Tips for Creating Entities and Terms

Before you define vocabulary entities and terms, review the structure of the tables that input values will come from. Vocabularies should be structured similarly to these tables to ensure that terms are mapped correctly to input columns. Coordinate your work with the groups that will use the vocabulary. Coordination helps ensure that the vocabulary structure meets their requirements.

Boolean data can be represented with terms that are defined either as Boolean data types or as Character data types. In some cases, Boolean values might be better represented by using terms defined as Character. For example, if your data already uses yes and no for Boolean data, then you probably want to use a Character term to process these values rather than try to translate those values to true and false.