Complex Fields

no specialisation

Contains as value a list of metadata fields

Browses

MultiItemField

Contains as value a list of simple fields. 

• The string value of sub fields are trimmed and empty values are ignored

• The sub fields have no order

• The sub fields can be duplicate on their key, but their value must differ (case insensitive)

Authors

ListField

MultiItemField

• ListField is a specialised MultiItemField where all sub fields must have the same (predefined) key

• This allows for representing the value as a list

Keywords

MapField

MultiItemField

• MapField is a specialized MultiItemField where all sub fields have a unique key.

• This allows for representing the value as a (hash) map

Versioning

PositionField

MapField

• PositionField is a specialised MapField with following sub fields

  • Location is a GeoCoordinateField

  • Address contains the formatted address line

  • Country (optional)

  • Area (optional)

  • SubArea (optional)

  • Postal (optional)

  • Locality (optional)

  • SubLocality (optional)

  • Street (optional)

• The system automatically fills out Location or Address if one of the two is missing

• See the field Position as example in Metadata 21.2

Position

21.2

OrderedMultiItemField

ComplexField

Contains as value a list of simple fields. 

• The string value of sub fields are trimmed and empty values are ignored

• The sub fields have a strict order

• The sub fields can be duplicate on their key, but their value must differ (case sensitive)

• When adding a sub field which already exists it will moved to the end of the list

Profiles

21.2

ComplexMapField

ComplexField

• ComplexMapField is a specialized ComplexField where all sub fields have a unique key but opposed to MapField some children are themselves ComplexField

• This allows for representing the value as a (hash) map

Browses.Browse

ComplexListField

ComplexField

Contains as value a list of complex fields

• All sub fields must have the same (predefined) key

• Each sub field must have a distinct value

• When adding a sub field which already exists it will moved to the end of the list

• This allows for representing the value as a list

LimitedCategories

21.3

Thesaurus Field

MapField

Contains a single concept from a thesaurus. See Thesaurus Field for more information.

Category child of

LimitedCategories

21.3

TimerField

MapField

Contains 2 sub fields

• ExpectedDate of type DateField

  • Sets the date when the record timer should fire

• EffectiveDate of type DateField

  • Date at which the record timer acted on the record

22.4