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Automatically renegated entity attributes
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While talking to some work colleagues, I had an idea regarding the way entities are created and the process that ends up happening almost every time.

Regardless of the Entity about to be created, there are a few attributes that end up always being present, such as:

  • CreatedAt
  • UpdatedAt
  • CreatedBy
  • UpdatedBy
  • IsActive
  • "Some generic business related attribute"

  • (...)

The idea here consists of a small menu that allows the user to create a default “Form” that will default the generic format of each Entity created on the module he's currently working on.

With this, any Entity (Non-Static) that gets created on that module automatically “Inherits” those attributes, already defined to the correct format, w/ descriptions etc.

This behaviour should be possible to turn On/Off with ease.


Any feedback would be appreciated,

Cheers!

15 Jul 2019
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2014-02-07 17-02-43
Vasco Pessanha
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15 Jul 2019
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Some of OutSystems' competitors automatically create these as part of the system without even asking you just check off what you need.


J.Ja

16 Jul 2019
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That would also be a way of doing it @Justin. Regardless how it would work, the feature seems simple enough to implement, and would simplify and fasten a lot of work.

I wasn't aware it was already something other platforms implemented, thank you for the info! 


Cheers!

17 Jul 2019
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Merged this idea with 'Creation of Entities with versioning attributes.' (created on 21 Feb 2020 11:31:34 by Miguel Verdasca)
28 Sep 2020
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Often we need to create tables with the possibility of creating a version, or at least with the data of who and when a given entry was created in the table, and who and when the last update was made. I would say that this happens in many situations.

What I suggest is because you do not create an option when creating an entity if we want to teach fields like the ones below automatically:

  • CreatedOn
  • CreatedBy
  • LastUpdatedOn
  • LastUpdatedBy
  • CreateByWorkStation
  • UpdatedByWorkStation

In this way, we guarantee the coherence of attribute names throughout the data model.

Cheers,

Nuno Verdasca





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- originally posted on idea 'Creation of Entities with versioning attributes.' (created on 21 Feb 2020 by Miguel Verdasca)
- merged to idea 'Automatically renegated entity attributes' on 28 Sep 2020 15:47:38 by Daniël Kuhlmann
21 Feb 2020
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Merged this idea with 'Accelerator for control attributes' (created on 05 Feb 2021 17:32:02 by Daniel Tavares)
07 Feb 2021
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When creating entities, it would be useful to quickly add attributes generally used in a number of entities, namely the following:


  • isActive
  • CreatedBy
  • CreationDate
  • LastChangedBy
  • LastChangedDate




This comment was:
- originally posted on idea 'Accelerator for control attributes' (created on 05 Feb 2021 by Daniel Tavares)
- merged to idea 'Automatically renegated entity attributes' on 07 Feb 2021 10:01:41 by Daniël Kuhlmann
05 Feb 2021
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We could spare some time when adding the same control attributes to various entities.



This comment was:
- originally posted on idea 'Accelerator for control attributes' (created on 05 Feb 2021 by Daniel Tavares)
- merged to idea 'Automatically renegated entity attributes' on 07 Feb 2021 10:01:41 by Daniël Kuhlmann
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Nice idea, and good written! But it already exists since 2019 so I will merge it into the that once.



This comment was:
- originally posted on idea 'Accelerator for control attributes' (created on 05 Feb 2021 by Daniel Tavares)
- merged to idea 'Automatically renegated entity attributes' on 07 Feb 2021 10:01:41 by Daniël Kuhlmann
07 Feb 2021
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