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CSA Loom — the Microsoft Fabric experience for Azure tenants where Fabric isn't yet available: lakehouses, warehouses, notebooks, semantic models, Activator rules, Data Agents, across Commercial, GCC, GCC-High, and DoD IL5

Tutorial: Data marketplace editor

CSA Loom data-marketplace — the consumer discovery hub for Published data products: faceted search, governance-domain cards, and access requests, backed by Azure AI Search. Part of the unified Loom Marketplace (/marketplace). No Microsoft Fabric required.

What it is

The Data marketplace is the consumer-facing discovery surface for the tenant's Published data products. It searches a dedicated Azure AI Search index (loom-data-products) that mirrors every Published data-product item, with faceted navigation over governance domain, type, owner, glossary terms, and critical data elements (CDEs).

When to use it

  • You're a data consumer looking for governed, endorsed data products across the tenant.
  • You're a producer who wants your data product discoverable with an SLA, owner, and glossary context.
  • You need a durable access-request trail from discovery to real Azure RBAC.

Step-by-step in Loom

  1. Open the marketplace. Navigate to /marketplace (Data tab) or open the Data marketplace item from the catalog.
  2. Discover. Search the live index — wrap a term in double quotes for an exact-phrase match. Use the left facet panel to filter by domain, type, owner, glossary term, or CDE. Only Published products in your tenant appear.
  3. Explore by domain. The Domains tab shows a card per governance domain with a live product count from the index facet aggregate; click a card to filter Discover to that domain.
  4. Publish (producers). Create a data product (workspace, name, domain, type, owner, glossary terms, CDEs, SLA) and set it Published to make it visible to consumers — Draft and Deprecated products are hidden from consumer search.
  5. Request & track access. Request access from any result; the request is recorded durably. The My data access tab lists your requests and their status — owners grant access in Governance → Policies (real Azure RBAC).

The Azure backend it rides on

  • Search: a dedicated Azure AI Search index (loom-data-products) with facet aggregates.
  • Access: durable request records + real Azure RBAC grants on approval.

No Fabric required

Discovery is Azure AI Search; grants are Azure RBAC. No Fabric, OneLake, or Power BI dependency.

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