Manage Identifiers

Requirement: Immuta permission GOVERNANCE or domain-specific Manage Identifiers

Create a new identifier

This action can be done within a domain from the Identifiers tab to create a domain-specific identifier, or it can be done from the Identifiers page to create a reference identifier.

1. Click Create New.

2. Enter a name and description for your identifier.

3. Click Next.

4. Enter criteria: Select the Type of criteria.

   1. For regex, enter a regex to be matched against column values. The default criteria encoding is case-sensitive. You can change this encoding using the regex criteria. The regex must use RE2 syntax.

   2. For column name regex, enter a regex to be matched against column names. The default criteria encoding is case-insensitive. You can change this encoding using the regex criteria. The regex must use RE2 syntax.

   3. For a dictionary, enter the values in a comma-separated list to match against column values. Opt to toggle the Case insensitive switch to on if you want the dictionary to be case sensitive.

5. Click Next.

6. Select the tags to apply: Use the text box to search for a tag or type a tag name to create a new tag under the "Discovered . Entity" hierarchy to apply to columns that match your identifier.

7. Click Next to review your new identifier and click Create Identifier to create it.

Note that all user-created identifiers must be a 90% match or greater for the contents of the column to be tagged.

Edit an identifier

Editing the details of an identifier from the identifiers page will only affect that identifier; no copies of that identifier will be impacted.

Reference identifier

To edit a reference identifier,

1. Click Metadata in the navigation menu and select Identifiers.

2. Click the more actions icon of the identifier you want to edit.

3. Select Edit.

4. Edit the field you want to change.

5. Click Save.

Built-in identifiers cannot be edited.

Domain identifier

To edit a domain identifier,

1. Click Domains and navigate to the domain.

2. Select the Identifiers tab.

3. Click the more actions icon of the identifier you want to edit.

4. Click Edit.

5. Edit the field you want to change.

6. Click Save.

Delete an identifier

Deleting a domain identifier from the identifiers page will remove it from the domain it is in.

Reference identifier

To delete a reference identifier,

1. Click Metadata in the navigation menu and select Identifiers.

2. Click the more actions icon of the identifier you want to delete.

3. Select Delete and click Save.

Built-in identifiers cannot be deleted.

Domain identifier

To delete a domain identifier,

1. Click Domains and navigate to the domain.

2. Select the Identifiers tab.

3. Click the more actions icon of the identifier you want to delete.

4. Select Delete and click Save.