Data Catalog Categories

Create and manage event categories in your Data Catalog.

This guide walks you through creating and managing your event categories in your Data Catalog.

Required permissions

  • Admins have full access to manage event properties in the Data Catalog.
  • Members must have the following permission in their workspace policy:
ResourcePermission
Description
Data CatalogEditMake changes to the configuration of Data Catalog

Click here to see how these permissions appear in the workspace policy.
Data Catalog permissions to manage properties

Permissions for legacy RBAC system

In the legacy Permissions Management (RBAC) system:

  • Org Admins have full access to manage the Data Catalog
  • Members must have the Connections Admin role in their workspace policy to manage event categories in the Data Catalog
Data Catalog permissions in the legacy framework

Manage event categories

You can associate an event in the Data Catalog with a category it best fits into.

  1. Go to the Events tab and click Select category.
  2. Choose a category from the dropdown.
Data catalog categories

RudderStack provides the following categories by default:

  • Conversion
  • General
  • Marketing
  • Onboarding

Assign a custom category

Apart from the default categories mentioned above, you can also assign a custom category to an event by clicking Select category and entering the required category name.

Data catalog custom category

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