Information Catalog Manager Administration Guide

Grouping objects by subject

You can organize the Information Catalog Manager objects by grouping them together. By nesting the groupings, you can organize your information catalog hierarchically. The Information Catalog Manager shows the highest-level groupings in the Subjects window, represented by the Subjects icon in the Information Catalog window.

You can group objects by using the Information Catalog Manager windows or tag language.

Grouping objects by subject by using the Information Catalog Manager windows

1. Either create a Grouping category object (see Creating an object for details) or locate an existing Grouping object in one of the following windows:

   Search Results

   Collection

   Found In

   Subjects

   Linked With

   Tree View

2. Right-click the object.
3. Click Update grouping.

   The Update Grouping window opens.

   
   

4. To add objects to the grouping:
   1. Click Search.

      The Define Search - Grouping window opens. Use this window to search for objects you want to include. Objects that fit your search criteria are returned to the Update Grouping window in the Available objects list.

   2. From the Available objects list, click one or more objects.
   3. Click > to move selected objects to the Objects in grouping list.
5. To remove objects from the grouping:
   1. From the Objects in grouping list, click one or more objects.
   2. Click < to move selected objects out of the Objects in grouping list.
6. Click Update.

   Changes are displayed as you make them from a Tree view, but you must close and reopen any other window to display your updates.

   To close the window without changing the grouping, click Cancel.

Grouping objects by subject by using tag language

To create groupings of the Information Catalog Manager objects with tag language, specify a Contains relationship between an object categorized as Grouping and an object categorized as Grouping or Elemental.

1. To add an object to a grouping, enter the following line in your tag language file:

   :ACTION.RELATION(ADD)
   

2. To delete an object from a grouping, enter the following line in your tag language file:

   :ACTION.RELATION(DELETE)
   

3. Specify the Contains relationship by typing the following lines. Specify the type of the Grouping object for SOURCETYPE and the object type that you want to include in the group for TARGETYPE:

   :RELTYPE.TYPE(CONTAIN) SOURCETYPE(short_name_of_object_type)
        TARGETYPE(short_name_of_object_type)
   

4. Type the following lines, filling in the UUI properties and property values of the Grouping object:

   :INSTANCE.SOURCEKEY(UUI_short_name(value_for_property)
        UUI_short_name(value_for_property)
        UUI_short_name(value_for_property))
   

5. Type the following lines, filling in the UUI properties and property values of the object you want to include in the grouping:

        TARGETKEY(UUI_short_name(value_for_property)
        UUI_short_name(value_for_property)
        UUI_short_name(value_for_property))
   

After each keyword, type an appropriate value within the parentheses:

Keyword

Value

SOURCETYPE

The short name of the source object type.

TARGETYPE

The short name of the target object type.

UUI_short_name

The short name of a UUI property of the object type.

Completely enclose in parentheses all the properties and values after the SOURCEKEY and TARGETKEY keywords.

Figure 7 shows an example of tag language to add an object to a Grouping object. The example assumes that you already created the source and target objects.

Figure 7. Adding an object to a grouping with tag language

ACTION.RELATION(ADD) RELTYPE.TYPE(CONTAIN) SOURCETYPE(TABLES) TARGETYPE(COLUMN) INSTANCE.SOURCEKEY(DBNAME(DGWDATA) OWNER(USERID) TABLE(AR_HISTORY)) TARGETKEY(DBNAME(DGWDATA) OWNER(USERID) TABLE(AR_HISTORY) COLUMN(BAL30))

In this example, the object identified by DBNAME(DGWDATA) OWNER(USERID) TABLE(AR_HISTORY) COLUMN(BAL30) is placed in the Grouping object identified by DBNAME(DGWDATA) OWNER(USERID) TABLE(AR_HISTORY).