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Data Products

Data products package curated data assets under a single entity with defined ownership, type, and visibility. Use them to make data discoverable and accessible within your organization’s data marketplace.

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Add a Data Product

Follow these steps to create a new data product in Collate.

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Step 1: Access Data Products

1. In the left navigation bar, click Data Marketplace > Data Products.
2. Click Add Data Product. The Add Data Product panel opens.

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Step 2: Enter Data Product Details

• Cover: Upload a banner image for the data product page (SVG, PNG, JPEG, or GIF; max 800×400 px; 5 MB).
• Icon and Color: Select an icon and color to visually identify the data product in the catalog.
• Name (required): Enter a unique identifier. Letters, numbers, hyphens, and underscores only; maximum 128 characters.
• Display Name (required): Enter a human-readable label shown throughout the Collate UI.
• Description (required): Write a description that explains the data product’s purpose, the data it contains, and any relevant context for other users.

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Step 3: Add Tags and Glossary Terms

• Tags: Select classification tags to categorize the data product.
• Glossary Terms: Link the data product to relevant glossary terms.

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Step 4: Configure Data Product Settings

• Domain (required): Select the domain this data product belongs to.
• Type (required): Select the data product type from the ODPS-aligned taxonomy — for example, Dataset, Raw Data, Derived Data, Reports, or Analytic View.
• Visibility (required): Control who can discover this data product:

  Visibility	Access
  Private	Visible to the creator only.
  Invitation	Visible to invited users.
  Dataspace	Visible within the dataspace.
  Organisation	Visible to all users in the organization.
  Public	Visible to anyone.

• Portfolio Priority: Indicate the data product’s importance in your portfolio — Critical, High, Medium, or Low.

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Step 5: Assign People

• Owners: Select users or teams responsible for managing the data product.
• Experts: Select individual users with deep knowledge of the data product.
• Reviewers: Select users who review and approve changes to the data product.

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Step 6: Add Custom Properties

If your administrator has configured custom properties for data products, complete any additional fields shown at the bottom of the panel.

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Step 7: Save Data Product

Click Save. The data product appears in the Data Products list.

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Add a Data Product from a Domain Details Page

If a data product belongs to a specific domain, create it directly from that domain instead:

1. Navigate to Data Marketplace > Domains, then open the domain the data product should belong to.
2. Click Add and select Data Products.
3. Follow Add a Data Product steps 2 to 7.

In the Data Products tab, you can view the list of all data products related to the selected domain.

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Add Data Assets

1. From the Data Products list, click the data product to open its detail page.
2. Click Add Assets.
3. In the Add Assets panel, search for assets or use the filters (Entity types, Owners, Tag, Tier, Service, Service Type) to narrow results.
4. Select the assets to include in the data product.
5. Click Save.

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Input Ports and Output Ports

Beyond general assets, a data product can declare which assets it consumes and which it produces or exposes: an ODCS/ODPS-aligned data contract concept that makes a data product’s data flow explicit for lineage-style visualization.

• Input Ports: Data assets this data product consumes.
• Output Ports: Data assets this data product produces or exposes to consumers.

To add ports:

1. On the Data Products page, select a data product and go to the Input/Output Ports tab.
2. In the Input Ports or Output Ports section, click Add Port.
3. Search for and select the assets to add, then click Save.

The tab also offers a Ports Lineage view, which visualizes input and output ports as a lineage-style graph alongside the data product.

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Data Product Details Page

Open a data product from the Data Products page to view its details, manage its assets, and track changes.

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Data Product Tabs

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Data Product Actions

• Add Assets: Opens the Add Assets panel to add more data assets to this data product. See Add Data Assets.
• Votes: The thumbs-up and thumbs-down icons let users upvote or downvote the data product, helping the team signal its quality and trustworthiness at a glance.
• Version: Shows the data product’s current version number. Click it to open the Version History panel. See Data Asset Versioning for details.
• Request Access: On the Documentation tab, the Data Access Request panel lets you request access to the data product’s assets. See Data Access Requests.

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Manage Data Assest

From a data product’s detail page, click the ⋮ (more actions) menu next to the Version count to manage the data product itself.

• Announcements: Set up banners to inform your team of upcoming maintenance, updates, and deletions. See Announcements.
• Rename: Rename the Name and Display Name for the data product.
• Style: Change the icon and badge color for the data product.
• Edit Metadata: Change the type, visibility, and portfolio priority of the data product. See Configure Data Product Settings.
• Delete: Permanently delete the data product and its metadata.
• Export as ODPS: Export the data product as an Open Data Product Standard (ODPS) v4.1 YAML file.
• Import from ODPS: Import a data product definition from an ODPS v4.1 YAML file into this data product:
  1. Click Upload YAML File to select a .yaml/.yml file, or paste the YAML directly into the text area.
  2. Optional: Click Validate to check the YAML before importing.
  3. Choose how the import applies to this data product: Merge (default) combines the YAML’s fields with the existing data product, or Replace overwrites them.
  4. Click Import.
  The imported YAML must resolve to this same data product (matched by name or display name); importing a YAML for a different data product is blocked.

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View Data Assets by Data Product

After adding data assets to a data product, view data assets for various data products on the Explore Assets page.

1. In the left navigation bar, click Explore.
2. In the Data Assets dropdown, select Data Product.
3. All data products appear in the results. Click any data product to view its assets, documentation, and metadata.

Watch the video below to see data products in action.