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Displaying Data Lineage in the Stemma UI

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Tables

  1. Navigate to the details page for the table.
  2. Click on Lineage graph in the menu bar at the top of the page.
  3. You will see something like this:

From here you can:

Adjust the view: zoom in, zoom out, center, and fit to the page:

then choose Table Details to Table Lineage

See the table’s details page in the Stemma UI and a new lineage graph for each upstream and downstream table: click on the arrow and then choose Table Details or Table Lineage:

See and highlight the lineage of each table:

Collapse tables into groups: first hover over the logo:

hover over the logo

Then click the stack:

click the stack

To expand the groups again:

First click the down arrow
Then click the stack

Search, for an exact match only, on table properties. (In this example, statewide_testing will match, but not  statewide testing):

Columns

  1. Navigate to the details page for the table.
  2. Click on Columns in the menu bar at the top of the page.
  3. Click on the up-arrow next to the column whose lineage you want to see.
    Stemma shows the top five upstream and downstream columns.

Dashboards

  1. Navigate to the details page for the dashboard.
  2. Click on Lineage graph in the menu bar at the top of the page.
  3. You will see something like this:

From here you can:

Adjust the view: zoom in, zoom out, center, and fit to the page.

See the tables used by the dashboard and the columns used from each table:

See and highlight the lineage of each table:

Show the table’s lineage in an individual graph and the table’s details page in the Stemma UI; click on the arrow and then choose Table Details or Table Lineage:

Search, for an exact match only, on table properties (for example, statewide_cases will match, but not  statewide cases).

Collapse tables into groups and expand the groups again (see Tables).