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Ingest Descriptions from dbt

When you run a dbt ingestion workflow, Collate pulls model and column descriptions from your dbt artifact files and adds them to the matching tables and columns in Collate.

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Which File Does Collate Use?

Collate reads descriptions from manifest.json by default. If you also provide catalog.json, the catalog descriptions take priority.

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Override Existing Descriptions

By default, Collate only fills in descriptions for tables and columns that don’t have one yet — it won’t touch descriptions you’ve already written in Collate. Turn on the Update Descriptions toggle in the dbt ingestion configuration if you want dbt to be the single source of truth. When enabled, dbt descriptions overwrite any existing descriptions in Collate.