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Property Model

The property model defines properties such as name, description, and data type.

You can configure the following properties in the

Property Model

panel:

Name: Property name.; A glossary administrator cannot change the property name.; If you create business glossary resources in Metadata Manager, do not use any of the following special characters in the property name:
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Metadata Manager does not extract custom properties with names that contain any of these characters.

Metadata Manager does extract custom properties with the following special characters in the property name:
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Description: Description of the property.; A glossary administrator can change the description of the property.

Value: Type of value that the property can hold. A glossary administrator cannot change the value type in another glossary.; You can set the following options for the value property:
Single Value. Indicates that the property can have only one value.
Multi-value. Indicates that the property can have more than value.; Default is Single Value.

Datatype: Type of input for the custom property. A glossary administrator cannot change the data type.
You can configure the following values for the data type property:

String. Indicates alphanumeric text. The maximum length of the alphanumeric text is 4000 characters.
Integer. Indicates integer input.
Boolean. Indicates a boolean input.
Date and Time. Indicates date and time. The content manager can select the date from a calendar.
Enum. Indicates that the content manager must provide an input from a list of enumerated values. You can define the list of values in the
Values
section after you select this option.
Long String. Indicates that the content manager can format the content in the property with rich text. There is no limit on the number of characters that the content managers can use when adding content to this property. The Search service does not index content added to the custom property of long string data type.; Default is String.

Search Rank: Priority of the current term in the list of search results when the user searches for the value of the property. A glossary administrator can change the search rank of the property.
You can set the search rank to one of the following values:
High. Indicates that the importance of the value entered for this property is high and the current term is listed on top of the search results.
Medium. Indicates that the importance of the value entered for this property is medium and no priority is attached to the search results.
Low. Indicates that the importance of the value entered for this property is low and the current term is listed at the bottom of the search results.

Default is medium.

You can select the following option in the

Options

section:

Searchable: Select the checkbox to make the property searchable. If the checkbox is selected, the Search Service indexes the values in this property. A glossary administrator can change the
Searchable
property.; This property is not selected by default.