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

2. 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

3. Click Create to create a collection.

Create Collection dialog box

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.

Delete Collection dialog box

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

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

Load Collection

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

Load Collection

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

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

Release Collection

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