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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.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
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.
Building a ChatGPT like app on top of Purview catalog data
We've started experimenting with the Purview catalog and added some governance domains and data products. This helps us build up a rich source of meta data especially when linked with the glossaries and data assets. However, what we really want to get to is a solution where users can ask a question based on their objective and get told which report to run / website to access etc, like you would do with ChatGPT. The Purview CoPilot seems to be focussed on security as far as I can tell. I've got an idea that this can be achieved by using the Atlas APIs (confirmed by ChatGPT) but was wondering if this is something anyone else has done, if there is a sample app out there anywhere, or just if there's a better way of achieving our objective?
Challenges adding large numbers of assets to a Data Product in Unified Catalog
The client's needs oblige us to add the tables from a SQL database into the data product; they've also got a use case for a massive file share. We are hitting a wall in finding a programmatic solution to bring these data map assets into the Product, and the portal fails when trying to add more than 100 objects at a time. Looking for a timeline for the release of APIs and tools to address this?
