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gillerman
Copper Contributor
Feb 25, 2026

How to add glossary term to domain

Does anyone know how to add a glossary term to a domain using the REST API?  What is the correct url?  

None of these work:

    url = f"{my_purview_endpoint}/unifiedcatalog/domains/{my_glossary_guid}/glossaryTerms"

    url = f"{my_purview_endpoint}/datagovernance/catalog/businessdomains/{my_glossary_guid}/glossaryTerms"

    url = f"{my_purview_endpoint}/businessdomains/{my_glossary_guid}/terms"

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  • milgo's avatar
    milgo
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    Feb 27, 2026

    Hello Gillerman!
    Thanks for reaching out. 
    My first guess is that none of the URLs you tried are valid because domains ≠ glossaries in the API model; domains belong to Unified Catalog, while glossary terms are managed via the Glossary (Atlas) APIs. 
    I doubt that you can add a glossary term “to a domain” via a domain‑scoped URL. In Microsoft Purview, glossary terms are created independently using the Glossary (Data Map) REST API, and domain association is handled via metadata (not a /domains/{id}/terms endpoint). Could you try this
    POST {purview-endpoint}/datamap/api/atlas/v2/glossary/term