How to create a purpose

Create purpose

To create a purpose:

1. From the left menu of any screen, click Governance.
2. Under Access Control, click Purposes.
3. If this is the first purpose, click the Get started button. Otherwise click the New Purpose button.
4. Enter a meaningful name for the purpose, (optional) a description.
5. In the lower-left corner, click the + icon.
6. Select one or more classifications from the list, and then click on the purpose box again to close the list.
7. Click Create to create the purpose.

You now have an empty purpose.

(Optional) Add rich documentation

To add rich documentation describing the purpose:

• Under Summary, then Channels, add any Slack channels relevant to the purpose.
• Under Resources, add links to external resources like PDFs, repositories, Notion, Confluence, Google Drive — anything that has a URL.
• Under Readme, write a richly-formatted description of the purpose.

Add policies

To add policies to the purpose, from within the purpose:

1. Change to the Policies tab.
2. Click the New Policy button and choose the type of policy.

Add a metadata policy

To grant or restrict permissions to change metadata:

3. Choose Metadata Policy.
4. Under Name, briefly describe the policy's intention.
5. (Optional) Under Users and Groups, choose the users to whom to apply the policy. By default, all users will be included. To select others:
   1. In the Users and Groups box, click the x.
   2. Under Users and Groups, click the Add link.
   3. Search for and select the users and groups to control with the policy, and then click anywhere in the Metadata Policy sidebar.
6. (Optional) For Configure permissions choose the permissions the policy will grant. By default, all permissions will be granted. To select others:
   1. To the right of Configure permissions click the Edit link.
   2. Select the permissions required. If you are unsure what they do, hover over the checkbox to see a more detailed description of each one.
   3. At the bottom of the list, click Save.
7. (Optional) For Deny selected permissions choose whether you want to explicitly deny these permissions.
   🚨 Careful! If enabled, this will override all grants of those permissions from any other policies for the same users.
8. At the bottom of the Metadata Policy sidebar, click Save.

Add a data policy

To grant or restrict permissions to query or preview data:

3. Choose Data Policy.
4. Under Name, briefly describe the policy's intention.
5. (Optional) Under Users and Groups, choose the users to whom to apply the policy. By default, all users will be included. To select others:
   1. In the Users and Groups box, click the x.
   2. Under Users and Groups, click the Add link.
   3. Search for and select the users and groups to control with the policy, and then click anywhere in the Data Policy sidebar.
6. (Optional) For Configure permissions choose the masking the policy to apply. By default, no masking will be applied. To apply masking, under Masking(Optional) select the type of masking to apply. If you are unsure what they do, hover over each one to see a more detailed description and an example.
7. (Optional) For Deny Permissions choose whether you want to explicitly deny the ability to query and preview data on these assets.
   🚨 Careful! If enabled, this will override all grants of those permissions from any other policies for the same users. This will also deny at the table level — even if only 1 out of 100 columns in a table has the classification, previewing and querying will be denied for the entire table.
8. At the bottom of the Data Policy sidebar, click Save.