Programmatically Adding Column Descriptions in Pipeline Builder

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Hi Palantir community,

I am familiar with two methods of adding descriptions to columns on datasets:

  1. Manually via the dataset frontend
  2. Programmatically in authoring via the column_description parameter in the write_dataframe function.

Is there an equivalent to 2) available in Pipeline Builder? I didn’t see anything in transform boards, but wondering if it might be part of output settings.

Looking to either have a board where we can input/maintain the descriptions for multiple tables, or a way to pull a mapping from column names to column descriptions from another dataset.

Thanks,
Dustin

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There is no transform function in Pipeline Builder that supports adding descriptions on columns. This is a feature that we are tracking but need further scoping, no clear timeline though.

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Hi! Just to confirm, is the ability to programmatically read column descriptions also currently unsupported in Pipeline Builder?