Hi Team, I am trying to build custom entity as a top level entity but there is no proper documentation available and how to build so? Can anyone provide some insight to it? I saw recent push in the datahub where datahub team added ownershiptype as a top level entity. It looks that whole datahub needs to be build for top-level entity unlike custom aspect. For custom aspect we can utilise metadata-model-custom, but for custom entity as a top-level entity there is no such method if I am not wrong... But since I have to make custom entity as a top level entity...can anyone from datahub team guide on the same, it would be very helpful.

Hi, have you seen this guide? https://datahubproject.io/docs/metadata-modeling/extending-the-metadata-model

Yes - to add a new entity type we have various changes. In the case of the ownership type entity, it was a bit more work because we had to support special functionality around it inside the UI

Yes...I saw that extending metadata model documentation and was able make custom aspect and was able to ingest custom metadata under dataset entity. I wanted to know if we make custom entity in the metadata-custom-models and I want show it on the UI then what we need to do? In the doc, https://datahubproject.io/docs/metadata-modeling/extending-the-metadata-model, step 7 is optional, but without step 7 we cannot show our custom entity on the UI right?

Unfortunately to have entities appear in the UI, it requires extension with graphQL models and additional react code- so it isn’t no code