DATA DICTIONARY FOLDER in DESIGNER

[sbellinialt]

Would be nice if in Designer customer's may want to upload and reference  a " DATA DICITIONARY - METADATA REPOSITORY file when working with various input source to transform data . 

Organizations that are mature in their data governance strategy implement special software that extracts, manages and provides access to data dictionary of data assets in multiple databases such as  ERWIN to maintain schema for enterprise. 

Within DESIGNER access to a file METADATA REPOSITORY held in DESIGNER customer may easily select a list of columns  fields or attributes from that file to manipulate data elements using DESIGNER and provide all the relevant information required they wish to massage the data.

Possible Attributes that may be in data dictionary file:

Table name

Column Name

Data Type
Foreign Table

Source

Table Description

Sensitive Data

Required Field

Values

[SeanAdams]

Hey @sbellinialt - not sure if you've seen Alteryx Connect but this does do some of what you're talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-TE_HRiBVs and with Alteryx Analytics Hub, much of this functionality is becoming more tightly integrated with server and designer.