The April 2025 monthly launch delivers powerful improvements to business glossary management and bulk editing workflows — including the long-awaited glossary hierarchy view, relationship field support in Quick Editor and Excel, and a simplified access request experience.
🔥 What's New?
🌳 Glossary Hierarchy Is Here
Browse your business glossary as a structured tree.
The Glossary Hierarchy view — previewed in our last update — is now live! Browse your entire business glossary as an expandable parent/child tree, view definitions alongside term names, and see hierarchy relationships as fields on each term's Overview page. Because the hierarchy is built on parent/child relationships and displayed as relationship-as fields, the bulk editing improvements in this release apply directly — you can manage glossary hierarchy assignments at scale through both the Quick Editor and Excel.
Who benefits: Business users, data stewards, and governance teams who manage large business glossaries and need to understand and maintain term hierarchies efficiently.
✏️ Quick Editor Now Supports Relationship Fields
Bulk edit relationships without leaving the UI.
The Quick Editor — the in-app tool for bulk editing metadata across multiple assets at once — now supports relationship-as fields. You can now view and edit relationship-as fields directly in the Quick Editor, alongside other metadata fields. This includes the parent/child relationships that power the glossary hierarchy, so you can reclassify or restructure terms in bulk without leaving the UI.
Who benefits: Data stewards and catalog administrators who need to manage relationships across multiple resources efficiently, including glossary hierarchy restructuring and custom relationship management.
📊 Bulk Edit Relationship Fields via Excel Import/Export
Enterprise-scale relationship management through Excel.
You can now export, edit, and re-import relationship-as fields through the Excel bulk editing workflow. This includes support for many-to-many relationships, so you can add, remove, or update associations across multiple records to Business Terms or other resource types — including custom types — all from a spreadsheet.
What changed:
- Excel exports now include relationship-as fields. Previously, these fields were excluded from exports, meaning there was no way to view or edit them in bulk outside the UI. Note that relationship-as fields are exported using each asset's IRI rather than its display name in the catalog.
- Excel imports now process relationship-as field updates. Upload your edited spreadsheet and relationship changes are applied in bulk. Before changes are committed, a review screen previews every update so you can verify what will be modified.
- Glossary hierarchy at scale: Because the glossary hierarchy is powered by parent/child relationship-as fields, you can now use Excel to assign or reorganize hierarchy relationships across many terms at once.
Who benefits: Data stewards and administrators managing large-scale metadata operations, particularly those who prefer spreadsheet-based workflows for complex relationship updates across hundreds or thousands of resources.
🚀 Access Request Premium Automation: Create and Submit in One Step
Faster access requests, fewer abandoned drafts.
The Premium Access Request automation — which lets catalog users request access to specific resources and routes those requests to designated approver groups — now supports creating and submitting a request in a single action. Previously, submitting an access request was a two-step process: first you created the request, then you submitted it separately. Now, the create and submit steps are combined into one action. Fill in the details, hit submit, and your request is immediately routed to the appropriate approver group.
Why it matters:
- Faster for requestors: Get your access request in front of an approver without extra steps.
- Fewer incomplete requests: Eliminating the gap between "create" and "submit" means requests no longer get stuck in a draft state.
- Simpler experience: One action, one click.
Who benefits: Data consumers who request access to restricted resources and administrators managing access workflows. This functionality is part of premium