In this tab, you complete the fields of the User Entity
whose structure is defined in the Meta Entity it is related to.
About this task
There are several possibilities to complete the fields of
the User Entity. You can either add all the fields in a Data Element
description or add the fields one by one? You can also enter the required fields only
with a cardinality
1-1.
Procedure
- Open the Description tab of a User
Entity.
- When you open a new User Entity, the structure table is
empty. If you click Add all Fields, the structure
that is defined in the Meta Entity is duplicated. The root Data Aggregate
is displayed at the top level of a tree structure, and the other Data
Aggregates at lower levels with all their Data Element descriptions.
- The other possibility is to add the fields one by one as
follows:
- Click Add Field to display the
root Data Aggregate.
- Click Add Field again. It opens
a selection box in which you can select the child Data Element Aggregate
of your choice.
- Click Add value. Then, click
either Add all Fields to have all the fields
that are defined in the Meta Entity for this Data Aggregate description,
or click Add Field to select one field in the
selection box. If mandatory fields are defined in your Meta Entity,
click Add Required Fields to have them displayed
in your Data Element Aggregate, otherwise, an error is notified. You can duplicate a Data Aggregate and the fields it contains
by using Copy and Paste in
the menu.
- Enter values that fit the description of the Meta Entity,
otherwise, it can create errors. To do so, click the field and then
the value column, and enter a value.
- The lines that contain unique, sort,
or identifier fields, or whose type is string, byte,
or reference in the Meta Entity, include a button
that is displayed when you click their value column cell. It is used
to enter a series of values or to select an entity for a field that
is identified as a reference. Two other buttons are displayed on the
reference field lines. Click the first one to export the field to
a file in your browser, or click the second one to import a file from
the browser to the field.
- For a Data Aggregate, the column value automatically
shows the mandatory fields and their values.
- If you want to display a selection of fields in the User Entity
content, enter their names followed by a space in Field
Path Filter. Select Show field name to
see the labels and names of the fields that are displayed in the User
Entity.
- A table shows up in the Description detail section
for each Data Aggregate Description containing multiple values. Simple
fields only are displayed (integer, decimal, date, string, float,
byte, timestamp, reference with a maximum cardinality to 1) in the
Data Aggregate Description. Each column corresponds to a description.
If you click a column cell, the default value that is indicated in
the Meta Entity is displayed. However, it can be modified by entering
directly another value or by opening a dialog box for longer values.
Click + to add other lines in the table or − to delete them.
Results
Figure 1. Example of Description Detail table with multiple
values for simple fields in a Data Aggregate Description 