Natural Language Search

If natural language search is enabled on your tenant (and you have the appropriate role), the search field will propose example natural language strings that are appropriate to your current filter context. Select an example string or enter your own and SAP Datasphere will interpret it and filter your results accordingly.

Prerequisites

To use natural language search in the Data Products collection, it must be enabled in your tenant (see Enable SAP Business AI for SAP Datasphere) and you must also have a global role that grants you the following privileges:

  • Data Warehouse General (-R------) - To access SAP Datasphere.

  • Data Warehouse AI Consumption (–--–E--) - To use SAP Business AI features.

A combination of the Catalog Administrator global role, the DW AI consumer global role, and the DW Viewer role template (used directly as a global role) applied together, for example, grant these privileges. For more information, see Privileges and Permissions and Standard Application RolesStandard Roles Delivered with SAP Datasphere.

Using Natural Language Search

Entering a natural language search string allows you to quickly find data products without looking for specific filter settings. Natural language search is available for the data products, assets, terms, and key performance indicators (KPIs).
To use the natural language search, select the collection you want (Data Products, Assets, Terms, or KPIs) and enter a request. The use of natural language is not automatic and depends on the string entered:

  • One word - Natural language search is not used.

  • Two words - Natural language search is used if the standard search returns no results.

  • Three or more words - Natural language search is always used.

You can, at any time, choose the (Show AI-Generated Filter Conditions) to verify how SAP Datasphere interpreted the search phrase you entered.

You can enter requests that contain:

Request Feature

Examples

Conceptual grouping

  • show me data products with supply chain datasets

    • Returns all data products that are related to the supply chain line of business

  • show me an asset with revenue data

    • Returns all assets that are related to revenue data

  • show me all KPIs with lead conversion rates

    • Returns all KPIs that are related to lead conversion rates

  • show me terms related to revenue

    • Returns all terms that are related to revenue

and, or, and not combinations

  • industry agriculture and release status active

    • Returns all items in the selected collection that meet both conditions

  • industry agriculture or release status active

    • Returns all items in the selected collection that meet either condition

  • not industry agriculture

    • Returns all items in the selected collection that are in any industry except agriculture

Source properties, catalog properties, or other filter categories

  • data products named Sales with deployment region US East (NYC)

    • Returns all data products with "Sales" in their name and have US East (NYC) deployment region

  • show me published assets named regional sales that are of type story

    • Returns published assets with "regional sales" in their name and are of type story

  • terms that were published on {date}

    • Returns terms that were published on the specified date

  • published KPIs with status needs repair

    • Returns KPIs that have been published and a functional status "Needs Repair"

You can search text in the filter categories and these contents:

  • Data products

    • Name

    • Description

    • Formation ID

    • Related Entity Business Name

    • Related Entity Container Path

    • Related Entity Business Name

  • Assets

    • Source Name

    • Container Name

    • Formation Name

    • Related Glossary and Term Names

    • Publication Status

    • Source Business Name

    • Source Description

    • Catalog Edited Name

    • Catalog Summary

  • Terms

    • Glossary Name

    • Name

    • Publication Status

    • Related Objects

    • Definition

  • KPIs

    • Name

    • Summary

For a list of filter categories, see Filter Category Details.