In August, we plan to release a series of improvements to our search page including:
We're investing in navigation enhancements across the site for community and enterprise users. This week, we plan to roll out a beta breadcrumbs feature to help you get back to your list views from your resource pages. This first beta release will include easy access to your organization page from metadata catalog resources, quick filters to navigate back to similar items in your catalog, and basic hierarchical navigation for things like tables and columns. Additional hierarchical navigation support is planned for the coming months.
Recently announced in a coming soon post, the new resource type search filter is now available on the search page for all users of the platform. This filter allows users to drill down to any supported resource type, including custom configured catalog types.
We're thrilled to announce the release of our brand new documentation portal. We've remastered all our platform documentation content to make it easier to read, search, and navigate. You can now get all the answers you need in just one place!
These are some of the improvements and new navigation experiences you'll see in our new portal:
- Home page menus
Use the top menus to navigate the documentation for specific product versions: Community docs for data.world community members and Enterprise docs, specifically written for our enterprise customers who have needs and use cases outside of the scope of our community users.
- Search improvements
Search is one of the most important ways to find the information you need. So we’ve introduced a new search experience. When you enter a query, you’ll immediately see some suggestions.
- Easier access to everything you need
Easy access to integrations gallery, API docs, and Grafo documentation.
Check it out at https://docs.data.world/.
Next week, we will be releasing an update to the Search UI to include a new standard filter for Resource Type. This has been a much requested filter option to help users drill down into the specific resource types returned from search. This filter includes our common types like datasets, projects, and queries as well as custom types that are configured for your organization's catalog.
This change will also update the presentation order of the search filters as:
1. Resource Type
2. Owner
3. Status
4. Tag
5. Collection
6... Custom configured facets
On Thursday, June 10, we will be deploying a major update to data.world Enterprise Data Catalog customer Usage and Governance Reporting, which is delivered to the ddw-metrics-* dataset in your catalog.
These changes have focused on performance optimizations, increased consistency, some additional columns, and some new tables/reports. Some columns have been renamed to order to achieve consistent use and definitions.
If you have any questions or concerns, please let us know at support@data.world or via your customer success representative.
Multi-tenant change log
Single-tenant change log (private sites & private installs)
Our metadata collector (dwcc, aka the data.world Catalog Collector) is now available on DockerHub! Simply run docker pull datadotworld/dwcc:x.xx where x.xx is your desired version, and you're in business. It's that easy.
Other enhancements to the metadata collector:
--config-file option for metadata collector (Beta): We've heard your feedback on wanting a simplified way to manage the configurations for your metadata collectors. The config file will become the default way in the near future to set your parameters going forward. Lots more info on this coming soon! The data.world catalog collector (dwcc) version 2.25 and newer now includes enhanced collection of Tableau metadata, leveraging the Tableau Metadata API. For maximum available metadata, it is recommended you use Tableau user credentials with admin level permissions. The latest version of the collector is also included automatically if using Connection Manager.
New metadata includes expanded information from datasources, databases, fields, metrics, and many more inter-object relationships.
In the last few weeks, several minor bugs and enhancements have been made. Here are some notable ones:
Improved help text for tags, including on pressing “Enter” to add tags
Improved empty state messaging for adding contributors to a dataset
Consistent use of timestamps in alerts and notifications
Navigation tabs on various pages are now keyboard-navigable (left and right arrow keys) for ease of browsing and improved accessibility
“Share” button directly opens “Grant access” modal
Consistent use of display name in emails
Text truncation fixed for filter bars and the project workbench
Various layout, text, and navigational misalignments or inconsistencies
We are thrilled to announce the public release of a highly requested feature: Column Search. The main search page now provides result details that match against columns in your data.world datasets and projects as well as column metadata in your catalog. Look for the new column results banner above your search results.
