Designing Subjects

Subject Design Overview

Constraints

A maximum of 500 subjects can be created in a workspace.

Creating and Publishing a Subject

1. On the DataArts Studio console, locate a workspace and click DataArts Architecture.
2. On the DataArts Architecture page, choose Data Survey > Subjects in the left navigation bar. On the page displayed, click Create in the upper left corner.
   Figure 1 Designing a subject
   

3. In the dialog box displayed, set the parameters and click OK.

   Table 1 Parameters for creating a subject area group

   Parameter	Description
   * Subject Name	The following characters are not allowed: / \ < >.
   * Subject Code	The code of the subject area group to create. Only letters, digits, spaces, underscores (_), hyphens (-), parentheses, and ampersands (&) are allowed.
   Alias	The following characters are not allowed: \ < >. NOTE: Before configuring an alias, choose Metrics > Configuration Center, click the Model Settings tab, and select Subjects for Use Alias.
   Parent Subject	Parent subject of the subject area group
   Data Owner's Department	The department that the data owner belongs to.
   * Data Owner	Select a data owner from the drop-down list box. You can select multiple data owners or enter custom data owners.
   Description	A description of the subject area group to create.

   Figure 2 Creating a subject
   

4. Select the created subject area group and click Publish. In the displayed dialog box, select a reviewer and click OK. After the application is approved, the Subjects page is displayed. You can view the created subject area group in the list, and the status of the subject area group is Published. Only published subject area groups can be used.
   

   If you have been added as a reviewer, you can select Auto-review and click OK. After the application is approved, the subject area group status changes to Published.

   Figure 3 Publishing a subject
   

5. You can create multiple subjects in a subject. Note that a subject can be published only if its upper-layer subjects have been published.
   

   When you are creating a L3 subject, that is, a business object, parameter Subject Code is displayed in the Create Business Object dialog box. You can select Auto Generate or Custom.

   • Auto Generate: A code is automatically generated based on the encoding rule in the Configuration Center.
   • Custom: Enter a code.

   In subject design, business objects at different L1 levels can have the same name.

   The number of subject levels is defined by users on the Subject Levels tab page on the Configuration Center page. By default, there are three levels in the system, Subject Area Group (L1), Subject Area (L2), and Business Object (L3).

Importing a Subject

1. On the DataArts Architecture page, choose Data Survey > Subjects in the left navigation pane.
2. Click More above the subject list and select Import.
   Figure 4 Importing a subject
   

3. In the dialog box displayed, set Update Existing Data, click Select File, and click Upload.
   Figure 5 Importing a subject
   

   Table 2 Parameters for importing subjects

   Parameter	Description
   Update Existing Data	Whether to update existing subject information (subject area group, subject area, or business object) during the import. When a subject is imported, the system checks whether the subject exists according to its code. No: If you select this option, the subject information will not be updated. Yes: If you select this option, the subject information will be updated. During the import, only subject creation and update are allowed.
   Upload File	Select the file to import. You can use either of the following methods to obtain the file to import: Downloading the subject import template and filling in it In the Import Subject dialog box, click Subject Template to download the template, fill in the content, and save the settings. See Table 3 for template parameter details. Exporting subjects to files You can export the subjects created in DataArts Architecture of a DataArts Studio instance to an Excel file. Then, import the Excel file. See Exporting a Subject for details.

   Table 3 describes the parameters in the downloaded template. Parameters whose names start with an asterisk (*) are mandatory, and other parameters are optional. Enter the information about a subject in a line.

   Table 3 Parameters

   Parameter	Description
   Parent Subject	Encoding path of the upper-level subject, which is separated by slashes (/).
   *Name	The following characters are not allowed: / \ < >.
   *Code	Code of the subject to create. Only letters, digits, spaces, underscores (_), hyphens (-), parentheses, and ampersands (&) are allowed.
   Alias	Alias of the subject.
   Description	A description of the subject. This parameter is mandatory for the lowest-level subject. You must add the description of the lowest-level subject in the file to be imported.
   Data Owner's Department	The department that the data owner belongs to. This parameter is mandatory for the lowest-level subject. You must add the department of the owner of the lowest-level subject in the file to be imported.
   Data Owner	The owner of the data. Multiple owners are supported. Separate owner names with commas (,)

4. View the import result on the Last Import tab page. If the import is successful, click Close. If the import fails, you can view the failure cause, correct the template file, and upload it again.
   Figure 6 Last Import tab page
   

Exporting a Subject

1. On the DataArts Architecture page, choose Data Survey > Subjects in the left navigation pane.
2. Click More above the subject list and select Export to export the subjects to an Excel file. Then, import the Excel file.
   

   • If you select subjects and click Export, the system recursively exports the selected subjects and their child subjects.
   • If you select subjects in the subject directory tree and click Export without selecting subjects in the subject list, the selected subjects are exported recursively.

Managing a Subject

Figure 7 Subject design area

• Search

  You can enter a keyword in the search box to search for all subjects in the public workspace.

• Edit

  Locate a subject in the list and click in the Operation column to edit the subject. To make a published subject take effect after you have edited it, select the draft and publish it.

• Delete

  Select a subject in the list and click More and select Delete above the list to delete the subject.

• Move Up/Down

  Locate a subject in the list and click or in the Operation column to move down or up the subject.