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Catalog homepage improvements are urgently needed
Hi Microsoft, Since this page for Purview DGS has opened, I though I'd start a discussion and provide some user feedback on the UX. Let's be honest: it is confusing for end users, and annoying for admins: Users navigate to the catalog to find data, but end up on a homepage that tells them how to set up a catalog. Trust me on this: they don't care, and neither do I after having set up the catalog already. Users do however see a search bar, which they will use. The 'search' bar on the homepage does not search for data assets or data products, but for Microsoft documentation. Users get stuck here, without ever finding data. The current set up of the homepage makes it totally feel like some preview/demo environment. This lint search bar persists throughout the application, leading to more confusion on data product or data assets search (as there are now two search bars), or within the page of a data product itself (where the search bar persists in the lint, but follow-up search actions using this search bar result in nothing helpful). I'd suggest removing this lint search option entirely, and bringing the 'discovery' search options to the homepage. Bonus points if the homepage becomes customizable (e.g. like a SharePoint page) so we can point our users to company specific documentation to help them get started. I thought this feature was promised in the previous roadmap, but unfortunately it seems to be deleted in the most recent publication. A better homepage will greatly aid user adoption.Data Product Owner and Contacts should be separate fields
Currently, the 'contacts' field under a data product has a 1 on 1 relationship with the 'data product owner' field. It is not possible to add 'contacts' seperately. I believe this does not make sense for most organizations. For example, our data products have one owner, and multiple contacts (e.g. data stewards, data experts). That's how our governance works. We are not going to add people to the 'data product owner' field that are no data owners, just to show them in contacts. Also, why would you have two fields that basically do the same? Clicking on 'data product owner' already gives me the information for 'contacts'. Please let us add contacts here, that are not the data product owner.Feature request: Get rid of "Welcome to new Microsoft Purview portal" screen
Any new user of Purview DGS will be shown this screen: I strongly believe this should be an admin led tenant-wide decision, and not an 'any new user on it's own decision'. The screen is confusing and completely unnecessary for new users with "Global Catalog Reader" permissions only. The problem with this screen is that it results in some users landing in the classic portal, while all documentation and training materials that we share are based on the new portal. My suggestions would be to move this option to 'settings'. After all, as Microsoft, you want your users to use the new portal too, right? P.S. in the meantime, please get rid of the homepage and move all that under a 'getting started' page: Catalog homepage improvements are urgently needed | Microsoft Community Hub
Request access form should be customizable
Most customers have existing data access policies and access request forms. Customers should be able to adapt the request access form, so it reflects their existing form for data access. Besides the point that the access request form should be customizable, the current form has some shortcomings that are not too sharp: When a data product is created, data product owners are asked to fill in a maximum access duration. On the request access form it is not possible for a requester to provide a requested duration as an input. Why is the "business justification" entry only one row? Why can we not turn the "Purpose" part off? Why are there three options that are always there? What if a data owner does not want to provide access for "assessing fit"? We expect the user to describe their intentions with the data in detail. We do not expect to data owner to think out all possible purposes beforehand. I have seen As a data product owner, I can set up customizable workflows for data product access and use Power Automate connector to connect with other applications. On the roadmap. Please make customizing the request access form part of this feature.
Data product search is broken: no results for partial terms
Searching for data products using partial terms returns zero results, despite the existence of data products with matching names. For example, searching for 'risk' yields no results even though we have three data products that have 'riskscores' in their names. I have created a support ticket, and was told that the PG has stated this behavior was by design. I just can't wrap my head around this statement. Search is the reason why data catalog tools are popular and help democratize data, and this type of searching doesn’t really help to make the data products discoverable. A feature request was created (3135) but I was also asked to post here for visibility. Here's some proof:
Scaling Data Governance- Does a Purview in a Day Framework Exist?
Hello Purview Community, I’ve been exploring the available acceleration resources for Microsoft Purview, and one thing I noticed is a potential gap in the "In a Day" workshop series. While we have excellent programs like Power BI in a Day or Fabric in a Day, I haven't yet seen a formalized Purview in a Day framework designed to help organizations jumpstart their governance journey in a single, cohesive session. I am reaching out because my team is currently preparing something in this area that we believe will be very useful to the community and Microsoft in the future. Rather than working in isolation, we want to ensure we are aligned with the official roadmap. I wanted to reach out to the community and the Microsoft product team to ask: Is there an official "In a Day" initiative for Purview currently in the works? If not, who would be the best point of contact to discuss alignment? Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and seeing if we can build something impactful together!
How to Unassign Assets from Data Products in Microsoft Purview at Once
Hello, I’ve assigned around 100 assets to a specific data product and would now like to unassign all of them at once, rather than removing them individually. Using the Purview REST API with Python, I was able to retrieve the list of my data products and successfully identify the target data product. However, I haven’t been able to fetch the list of assets currently assigned to it, which prevents me from performing a bulk unassignment. Could anyone please advise how to retrieve and unassign all assets from a data product programmatically?
