Creating a Term

Create terms to classify the harvested data entities and attributes. Each term must be created within a category.

• Console
• CLI
• API

• 1. On the Glossaries page, click the glossary for which you want to create a term.
  2. On the glossary details page, in the Hierarchy pane of the glossary details tab, click the category where you want to create a term.
  3. In the category details page, click Create term.
  4. In the Create term panel that appears, provide the following information:
     • Name: Enter a name for the term.
     • Description: Enter a description for the term.
     • Owner: Select the owner of the term from the list.
     • Status: Select a status from the list. The available options are as follows:
       • New
       • Approved
  5. Click Create.

  After the term is created, it's listed in the Hierarchy pane of the glossary details page. You can classify data assets using this term. See linking glossary terms to data objects.

• Use the create command and required parameters to create a term:

  oci data-catalog term create [OPTIONS]

  For a complete list of flags and variable options for CLI commands, see the CLI Command Reference.

• Run the CreateTerm operation to create a glossary term.