Editing a golden record

While it is possible to directly update a golden record in Boomi DataHub, doing so is not recommended:

About this task

caution

Directly updating golden records in Boomi DataHub effectively circumvents all source system auditing and validation mechanisms, including source rankings and default source designation.

If you have configured model fields to mask sensitive data, field values in golden records, quarantine entries, and staged entities are masked accordingly. If you can edit a golden record field or quarantined entry, you can edit a masked value. After you submit the new value, that value is masked according to the model’s field settings. You must have one of the following user permissions to view masked data:

• MDM - Privileged Data Steward role
• MDM - Administrator role
• MDM - Reveal Masked Data privilege
• MDM - Data Steward role (or MDM - Stewardship privilege) and the Reveal Masked Data Hub entitlement (available with the Advanced Security feature)

Procedure

1. Select Stewardship > Golden Records.

2. In the repository/domain list, select the domain.

3. In the data grid, click the Updated Date of the golden record.

   The detail view opens.

4. In the Actions menu, select Edit this record.

   

   The Fields tab is automatically selected and transforms into a dialog.

   

5. For each non-reference field whose value you want to change, type the desired value (replace the existing value, if any) in the corresponding dialog field.

   For each reference field whose value you want to change, click the corresponding dialog field, type a value to search for, press Enter, and select the desired matching value from the list. If a golden record title format is specified in the referenced domain’s model, you can search for either a title format field value (in part or in its entirety) or an actual value (golden record ID in its entirety). Otherwise, you can search only for an actual value.

   You cannot use this dialog to add collection items. To delete a collection item, clear all of the item’s fields.

   note

   There is a 100 collection item deletion limit per edit.

6. Click Save.

   A status message appears in the dialog. Upon successful completion of the update, the tab transforms back to its default state, and the status message “The golden record was successfully updated” appears.

   note

   Normal updates to manually edited golden record fields for which source rankings are configured occur only where contributed by a field’s highest ranked source.