Why doesn’t @dbt_assets have group_name?

[dagsir[bot]]

Hey Everyone! Curious as to why @dbt_assets() doesn’t have group_name on it so you can put it in an asset_group

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The question was originally asked in Dagster Slack.

[tacastillo]

Hi! If you'd like to organize your dbt models in groups, you can either:

• use dbt's official group property to organize your models
• define the groups in the meta for a dbt model
• or you can override them and have Dagster manage them by overriding DagsterDbtTranslator's get_group_name method.

Both ways are covered in this section of our docs. https://docs.dagster.io/integrations/dbt/reference#customizing-group-names

Cheers!

[magidandrew]

I got stuck on this for a while...dagster pulls out the groupings out of the manifest.json

So even if you add these properties (group or meta) to your models, if you don't run dbt compile, then you will not see the asset groups change in the dagit ui

save yourself an hour, hope this helps!