The Data Catalog includes a shared collection of custom sources and targets created and maintained by your company. These sources and targets can be data source and data target connectors or reference data set sources and targets from CloverDX Data Manager.

The data source and target connectors are designed to read from or write to external interfaces based on your company’s business needs. Connectors can be, for example, used to read data from a database or an interface like Hubspot or Xero. Each connector has its own tag, which is defined by your administrators during setup to help categorize and identify it.

In addition to these connectors, the Data Catalog can also include reference data set sources from the CloverDX Data Manager. A reference data set is a structured collection of standardized reference data that can be reused across multiple applications, processes, or systems. Each reference data set source has a corresponding reference data set target, which can be used to update the contents of the data set. Alternatively, the source data can be used for further processing, with results written to other targets as needed. Reference data set sources and targets are marked with a DATA MANAGER tag, making them easy to identify.

All sources and targets in the Data Catalog are created and configured by your CloverDX Server administrators. Administrators can refer to our CloverDX Server documentation for more information on how to publish new data source or target connectors. For more information on reference data set configuration, see Data set permissions.

The Data Catalog is usually the first place to visit when creating a new Wrangler job and looking for the data you need. To use a data source or data target from the Data Catalog in your jobs, you first need to add them to My Sources or My Targets, respectively. See the Data sources and data targets section in this documentation for more information on how to add and work with data sources and data targets.

By default, the Data Catalog displays both sources and targets. You can quickly switch to only sources or targets by clicking on the respective buttons.

When hovering over a catalog item, you will see different actions depending on the level of access assigned to you by your CloverDX Server administrators:

If you have permissions for the given Data Catalog item, you can use it in your jobs right away. If you don’t have permissions, you must contact your CloverDX Server administrators to grant you access.