DataFlux Data Management Studio 2.6: User Guide
You can create new entity definitions or modify existing definitions before you use them in master data projects. These entity definitions are used to process the source data that is loaded into the projects, and the entity attributes that you include in the projects affects the data that comes out of them. It is assumed that you have created a Master Data Projects repository.
Perform the following tasks to prepare your entity definitions:
You can create new entity definitions or manage existing definitions from the Folders riser. The following actions are available from the toolbar in the Entity Definitions pane. You can access this pane by clicking the Entity Definitions folder in the repository that you created for your master data projects:
You can open an entity definition to review QKB locales, add or edit attributes, modify clustering conditions, or review settings. Perform the following steps:
Note that when you change you edit an existing entity definition, you must rebuild your master data foundation project. This edition process regenerates the jobs that are created to support your entity definition, replacing the previous locale specification in nodes that need it with the edited version.
You can re-save an existing entity definition and use it as the template for a new definition. Perform the following steps:
Note that the GIVEN_NAME2 and SURNAME2 entity attributes have been deleted and a clustering condition added to the GIVEN_NAME1 attribute.
You can open an entity definition created in any version of DataFlux Data Management Studio. For example, you can open an entity definition created in a version of DataFlux Data Management Studio earlier than 2.3. However, if you modify that entity definition and save the changes, the saved definition cannot be opened in the earlier version of DataFlux Data Management Studio.
You can also open an entity definition created in SAS MDM in DataFlux Master Data Foundations in DataFlux Data Management Studio because DataFlux Master Data Foundations and SAS MDM share a common format for entity definition files. However, SAS MDM supports entity attributes and multiple entities that are not supported in DataFlux Master Data Foundations.
Therefore, you can open a SAS MDM entity definition that contains entity attributes in DataFlux Master Data Foundations, but they are ignored and not saved. Similarly, you SAS MDM can open a SAS MDM entity definition that contains multiple entities in DataFlux Master Data Foundations, but you must select only one entity to open and the only that entity is included when the file is saved. Note that you can use Save As to save the modified entity definition under a new name and leave the original entity definition intact, with its multiple entities and entity attributes preserved.
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