Building a good data product means getting several things right at once: a clear identity, an accountable owner, the right data, clean interfaces, a contract that states its guarantees, and enough completeness to be trusted. Each of these is a concept in its own right — domains, ports, contracts, ownership, quality. The Data Product Wizard exists so you do not have to assemble them by hand or hold the whole model in your head.

The wizard guides you through the decisions in order, enforces the rules that keep a product valid, and produces a complete, standards-conformant product ready to publish to the Data Market. Use it whenever you create a data product: it is the fastest way to build one correctly, and every rule it enforces is a rule that keeps your product high quality and safe for others to depend on.

The six steps

The wizard walks you through six steps. Each one adds a layer to the product, and each has its own detailed page.

  1. Step 1 — Basics: the product’s identity and where it lives — Space, domain, name, ID, type, visibility, and the description consumers read first.
  2. Step 2 — Ownership: who is accountable — the Owner, required to publish, plus optional Steward, Custodian, SME, and Producer.
  3. Step 3 — Data Assets: the catalog assets the product is built from.
  4. Step 4 — Ports: the output ports that expose data to consumers, and the input ports that record what it consumes.
  5. Step 5 — Contracts: the optional data contract that governs what each port delivers.
  6. Step 6 — Review and publish: the completeness check, then park the product in announcement or publish it to production.

Before you start

The wizard assumes a few things are already in place:

  • The Data Product Standard application is added to your Space.
  • The domain your product belongs to exists.
  • The data assets you want to include are already cataloged in Dawiso (scanned or added manually).

Launch the wizard

In the top navigation, click + Create and, under Wizards, select Create Data Product.

Tip

The wizard autosaves your progress as a draft. If you leave and return, a banner offers to Resume draft or Start over, so an interrupted product is never lost. You can also reopen a product in the wizard later to edit it, jumping straight to the step you need.

Save for later or publish

At the last step you choose what happens to the product:

  • Save for later keeps the product in the announcement workflow state. It is not visible in the Data Market, and it does not need an Owner — use it to park a product you are still working on.
  • Publish now moves the product to production — live, listed as trusted, and shoppable in the Data Market. This requires an Owner: without one, Publish now stays disabled.

You can publish only once every completeness item is resolved. See Step 6 — Review and publish for the full checklist.

Tip

Work through the steps in order the first time. Each step builds on the one before it: ports need assets, contracts cover ports, and the review step checks the whole product.

To see the whole flow with concrete values — a real domain, real assets, and a contract with service levels — follow Build your first data product. Before you publish, check the product against the Pre-publish checklist.