Welcome
Explore using Spectrum Discovery to—better understand your data assets, create physical and logical data models, profile your data, perform lineage and impact analysis.
Getting Started
Understand your organization's data assets.
Connecting to Data
Connect to different data sources.
Cataloging Metadata
Create and maintain the catalog of metadata in Spectrum Discovery.
Defining Business Glossary
Maintain glossary entities, semantic type, and business rule.
Modeling
Manage Data Models—Logical, Physical, and Context Graph. Map models and manage Model Store.
Query
Create, export, and schedule a query.
Preparing Quality Rules
Prepare quality rules. Create rules and Match Keys.
- Accessing Prepare Home Page
- Selecting a source
- Creating Rules and Match Keys
  - Creating Matching Rules
  - Creating Match Keys
    - Creating Match Key
      A match key is a non-unique key shared by like records that identify records as potential duplicates. The match key facilitates the matching process by only comparing records that contain the same match key. The Match Key feature allows you: to:
    - Saving and publishing the match key
  - Creating Consolidation Rules
- Running smart consolidation
Profiling and Scorecarding
Create scorecards and profile. View scorecard trend and data profiling results.
Lineage and Impact Analysis
View Lineage and Impact Analysis.
Accessing Services through API
Learn API calls for Glossary and Profiling services.

Saving and publishing the match key

After configuring the match key, you can save or publish the match key according to your requirements.

To save the match key, click the Save button.
The match key is saved as a draft and is displayed on the Source Details page and the Home page, which indicates that the match key is in a preliminary state and does not exist in the repository.
To publish the match key to the repository, click the Publish button.
The match key is published to the repository and is displayed on the Source Details page and the Home page.
Note: In case you make changes to a published match key, you cannot save it as a draft copy. You will have to be re-publish the match key to save the changes.

For more information, see Viewing published and draft rules and match keys on source details page in Creating Rules and Match Keys.