Data Director Implementation Guide

10.5

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Customizing Column Labels

You can customize column labels in IDD at subject area level to distinguish identical column label that are used in multiple subject areas or to modify any column label. You must edit the

MetadataBundle.properties

file to customize the subject area column label. For example, consider a base object, Party with subject areas, Person and Organization. If you have the column label, Tax ID in both the subject areas, you can customize the column labels to distinguish between the subject areas.

To customize column labels of a subject area, perform the following steps:

If you changed the metadata in the Operational Reference Store, click

Clear Cache

Export the IDD application to a ZIP file.

Extract the application ZIP file.

Edit the

MetadataBundle.properties

file.

For example: To modify column label- Tax ID to Customer Tax ID, in the MetadataBundle.properties, edit Test.Person.COLUMN.C_PARTY|TAX_ID=Customer Tax ID.

In the IDD configuration manager, select the IDD application to replace the edited MetadataBundle.properties file.

Click the

Import

Button and select

Import to existing IDD application

In the

Import to existing IDD application

window, for

Configuration type

select

Metadata Bundle

Click