Empower your assets with clickable buttons- with the new URL badges
🎉 What's new
Your organization's "next step" for a data asset may live somewhere else: an access-request form, open in modeling tool or view relevant policies on a separate policy portal. You can now put that step right on the asset as a button.
Create a badge on a URL custom metadata property and Atlan shows it as a clear, clickable button with the destination site's icon. One click takes your users there in a new tab.
✨ Let's dig deeper
- URL badges show as buttons, with the linked site's favicon, wherever badges appear: the asset side pane, data products and domains.
- Each asset carries its own link. Hence every table, term, product, domain etc. can point to the right form, owner page or contract
- Turn on Display at the top of the profile and the button moves into the profile header, next to Request data access (if you have governance workflows turned on)
- Use case include for "Request access in ITSM tool", "View data tickets" or "Sign off on access policies". Users see it the moment they land on the asset.
- Works with the custom metadata you already have. Add a badge to an existing URL property and every asset with a value gets the button right away.
🌍 Where does this work?
- Go to Governance → Custom Metadata and open a property of type URL (or create one).
- Select Create badge. Give it a name your users will recognise, like "Request access".
- Optionally, turn on Display at the top of the profile.
- Add the link to your assets. Bulk-update through the custom metadata spreadsheet or API works too.
Why it matters: Your users' visual scanning reduces and they find the context ready links as buttons- encouraging them to take the next logical action after landing on the right asset.
👏 Give it a shot
Configure your buttons from badges today and let us know what use cases you are solving with this or any feedback you might have!