Creating and Deleting Metadata Items

Creating Metadata Items

Before you create a new metadata item take these points into consideration:

• The creation of metadata items is not workflow-based. If you do not want the newly created items to be available immediately to all EDI Browser users, you must create them in the work-in-progress area. For more information, see Version Management.
• You only can create items in the namespace of existing items. For example, while you can create a database item in the namespace of an existing DB system item, you cannot create a new DB system item, because those items are stored on the top level (such as, they are not contained in another item’s namespace).

To create a new metadata item

1. Navigate to a table view that contains the item that spans the namespace for the item that you want to create.
2. Right-click the item, then select Create > <type of item you want to create> from the context menu.

The New Item dialog opens:



3. In the Enter item name field, enter a name for the new item.
4. In the Definition field, enter a definition for the item.
5. In the Description field, enter a description for the item.
6. From the Scope drop-down list, select a scope for the item.
7. In the Change Comment field, enter a comment for the creation of the item.
8. Click Create.

The created item opens in a new tab:



Unless you created the item in the work-in-progress area, it is now available to all EDI Browser users who have access to the current environment.