## What are partial assets?

URL: https://docs.atlan.com/product/capabilities/lineage/concepts/what-are-partial-assets

> Learn about what are partial assets?.

If a [supported data source](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/catalog/connector-capabilities/supported-sources/llms.txt) has not been crawled, mined, or cataloged via APIs but is present in lineage, Atlan will create partial assets to provide a complete representation of data lineage. For example, if your [orchestration pipelines](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/catalog/connector-capabilities/supported-sources/llms.txt) reference any assets as a source or target that are yet to be cataloged in Atlan, these will be represented as partial assets on the lineage graph.

Key characteristics of partial assets:

- Displayed with a dotted border on the lineage graph.
- Available in the visual representation of lineage in Atlan - lineage or pipeline view.
- You can search for and view a partial asset profile and lineage.
- You can not enrich metadata for partial assets.
- You can view metadata for partial assets in the sidebar.
- You can view and download the impact report for partial assets.
- Column-level lineage for partial assets is supported.

## Supported sources

Atlan currently supports the creation of partial assets for the following tools:

- [Airflow/OpenLineage](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/connectors/apache-airflow-openlineage/integrate-apache-airflow-openlineage/llms.txt)
- [Amazon MWAA/OpenLineage](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/connectors/amazon-mwaa-openlineage/integrate-amazon-mwaa-openlineage/llms.txt)
- [Astronomer/OpenLineage](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/connectors/astronomer-openlineage/integrate-astronomer-openlineage/llms.txt)
- [Google Cloud Composer/OpenLineage](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/connectors/google-cloud-composer-openlineage/integrate-google-cloud-composer-openlineage/llms.txt)
- [Apache Spark/OpenLineage](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/connectors/apache-spark-openlineage/integrate-apache-spark-openlineage/llms.txt)
- [Fivetran](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/connectors/fivetran/what-does-atlan-crawl-from-fivetran/llms.txt)

## View partial assets

There are multiple ways to view partial assets : 

### Like any asset in Atlan

 1. On the Atlan homepage, click on **all assets**.

 If you are using the **Old UI (Classic)**, from the left menu of any screen, click **Assets**.

 2. Search for asset by name, or use Atlan discovery filter to find partial assets.
 3. Click an asset to open its profile.

### From pipeline lineage or lineage graph 

 1. From the top left of an asset profile, click the **Lineage** tab to view lineage or the **Pipeline** tab for orchestration assets.
 2. A partial asset is represented with a dotted border on the lineage graph. Select a partial asset to view more details.
 - (Optional) Open the asset sidebar to view metadata, lineage, and properties of the partial asset, and navigate to the profile.
 3. Hover over the partial asset to view a metadata popover:
 - You can view the following details - asset name and type, connection, database, and schema names, and owner, if assigned.
 - Click the **View impact** button to [view impacted assets](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/catalog/lineage/download-and-export-lineage/llms.txt).
 - Click the **Download impact** button to [download the lineage report](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/catalog/lineage/download-and-export-lineage/llms.txt) for the asset.
 4. Click the **view columns** menu to view column assets.
 - Hover over any column name and then click the curved downward arrow to [view impacted assets](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/catalog/lineage/download-and-export-lineage/llms.txt) or click the straight downward arrow to [download the impact report](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/catalog/lineage/download-and-export-lineage/llms.txt) directly from the column.

## Convert partial assets to catalogued asstes 

To convert a partial asset into a fully published asset, complete the following steps in any order:
 - If the sourcer is supported, run the crawler for the [supported data source](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/catalog/connector-capabilities/supported-sources/llms.txt) of the partial asset.
 - Run the [orchestration pipeline](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/catalog/connector-capabilities/supported-sources/llms.txt) that initially cataloged the partial asset.

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