Create a New Model

Business Area

  1. Select Create New Model.

  2. Select a business area from the drop down.

    • Business areas are a way of grouping data models.

  3. Select Next.

Or

  1. Select + Create New to create a new business area.

  2. Enter a name for the new Business Area.

  3. Select Next.

Details

  1. Enter a unique ID for the model within ID. (This must be lowercase letters only.)

  2. Enter a user friendly name within Display Name.

  3. Enter a short description within Description.

  4. If you want to show this model with a specific colour enter a hex code within Default Colour.

  5. If you want to use a custom icon enter a file name within Default Icon.

    • The icon needs to be within the custom icons directory which is defined in app settings.

  6. Select the model type from Standard, Map or Sub Model.

    • Standard

      1. To have any property mappings added to file indices check Applies to Files.

      2. To have any property mappings added to file collections check Applies to Collection.

    • Map

      1. To Indicate the top most level of a data map check Root Level Model.

    • Sub Model

      1. Select the related model from the dropdown.

Attributes

If you are updating to Primo you will need to update your Geo-points attributes to work on the map lens.

  1. Add a Unique ID for the model attribute. (This must be lowercase letters only.)

  2. Enter a user friendly name for the model within Display Name.

  3. Select a Data Type for this attribute from the dropdown.

  4. Link attributes to other data models by selecting the Model from the Link to: Model dropdown.

    • This enables data navigation features within the app.

  5. Enter the user groups that can see this attribute.

  6. Add Notes to the attribute to describe the attribute.

  • Check Required if the attribute field is mandatory.

  • Check Multivalue if this attribute can have multiple values.

  • For a geo-point attribute check Surface on Map Lens to allow show this attribute on the map.

  • Check Searchable as Text to show a text field below for full-text search.

  • Check Visible to show the attribute in the front end.

  • Check Document Link if this attribute is linked to an entity used to show matching documents.

Display

  1. Enter the Number of Visible Data Properties that show per data result on page load.

  2. Check Show Hit Highlights to Highlight content in the search results.

    • Hit highlights will highlight the terms from your search that match your results.

  3. Check Show text on details page to view surface this information within the Details view.

Summary

Review all of the settings within the summary tab before saving.

Once you have published a model you can't edit the attributes.