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The Microsoft Purview Data Catalog is changing its name to Microsoft Purview Unified Catalog. All the features will stay the same. You'll see the name change when the new Microsoft Purview Data Governance experience is generally available in your region. Check the name in your region.

This article outlines how to browse and search for published business concepts such as glossary terms, critical data elements, and OKRs in the Microsoft Purview Data Catalog to quickly find the concept you're looking for.

As a consumer of the catalog, you can not only discover data products through the search experience but also through the enterprise glossary experience that links different business concepts to data products. This experience has three tabs for glossary terms, critical data elements and OKRs, and gives you a consolidated view of all the published concepts within. Once you find the concept you're looking for, you can view the related data products and request access to the ones you need.

Prerequisites

To browse the enterprise glossary, you need the data catalog reader role.

Search for data products in the catalog

You can browse and search for published business concepts within the data catalog.

  1. In the Microsoft Purview portal, open the Data Catalog.
  2. Select the Discovery drop down menu in the left navigation pane.
  3. Select the Enterprise Glossary tab.
  4. Select the Glossary terms or Critical data elements and OKRs tab to learn more about published concepts under each of them.

    Note

    • Any parent/child relationships can be visualized in a tree-like hierarchy within the Glossary terms tab by selecting Tree in the views drop-down.
    • All published glossary terms are displayed in the list view but terms with unpublished parents are not displayed in the tree visualization.
  5. In the search bar, you can search for any concept by name.
  6. You can also sort the results in ascending or descending alphabetical order, and filter results by governance domain, owner, or any other available filter.
  7. You can select each published concept and view its related concepts such as data products.

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