300 Adapting The Data Model

Introduction

In Wedia’s data model objects and properties are the main entities. All changes and enhancements on both objects and properties can be made in the Object Management which is located in the administration space.

Figure 1. Administration

Figure 2. Administration > Object Management

Note	URL of the Object Management view ... /admin/ebnStructure?form_object=activated&form_action=StructureEdit

Note

General URL for displaying an object

... form_action=…&form_object=…&form_id=…

e.g. "http://mydomain.com/wcm.jspz?form_action=dataview&form_object=asset&form_id=123"

Important

The object’s name can be changed to get access to other objects (only in unsecure mode, see below for further information)

Create new object

Creating new objects will deliver all default features for editing (CRUD) and searching.

Click New object

→ New object will have nine fields by default
Click Data to switch to data view

→ There will be no link to go back to the administration view
Click New
Add data
Switch again to admin > object management

Tip
It is better to copy the objects asset, planning or contentobject instead of creating them new.
Add new properties

Note	It is possible to define some logic as well, but this has to be coded by a developer.

Create relationship between objects

Create new object, e.g. department
1. Create list of values
  
  → Switch to tab Data
2. Create new values
Select object which should be linked to the new object
Add property
1. Modify field Type to child
  
  Child
  1:1 (*)
  
  Child multiple
  1:n
  
  Child multiple long
  1:n
  
  Child multiple long relational
  1:n (*)
  
  (*) best choices
2. Set Nature (means: where do the values come from) choosing the source object
Save

Tagging objects

Select object
Click on Configuration tab
Click on tags tab
Add tag

Create a filter

Select object
Open property
Click tab tags
Select tag popinlist_search_group
Save

Full text search

Select object
Tab Configuration
1. Click on fulltext indexation
Tab Structure
1. Select property
2. Choose values to be indexed
3. Click Update properties
4. Click Indexation and choose indexonly
Switch to Admininistration > ElasticSearch
1. Set company name
2. Set index name

Search in other languages

Select object
Open property
Check Internationalizeable
Save

→ (i18n) will be added to name

→ Tab I18N will be visible

→ Tab Translations of the name will be visible
Edit other required languages

Note	Further languages can be enabled within the Data view of the object lang.

Thesaurus

You can access the page to maintain the thesaurus via the backend navigation:
Developer space > (THESAURUS Objects) Keyword

On this page words can be linked to manage keywords, e.g. “grey” to “color”. This will lead to different search results, e.g. a search for “color” will find “grey”.

Enable Thesaurus

Select the object assetkeyword
See properties Generic and Synonymof

→ both must be active

Analytics tab

Here are the same functions available as on the report pages (without export).

Remove Analytics tab

Select object
Click tab Configuration
Click tab Tags
Add remove_analytics tag to object

Note	Data is saved anyway, no analytic data is deleted

Child	1:1 (*)
Child multiple	1:n
Child multiple long	1:n
Child multiple long relational	1:n (*)
	(*) best choices