Create, edit, or delete fields in metadata forms - Amazon DataZone

Create, edit, or delete fields in metadata forms

In Amazon DataZone, metadata forms are simple forms to augment additional business context to the asset metadata in the catalog. It serves as an extensible mechanism for data owners to enrich the asset with information that can help data users when they search and find that data. Metadata forms can also serve an mechanism to enforce consistency to all assets being published to the Amazon DataZone catalog.

A metadata form definition is composed of one or more field definitions, with support for boolean, date, decimal, integer, string, and business glossary field value data types. For more information, see Amazon DataZone terminology and concepts. To create, edit, or delete fields in metadata forms in your Amazon DataZone domain, you must be a member of the owning project who has the right credentials.

To create a field in a metadata form, complete the following steps:

  1. Navigate to the Amazon DataZone data portal using the data portal URL and log in using your SSO or AWS credentials. If you’re an Amazon DataZone administrator, you can obtain the data portal URL by accessing the Amazon DataZone console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/datazone in the AWS account where the Amazon DataZone domain was created.

  2. Navigate to the Catalog menu in the top navigation bar next to Search.

  3. In the Amazon DataZone Data Portal, choose Metadata forms and then choose the metadata form where you want to create field(s).

  4. On the form's details page, choose Create field.

  5. Specify the field name, description, type, and whether this is a required field, and then choose Create field.

To edit a field in a metadata form, complete the following steps:

  1. Navigate to the Amazon DataZone data portal using the data portal URL and log in using your SSO or AWS credentials. If you’re an Amazon DataZone administrator, you can obtain the data portal URL by accessing the Amazon DataZone console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/datazone in the AWS account where the Amazon DataZone domain was created.

  2. Navigate to the Catalog menu in the top navigation bar next to Search.

  3. In the Amazon DataZone Data Portal, choose Metadata forms and then choose the metadata form where you want to edit field(s).

  4. On the form's details page, choose the field that you want to edit, then expand Actions, and choose Edit.

  5. Make your updates to the field name, description, type, and whether this is a required field, and then choose Update field.

To delete a field in a metadata form, complete the following steps:

  1. Navigate to the Amazon DataZone data portal using the data portal URL and log in using your SSO or AWS credentials. If you’re an Amazon DataZone administrator, you can obtain the data portal URL by accessing the Amazon DataZone console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/datazone in the AWS account where the Amazon DataZone domain was created.

  2. Navigate to the Catalog menu in the top navigation bar next to Search.

  3. In the Amazon DataZone Data Portal, choose Metadata forms and then choose the metadata form where you want to delete field(s).

  4. On the form's details page, choose the field that you want to delete, then expand Actions, and choose Delete.

  5. Confirm deletion by choosing Delete.