Source Node

A Source Node points at data that already lives in your warehouse. Coalesce does not create the underlying source object. You register it so downstream Stage, Dimension, Fact, and View Nodes can read from it.

Source Nodes are mostly read-only in the Node editor. You can adjust metadata such as description or Storage Location mapping, but transformations happen in Nodes downstream.

In onboarding, teams often connect Source Nodes to landing-zone schemas fed by ingestion tools before building staging and mart layers.

See Nodes and Node Types for default Node Types.