Object Configuration¶

Objects Overview
- Identifying the object ID
- Creating a new object
Object Settings
- When to click the Refresh Elasticsearch button..
The Impact of the Object Configuration on the Feeder Front end
- Accessing hidden objects
Cloning Objects (Full Procedure)
- Cloning to another Feeder instance
- Cloning within the same Feeder instance

Attributes

Hint

The difference of an object and an attribute:

What kind of data shall be modeled? => object
Which fields are required to describe the object? => attributes

A typical example would be modeling an employee profile (object) with fields for first name, last name, date of birth etc. (attributes)

Objects Overview¶

Clicking the Object Configuration tile will open a view of all implemented objects
Only system administrators can access this sub-menu and change the data model in Feeder!

New: Will open a new input screen.

Export: Will output a json-file.

Import: Requires a json-file. Please be careful, Feeder does not allow delta imports here!

Identifying the object ID¶

The export and import functionalities are relevant in case that a data object shall be cloned. Therefore, it is also important to detect and work with the object ID.

You may find the object ID in the objects.json file. A json-file with 1 object only, looks like this:

Alternatively you may find the object’s internal ID when opening the object’s tile on the workspace and taking a look at the URL:

Creating a new object¶

The following screenshots demonstrate the first steps of creating a new object named “SF_User”.

Steps

Fill in a name and labels
Click Save - this will open more options
Upload images that will be shown on the Feeder workspace (optional)

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Steps (continued)

Create at least 1 attribute (field)
Add this field to the Global View of Fields section (!)

Hint

Clicking the green bar will close the object settings and thus require less scrolling effort.

Object Settings¶

Name

Set a system field name (after saving it cannot be changed anymore)
Translate the system field name in the input box to the right (label)
Please watch the language that you are translating to (en, de, etc.)!
E.g. “SF_User” could be displayed in the browser as “SuccessFactors User”

Description

The text shows in the objects overview and
When hovering over the object tile on the workspace

Columns in list view (Global View of Fields)

Specify what fields are to be shown when opening an object (tile)
These can be searched by using the regular search box

Tab Label

Show these fields when opening a data record in the front end
E.g. [%LASTNAME%],[%FIRSTNAME%]
will display object label - last name, first name

Duplicate Check

Helps to identify potential duplicates
Please read more here: Duplicate Check

Time Slice Migration Script: Please read more here Rule-based Value Changes In Future Time Slice

Hide Tile: When enabled, the tile is hidden from the Pentos Feeder workspace

Language File

Download

Returns a json-file of one language with all translations (objects / attributes / choices)

Upload

Upload a json-file of one language with all translations (objects / attributes / choices)

CSV Import/Export Configurations

Important

As of Feeder v2.3 , you may download or upload Import and Export Configurations via CSV. If you want to copy your settings from one to another Feeder instance, this might be a convenient way to do so.

Download

Returns a csv-file of your import/export settings

Upload

Upload a csv-file of your import/export settings

Upload Image

Upload a visual representation (image) of the data object on the Pentos Feeder workspace.

The file names need to adhere to the following naming conventions:

tile_ CUSTOM _normal.png
tile_ CUSTOM _clicked.png
tile_ CUSTOM _hover.png

For example:

tile_ employees _normal.png
tile_ employees _clicked.png
tile_ employees _hover.png

When to click the Refresh Elasticsearch button..¶

Important

When to click the Refresh Elasticsearch (Rebuild Index) button (v2):

Creating a new object otherwise you cannot open the tile and access the data

Creating a new attribute otherwise the search results are not 100% correct

Deleting an attribute

Enabling/ disabling the Full-Text Search flag

Changing the data type of a field

The Impact of the Object Configuration on the Feeder Front end¶

The following screenshot shows the relevant object settings. Further down you will find the effects on the frontend.

Hovering the mouse pointer over a tile will display the object description.

Clicking on the tile will open the (data) standard view with the given order of the attributes (column headers).

When opening a record, the specified attributes are displayed as tab labels. In the given example you will find the object’s label as well as the lastname and firstname of the SF User record:

Accessing hidden objects¶

In case that your object is hidden from the workspace, please click on the link right next to the Hide Tile naming.

Cloning Objects (Full Procedure)¶

Cloning to another Feeder instance¶

Export the objects (objecttypes.json)

Export the attributes (attributes.json)

Export attribute choices (attributechoices.csv)

Import the objects into the new Feeder system

Import the attributes

Import the attribute choices

Cloning within the same Feeder instance¶

Alter the job from above:

In objecttypes.json:

remove unwanted objects

remove the object’s internal ID

Feeder will auto-generate a new object ID at import

Alternatively, create a new object

Find out and save the new object ID to the clip board

In attributes.json:

replace the old object ID with the new object ID

repeat the last step for every attribute so that it is assigned to the new object

For all attributes change their internal IDs too e.g. by changing the last character!

Then save the modified file

In the Object Configuration, open the new object

Import the attributes.json

Import the attributechoices.csv file (optional)

Important

Please be very careful and do not confuse the object ID with the attribute IDs!