How to: Add Metadata (Master Data Services)

In Master Data Services, add user-defined metadata to the Metadata model to describe your model objects.

Prerequisites

To perform this procedure:

  • You must have permission to access the Explorer functional area.

  • For the Metadata model, you must have Update permission to the attribute values that you want to update.

  • The version's status must be Open.

To add metadata

  1. On the Master Data Manager home page, from the Model list, select the Metadata model.

  2. From the Version list, select a version.

  3. Click Explorer.

  4. From the menu bar, point to Entities and click the metadata definition you want to update.

  5. In the grid, double-click a cell to update an attribute value. For example, update the Description attribute with a description of the model object.

  6. Press ENTER.