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[GitHub] [superset] danisola opened a new issue #16635: Metadata synchronization across dbt and Superset
danisola opened a new issue #16635:
URL: https://github.com/apache/superset/issues/16635
**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**
Many companies now use [dbt](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt) to model, test, and document their datasets. It would be great to have an easy way to synchronize the dbt metadata with Superset.
It's also worth noting that in Superset the columns descriptions are discoverable and useful, but the 'description' field in datasets is not visible anywhere. At least I couldn't find it in Superset 1.1.0
**Describe the solution you'd like**
A convenient way to solve this would be for Superset were to read the field description from the table and column comments. Something like:
* Enable [persist_docs](https://docs.getdbt.com/reference/resource-configs/persist_docs) in dbt, which stores the descriptions as comments in tables and columns
* Superset reads and populates the column and datasets descriptions when synching metadata from the DB
**Describe alternatives you've considered**
Another way would be to have a system that synchronizes the dbt metadata using the [Superset API](https://superset.apache.org/docs/rest-api)
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[GitHub] [superset] danisola commented on issue #16635: Metadata synchronization across dbt and Superset
Posted by GitBox <gi...@apache.org>.
danisola commented on issue #16635:
URL: https://github.com/apache/superset/issues/16635#issuecomment-992672095
That's great, we'll check it out!
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[GitHub] [superset] one-data-cookie commented on issue #16635: Metadata synchronization across dbt and Superset
Posted by GitBox <gi...@apache.org>.
one-data-cookie commented on issue #16635:
URL: https://github.com/apache/superset/issues/16635#issuecomment-992273497
@danisola I was able to achieve this via Superset API and open-source it as a part of [`dbt-superset-lineage`](https://github.com/slidoapp/dbt-superset-lineage). 😉
Also, I'd note that column descriptions are visible upon hovering over an "i" icon next to column names when creating/amending charts in Explore.
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