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Manage Purposes

Audience: Data Owners and Governors

Content Summary: This page details the immuta purpose command, its subcommands and arguments, and the workflow for creating and deleting purposes.

Command: immuta purpose

This command allows you to list, save, and delete purposes in your instance of Immuta. The table below illustrates subcommands and arguments.

Subcommands Description Argument(s)
delete Delete a purpose by name. purpose name
list List all purposes. n/a
save Create or update a purpose in Immuta. filepath

Options

Use these options to get more details about the purpose command or any of its subcommands:

  • -h
  • --help
Manage Purposes

Usage:
  immuta purpose [command]

Available Commands:
  delete      Delete a purpose by name
  list        List all purposes
  save        Create/update a purpose in Immuta

Flags:
  -h, --help   help for purpose

Global Flags:
      --config string    config file (default $HOME/.immutacfg.yaml)
  -p, --profile string   specifies the profile for what instance/api the cli will use (default "default")

Use "immuta purpose [command] --help" for more information about a command.

Create a Purpose: immuta purpose save

  1. Add your purpose information in a valid YAML file for the V2 API. Additional payload examples for creating purposes can be found here:
name: Demo Purpose
acknowledgement: You promise not to share this data outside the project.
description: This project is only to be used for departmental data.

  1. Run immuta purpose save <filepath> [--dryRun] [--reAcknowledge], referencing the file you just created. The options you can specify include

    • --reAcknowledge: Require all users of any projects using this purpose to re-acknowledge any updated acknowledgement statements.
    • -d or --dryRun: No updates will be made.
    • -h or --help: Get more information about the command.

Examples

The example below illustrates a user creating a purpose called Demo Purpose.

$ immuta purpose list
Re-identification Prohibited
Re-identification Prohibited.CCPA
Re-identification Prohibited.Safe Harbor Method
Use Case Outside De-identification

$ immuta purpose save test-purpose.yml
{"dryRun":false,"creating":true,"updating":false,"purposeId":8}

$ immuta purpose list
Demo Purpose
Re-identification Prohibited
Re-identification Prohibited.CCPA
Re-identification Prohibited.Safe Harbor Method
Use Case Outside De-identification

Delete a Purpose: immuta purpose delete

GOVERNANCE Permission

You need the GOVERNANCE permission in Immuta to run this command.

  1. Opt to list all purposes to determine which purpose you would like to delete by running immuta purpose list. Options you can specify include

    • -h or --help: Get more information about the command.
    • -v or --verbose: Print response as JSON.

  2. Delete a purpose by running immuta purpose delete <purpose name> [--dryRun], enclosing the purpose name in quotation marks. Options you can specify include

    • -d or --dryRun: No updates will be made.
    • -h or --help: Get more information about the command.

Example

The example below illustrates a user deleting the purpose Demo Purpose.

$ immuta purpose list
Demo Purpose
Re-identification Prohibited
Re-identification Prohibited.CCPA
Re-identification Prohibited.Safe Harbor Method
Use Case Outside De-identification

$ immuta purpose delete "Demo Purpose"
{"dryRun":false,"deleting":["Demo Purpose"]}

$ immuta purpose list
Re-identification Prohibited
Re-identification Prohibited.CCPA
Re-identification Prohibited.Safe Harbor Method
Use Case Outside De-identification