Where Snowflake listings and shares appear in Atlan
Once Atlan crawls Snowflake listings and shares, they appear as their own assets, and the SQL assets inside a share show which shares they belong to. This reference covers what each surface shows, which Atlan property backs each field, and how to move between a listing, its share, and the assets in that share.
For what Atlan reads from Snowflake to populate these assets, see What does Atlan crawl from Snowflake?. For the grants required before any of this appears, see Permissions for Snowflake listings and shares.
Listings and shares are additive metadata. Atlan crawls them only when the connection uses the Information Schema extraction method, and only the listings and shares the connection role is privileged to see. If a crawl completes but no listings or shares appear, confirm the extraction method and the grants first. Nothing in the interface indicates a permissions gap.
Listing asset profiles
Atlan catalogs each Snowflake Marketplace listing as a SnowflakeListing asset. Listings are account-level objects, so they sit directly under the connection rather than inside a database or schema.
The overview sidebar shows:
| Field | Atlan property | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
| Wrapped share | snowflakeShares | The share this listing distributes. Select it to open that share. |
| Title | snowflakeListingTitle | The listing title as set in Snowflake. |
| Subtitle | snowflakeListingSubtitle | The listing subtitle. |
| State | snowflakeListingState | One of PUBLISHED, DRAFT, UNPUBLISHED, or LIVE. |
| Distribution | snowflakeListingDistribution | ORGANIZATION for listings shared inside your organization, EXTERNAL for listings published outside it. |
| Application package | snowflakeListingApplicationPackage | The application package backing a Snowflake Native App listing. |
| Categories | snowflakeListingCategories | The Marketplace categories the listing is filed under. |
The properties sidebar shows the remaining Snowflake-side detail:
| Field | Atlan property |
|---|---|
| Uniform listing locator | snowflakeListingUniformListingLocator |
| Is share-type | snowflakeListingIsShare |
| Is application-type | snowflakeListingIsApplication |
| Profile | snowflakeListingProfile |
| Support contact | snowflakeListingSupportContact |
| Resharing | snowflakeListingResharing |
| Auto-fulfillment | snowflakeListingAutoFulfillment |
| Terms of service | snowflakeListingTerms |
| Data attributes | snowflakeListingDataAttributes |
| Targets | snowflakeListingTargets |
Wrapped share is the entry point from a listing into the data it publishes.
Share asset profiles
Atlan catalogs each Snowflake share as a SnowflakeShare asset, covering both inbound shares your account consumes and outbound shares your account provides. Shares are also account-level objects.
The overview sidebar shows:
| Field | Atlan property | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
| Published as listing | snowflakeListing | The listing that distributes this share, when that listing was also crawled. Select it to open the listing. |
| Kind | snowflakeShareKind | inbound for a share consumed from a provider, outbound for a share your account provides. Atlan displays this value in lowercase. |
| Owner account | snowflakeShareOwnerAccount | The account that owns the share. For an inbound share, this is the provider. |
| Target accounts | snowflakeShareTargetAccounts | The accounts an outbound share is shared with, one chip per account. |
| Secure objects only | snowflakeShareSecureObject | Yes when the share exposes only secure objects. |
The properties sidebar shows Listing reference (snowflakeShareListingGlobalName), the global name of the listing that distributes the share, which you can copy.
Assets in shares
To see the assets a share contains, open the Related assets tab on the share's asset profile. The tab lists the SQL assets granted to that share, with a search box and grouping by asset type, so you can narrow a large share down to one type of asset. A share can hold a large number of assets, so use this tab to browse a share rather than to read off a complete inventory.
Shares on SQL asset profiles
A SQL asset that belongs to one or more shares gains a Shares section listing them. Each share renders as a chip carrying the Snowflake icon and the share name. Selecting a chip opens a preview of that share, from which you can open the full share asset profile.
The section heading reads Share for a single share and Shares with a count, such as Shares (4), for more than one. When an asset belongs to more shares than the section displays at once, the extra shares collapse behind a + N more control that you can expand and then collapse again with See less. Past 20 shares, the section becomes a scrollable list instead of expanding.
The section appears only when the asset actually belongs to a share, so assets outside any share show no empty section. Where it appears depends on the asset type:
| Asset type | Asset profile | Asset preview |
|---|---|---|
Table | Yes | Yes |
View | Yes | Yes |
MaterialisedView | Yes | Yes |
SnowflakeDynamicTable | Yes | Yes |
CalculationView | No | Yes |
TablePartition | No | Yes |
Column | No | Yes |
Database and Schema assets don't carry the Shares section. For a database created from an inbound share, the originating share appears in the imported database indicator instead. For a schema, open its parent database or one of its tables to see share context.
Imported database assets
A database created in your account from an inbound share is an imported database. Atlan marks these with an Imported database badge on the database's asset profile and preview, alongside:
| Field | Atlan property | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
| Imported from share | sqlShareQualifiedNames | The share the database was imported from, taken from the first entry of the property. Select it to open a preview of that share. |
| Provider account | sqlOriginAccountGuid | The identifier of the Snowflake account that provided the share. |
Each row appears only when Atlan has the corresponding value, so a database can show the badge with just one of the two rows populated.
Navigate between listings, shares, and assets
These surfaces connect in both directions:
- From a listing, select Wrapped share to reach the share it distributes.
- From a share, select Published as listing to return to the listing, or open the Related assets tab to browse the assets the share contains.
- From a table, view, or other SQL asset, select a chip in the Shares section to reach any share the asset belongs to.
- From an imported database, select Imported from share to reach the share the database came from.
See also
- What does Atlan crawl from Snowflake?: The Snowflake properties Atlan reads to populate listing and share assets.
- Permissions for Snowflake listings and shares: The grants the Atlan service account needs before listings and shares appear.
- Crawl Snowflake: Configure and run the Snowflake crawler.