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Manage Collections with Attu

This topic describes how to manage collections with Attu.

Create a collection

  1. Click the Collection icon on the left-side navigation pane and then click Create Collection. The Create Collection dialog box appears as shown below.

Create Collection dialog box
The Create Collection dialog box.

  1. Enter the required information. This example creates a collection named test with a primary key field, a vector field, and a scalar field. You can add scalar fields as needed.

Create Collection dialog box
Enter required information.

  1. Click Create to create a collection.

Create Collection dialog box
Create a collection.

Delete a collection

  1. Tick the collection you want to delete in the data grid.
  2. Click the Trash icon and the Delete Collection dialog box appears as shown below.
  3. Type delete to confirm the deletion.
  4. Click Delete to delete the collection.
Deleting a collection is irreversible.

Delete Collection dialog box
Delete a collection.

Load a collection

  1. Hover on the collection you want to load, the Load icon appears on the right end of the entry.

Load Collection
The load icon.

  1. Click the Load icon and the Load Collection dialog box appears.
  2. Click Load in the Load Collection dialog box.

Load Collection
Click load button.

  1. Loading a collection might take a while. If successful, Loaded For Search appears in the Status column.

Load Collection
Load status.

Release a collection

  1. Hover on the loaded collection you want to release, the Release icon appears on the right end of the entry.

Release Collection
The release icon.

  1. Click the Release icon and the Release Collection dialog box appears.
  2. Click Release in the Release Collection dialog box.
  3. If successful, the Status becomes Unloaded in the Status column.

Release Collection
Release status.

View the schema of a collection

  1. Click the name of the collection that you want to view the schema of, and the corresponding detail page appears.
  2. Click Schema on the detail page, which lists the information of all fields.

Attributes of a schema include:

  • Field Name
  • Field Type
  • Dimension (Only applies to vector fields)
  • Index Type (Only applies to vector fields)
  • Index Parameters (Only applies to vector fields)
  • Collection description

Collection Schema
View collection schema.

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