Feature Requests Metadata structure

Hi!

I have some feature requests regarding Metadata Structure,

1. We are using a lot of Classes in our vaults.

It would be nice if when you are editing a class and takes "Ok" that you comes back to where you were.

Now you come back to the top and need to scroll down again if you are editing many classes.
(this work as wanted under Property Definitions).

2. Comments. Saw an old ticket about this but it was closed. It was about having a Notes-field to a class or property. 
This would be good also on value lists and objects. Also it would be nice if you could have a register of "Projects" or what a good name would be and have this on all structure so that you easily find all related properties, classes etc that is related to a project. Best would be to have a multiselect if it can belong to several projects.

3. Add the possibility to add a property to several classes at once

  • Point 3 is possible already. When you select a class group you can add a property to some or all of the classes in that group in one operation.

  • Thanks for the feedback! I've recorded it for the team responsible for the admin experience.

  • Sorry that I didn't get to reply directly earlier but, as Joonas knows very well, that feedback item is routed directly to me.  Thanks Joonas. Slight smile 

    I'd really like you to explain a little what you're after with point 2.

    You mention having a "notes" field for classes, properties, value lists, and then "objects" (do you mean object types, or actual objects?).  Would this be some content visible for administrators, or some content you expect to be shown in the client?  Can you give some examples of what you would use this for?

    You also then talk about a register of projects in the same point.  This would be some mechanism for tying structure together?  I can see the benefit of understanding that graph of relationships (especially considering change management), but is this exactly what you're thinking about?  Again: can you give some specific use-cases?

  • Hi!
    I was thinking only for an administrator.

    I our case we have at the moment a vault that contains 3 different use cases (and yes it has been discussed if there should be more vaults instead but we have some metadata that connect things and therefor I would like to keep it together in one vault Slight smile ).

    So a note field could be like more explaining why a property definition is made and how it is used if is isn't clear from the title.

    About the register of projects is exactly as you write, to tying the structure together. One use case could be when doing export/import between vaults if it could be added to filter on project. But mostly I would say it would be good just to have a good structure

  • I understand.

    For the first point: we do have description fields available for workflows and states, but not wider.  I can see the value here, although I have another proposal which maybe ties the two together...

    What if we were able to gather together information about how an item "sits" within the system, and use that to generate a description and visualisation?  For example: we know that a property is used by some views, it's a precondition in a workflow, it's included in some metadata card configuration, and it's referenced in a vault application configuration.  All of that together would give you a real-life (and living) view of what the property definition does in the system, rather than just a piece of text which may only give you a snapshot of part of what that property did at one point in time.

    This is a theoretical "what if we had this" question right now.  If we had something like this, would it perhaps give you the context you were after?

  • Wow that would be super awesome if that could be made! Much better then my suggestion since it would like you say be updated all the time and you wouldn't have to worry if you´re about to delete something if it is use or where.