The Engrafo Data Catalog browser is wery intuitive. In this section we will show you how to browse and edit the data catalog
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AAdminister Data Usage documentationsUnder Admin → Administration of data usages documentations you can manage all the created documentations image-20230516-102729.png It is possible to hide, edit and delete documentations. Finding documentations is done by search on different categories or
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BBrowsing the Engrafo Data CatalogTo navigate the Engrafo Data Catalog you can use the tree-structure on the left side. The structure is Category → Database → Schema → Table → Column In the picture below the Table “Cities” is clicked and on the right you get a box named “Table” and a list
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CConfigure metadata documentation layout for Engrafo Data CatalogA vital part of getting value from your data catalog is to have the right information. This might sound obvious, but it means it must be easy to configure your solution continuously, without the need for specialist developers who are often in short supply
Configure metadata documentation layout for Engrafo Data Usage
A vital part of getting value from your data discovery platform is to have the right information at your fingertips. This might sound obvious, but it means it must be easy to configure your solution continuously, without the need for specialist developers
Create sample spaces
Creating data usage documentation As a general rule it is highly recommended to use the Engrafo automation options to create new data usage information pages and automatically load as much information as possible this way. But many occasions may arise where a manual creation is needed. Lu
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DData Lineage from Data CatalogFrom the Data Catalog you can see the data lineage for the element you chose. So, if you for instance navigate to a table, you can click on “Data lineage” in the top right menu. Now you will get a list of data usage documentations ( see Data Usage overvie
Data Usage overview and quick guide
Exploring what you organizations data is used for and how it is all connected, is a very intuitive journey with Engrafo! On the first overview page on the right hand side, you have the ability to specifically search Engrafo for how data is used. You can e
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EEditing the Engrafo Data CatalogTo navigate to the fields you need to dit you will use the Engrafo Data Catalog’s tree-structure on the left side. The structure is Category → Database → Schema → Table → Column In the picture below the Table “Cities” is clicked and on the right you get a
Engrafo Administration
If you have admin-privileges' and you go to the Admin-module you can manage metadata about databases and administrate the different data usage documentations Further more it’s possible to create sample-spaces, edit the frontpage, update license and upload
Engrafo Configuration
If you have config-privilegies for your user profile and you go to the config-module, you can configure how your specific Engrafo installation displays information, and what it displays in the data catalog and data usage. This is essentially where you add
Engrafo Data Catalog
The Engrafo Data Catalog browser is wery intuitive. In this section we will show you how to browse and edit the data catalog image-20230516-073109.png
Engrafo Data Usage
The Data Usage section of Engrafo is where you will find all information regarding “how data is used”. This can be relating to ETL-jobs, advanced analytics, machine learning, data visualisation etc. In short gives you insights into everything where there
Engrafo Documentation
note Welcome to our Engrafo knowledge base! We wholeheartedly welcome you to your experience with Engrafo! This is quite likely the first of many pages we’ve created to guide you through the Engrafo software, that you will read. A world of data driven cul
Engrafo front page editor
You can edit the elements of the front page of Engrafo image-20230516-101047.png Edit is done by rich-text box edit, like this: image-20230516-101236.png
Engrafo Installation
Engrafo software Engrafo supplies a knowledge sharing platform which automatically and structured collects information about your business-critical data and how they’re used for analysis and reports throughout your organization. Website: http://www.engraf
Engrafo SAS Analyzer
With Engrafo you can automatically document your SAS jobs, giving you a complete data catalog on data used in the programs data lineage between programs and datasets program statistics on runtime, usage of procedures and much more detailed Flowcharts of S
Engrafo Search
As all metadata for both data catalog and data usage is organized neatly in an SQL database, text based search across the entire information ecosystem is both easy and fast. Simply click the magnifying glass at the top menu and type in what you search for
Exploring data usage documentation
The basis layout of the data usage information page is structured in a template, which consist of units which has specific fields with information. Engrafo can have many different templates for data usage information. Example: Different things might very
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FFree Trial - Engrafo!Yes, you can try Engrafo for free for 3 month freetrial.png Please send a mail to: contact@engrafo.dk mailto:contact@engrafo.dk with “Free trial” in the subject-field. You will shortly after receive a download link and a license. After that, you can follo
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IInstallation - server/desktopEngrafo is a web-application that depends on: a running Internet Information Server(IIS) - typically installed with your windows installation a MS SQL Server (e.g. MS SQL Server Express or MS SQL Server) - Don’t worry, we will guide you through download a
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JJust installed Engrafo - What now?So you just opened Engrafo for the first time… Congratulations! But what now? Don’t worry! We have made this small demo roadmap for you to get started 1) Import the demo data catalog We have made a small demo data catalog for you from the worldwide import
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MManually editing Data Catalog structuresOn this page of the Engrafo Guide you will find information about: Manually creating/editing data catalogs It is possible to manually create a data catalog, but we do recommend that you use the Engrafo metadata loader API ( Metadata and documentation load
Metadata and documentation load
When configuring and loading information to Engrafo it is highly recommended to have a way to automate the creation of data catalogs and data usage documentation. The goal is to minimize the manual efforts needed to document data and data usages. So, we c
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RRunning custom SQL scripts on Engrafo DatabaseIt can be useful to extract data from the Engrafo Database that holds all the metadata in a very structed and relational database. Some task that could be useful to do is: Run a SQL Script that creates metadato of the differences between data catalogs and
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UUser administrationThe Engrafo solution allows use of Active Directory or Manually created users image-20230516-103224.png We do recomend that you use AD to manage and control users in the solution On this page of the Engrafo Guide you can find information about: Roles for
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