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Release Notes

  • API Release Notes

API Overview

  • API Overview
  • Authentication
  • APIs by Roles
  • Pagination
  • Throttling
  • Object Keys & Object IDs
    • Multipart Schema Names
    • Keys with Special Characters
  • Create an API Service Account
  • Open API Index
  • HTML Sanitization
  • Log Based API Error Codes
  • Finding Your Alation Version

Lineage Guides

  • Lineage - General API Quick Start Guide
  • Lineage & Dataflow - Frequently Asked Questions
  • Lineage - Dataflow Quick Start

Virtual Sources (VS) Guides

  • VS BI Quick Start
  • Upload NoSQL Metadata to Alation

Specific Use Cases

  • Updating Custom Metadata/Descriptions for BI Objects
  • Searching for Tables By Custom Field
  • Systems Integrations to Alation
  • Alation Open Data Quality Initiative Guide
  • Migrate Data Sources from Native Connectors to OCF

Upload Logical Metadata (ULM)

  • ULM: Key Formatting
  • ULM: Custom Field Formatting
  • Updating Custom Metadata for NoSQL Sources
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