---
title: "Asset Discovery: Add and Search Descriptions"
url: "https://atlan.com/demos/add-and-search-description/"
excerpt: "Add descriptions to your assets and find them fast! Experience hands-on how Atlan's properties filter revolutionizes your data discovery."
description: "Add descriptions to your assets and find them fast! Experience hands-on how Atlan's properties filter revolutionizes your data discovery."
format: "Arcade"
demo_url: "https://demo.arcade.software/YGKCiVCoBqTlpE6pIFQ7"
thumbnail: "https://images.ctfassets.net/nwa1c00rtgxb/44yxhc3OH5hNNn5YEB8ElN/3fb35de570a85f00863df65daf24a3e7/asset-discovery-add-and-search-descriptions.webp"
content_purpose: ["Product Overview"]
target_persona: ["General", "Business User"]
journey_stage: ["S2 - Discovery", "C1 - Onboarding", "C4 - Expansion"]
use_case_context: ["Training"]
product: ["Data Marketplace - Data Discovery"]
published: "2025-10-01"
updated: "2026-06-02"
content_type: "interactive demo step summary"
transcript_source: "arcade-steps"
---

> Atlan is hosting Context Conference, bringing together the leaders and builders at the frontier of giving AI the context it needs to understand their business. It runs online on October 28, 2026, from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM ET. Atlan co-founder Prukalpa Sankar opens and closes the day. Leaders from AstraZeneca, BNY and Verizon share why they invest in context and what they get from it. Registrants get early access to The AI Context Gap, a new study from MIT Technology Review Insights. Register: https://atlan.com/context-conference/

# Asset Discovery: Add and Search Descriptions

Step-by-step summary of the interactive demo at https://atlan.com/demos/add-and-search-description/

Add descriptions to your assets and find them fast! Experience hands-on how Atlan's properties filter revolutionizes your data discovery.

## What the demo walks through

1. Enrich your data assets with descriptions
2. Add descriptions to tables, views, and even individual columns
3. Provide relevant contextual information. In this example, we'll enter a description
4. Click anywhere on the screen to save your changes
5. Filter your assets by the keywords in your descriptions
6. Enter keywords and set your matching conditions
7. (Optional) Add multiple description filters