an example where we move the validity score to be the second column. You could also disable various columns here if you would like. To do this, you would add the following in Debugging Tools, for more information, please see our documentation. { "_type": "entity.page.listing", "children": { "_type": "relationships.hierarchyListing", "enableSelection": true, "columns": { "name":{ "name": "Name" }, "dqEvalTermAggr": { "name": "Overall Validity" }, "type": { "dataPath": [], "name": "Type", "after": "dqEvalTermAggr", "renderer": { "_type": "glossary.termType.tableCell" } }, "abbreviation":{ "name":"Abbreviation", "after":"type" } } }} 

1 entity Party→ 2 entities (Person/Organization)or 1 entity Contact → 2 entities (Phone/Email) etc Pros Clean Data Model (on attribute level)In general, we have only columns that are needed for a particular entity (Person) or (Organization). This means that, for example we do see the company_name attribute on the Person records, etc. So in general we have fewer columns in the tables. This could be especially important for the generated MDM native services format (WSDL in SOAP, or all attributes used in the REST API). The consumers of the web services only see attributes per definition of the given model entity and don’t see any irrelevant attributes (similar to the data hiding/encapsulation principle in the Object-Oriented approach).This can also help minimize the area of impact in case of a required model change (the impact to online API change can be countered with custom .online services exposed as wrappers to the MDM native services keeping the API stable with a fixed set of attrib

IntroductionWe did an internal performance PoC for Streaming. We are reading messages (“msg”) from Kafka or Java messaging service. Parameters In order to tune the performance of the streaming we need to modify 2 main parameters on MDM side:settings.count = how many messages we need to consume in one single batch settings.timeout_s = what is the maximum timeout to wait for this number of messages Average duration of the task vs Records per second We are not aiming for the throughput (records per second) but we are aiming for the average duration of the task. The goal is to run it under 1 sec (1000ms). In various scenarios we have to increase the settings.count parameter starting from 1, 20, 30 etc. Scenarios Below are the different scenarios of using different settings for various tasks/transactions in MDM within 10 mins (600sec)For example of timeout of 1 sec and settings.count = 1000 (scenario , that means that we try to consume 1000 msg at once within this 1 sec. We will consume wha