Metadata Administration Perspective
The main navigation pane, located at the left of the screen, contains perspectives. Perspectives allow you to access to all features that are enabled by permissions associated with your profile. Features are groups by section; each section is identified by its own color. You can resize the perspective by dragging is right border and reduce display to only icons by clicking on the arrow at the upper right corner.
Attention
As of this release, metadata management functionality and it's related features and perspectives is only available for TIBCO EBX® Container Edition. See Building the image for information on installing the metadata related module.
The Metadata Administration perspective gives you access to the following sections.
Metadata harvesting This section allows you to configure the TIBCO® Metadata Agent. You can view a list of available agents, supported data source types and a list of different objects managed by these agents. You can follow status and troubleshooting of metadata harvesting jobs and configurations. From here you can also create technical users for the Agent and other applications that call the Metadata API. Sampling This section allows you configuring sampling default size. Permissions This section covers administration of the application permissions for different groups of users and different types of actions and services in the EBX® Metadata Management application. You can assign roles to the users, define access rules for your metadata according to user profiles and apply dynamic roles to workflow tasks. You can also define collaboration permissions.
Workflows This section allows you to follow active and completed workflows executed in the system. It also allows you to activate and deactivate workflow execution for create and update actions, and define provisioning parameters. Repository From this section you can access documents attached to your metadata as well as sample files retrieved using Asset sampling. You can see three drives here: User data drive, Built-in drive and Machine Learning/Samples drive. UI configuration This section allows you to define a default home page configuration and grid forms. Trial This section is only available for users subscribed to trial data. It allows you to load a trial metadata sample in your system. Downloads You can download a TIBCO® Metadata Agent ready for installation package from here. Advanced services This section allows you to reset the system’s configuration to the default state. A reset applies to all permissions and views and resets them to their original state. About From here you can access information about the EBX® Metadata Management application.