Create, edit, or delete metadata forms - Amazon DataZone

Create, edit, or delete 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 a 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 metadata forms in your Amazon DataZone domain, you must be a member of the owning project who has the right credentials.

To create 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 Create form.

  4. Specify the metadata form name, description, owner and then choose Create form.

To edit 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 locate the metadata form that you want to edit.

  4. On the metadata form's details page, expand Actions, and then choose Edit.

  5. Perform your updates to the name, description, owner fields, and then choose Update form.

To delete a metadata form, complete the following steps:

Note

Before you can delete a metadata form, you must remove it from all asset types or assets to which it is applied.

  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 locate the metadata form that you want to delete.

  4. If the metadata form that you want to delete is enabled, disable the metadata form by choosing the Enabled toggle.

  5. On the metadata form's details page, expand Actions, and then choose Delete.

  6. Confirm deletion by choosing Delete.