Entity Types
The entity types page will list all types of entities in the Loome Portal.
You can manage your entity types here. You can filter on each column in the table.
There are entity types that are added by default from your added source systems.
For example, the related entity types will be added for sources of:
- Loome Assist
- Loome Integrate
- Loome Monitor
- Azure Data Factory
- Power BI
- Tableau
There are also default entity types such as:
- Category: Content, with the Sub-category: Web
- Link
- Document
Edit Existing Entity Types
To edit an existing entity type, click on Edit in the ‘Actions’ column at the end of the entity type’s row.
Editable fields are dependent on the entity type:
- If the entity type was created manually in Loome, you can make changes to your previously selected fields.
- If the entity type is from a source system, you can only modify the icon and colour, and the URL description.
Please note that you cannot edit source, type, and categories, as well as the API Request, Embedding Library and Embedding Params for an entity type added from inbuilt source systems.
How to Create a New Entity Type
Click on Add Entity Type.
Provide the name of the new entity type in Type.
Provide the Source of this entity type.
Choose a Category from the dropdown of Data Pipeline, Quality Rule, Content, or Infrastructure Resource. Then choose a Subcategory from the dropdown. It will display subcategories of your chosen category in the dropdown.
You can also manually add a new category and subcategory.
Type in your new category and subcategory and then press TAB or ENTER to add and select it in the dropdown.
Categories and subcategories help describe the different types of entity types. While entity types are used to categorize assets.
Choose an icon and its colour by clicking on Edit at the bottom-right of the icon.
Provide a description for the URL field in Url Description. This is required as publishers will need to supply a URL for each asset registered against this entity type.
You can then click on Next to choose embedding details.
Or you can choose to click Save and exit if you do not want to add an embedding library.
In the Embedding Library field, provide an embedding URL to be able to embed assets with this entity type.
Adding of embedding params is disabled when there is no embedding url defined.
You can select an API Request that can be used in your customization library. Choose an API Request from the dropdown.
If you have provided an embedding library, you can then optionally add embedding parameters here.
Click on Add in the parameter section, and you can then provide the fields needed for a parameter.
Provide an Id, name, type (Text, Boolean, Choice, or Array), value, and description of this parameter.
- Id: A unique identifier for the parameter.
- Name: A display name for the parameter.
- Type: The data type of the parameter of Text, Boolean, Choice, or Array.
- Value: Optionally, you can provide a default value for the parameter.
- Description: This will be the description for this parameter when viewing an asset.
You can add another parameter using Add at the top-right of the parameter section.
Click on Save to add this entity type.
