Customise Parents and Children Sections in Object Forms
The Parents and Children sections are automatically created in all Object forms. It is possible to customise or remove these sections, from the Settings, under Utilities.
Let’s consider an example. The default Experimental Step, present in all openBIS instances, looks like the picture below: in the Parents section, General Protocol is predefined. If we want to add a General Protocol to the form, we use the Search or Paste options next to General Protocol. If we want to add another parent, for example a Sample, we need to use the Search Any or Paste Any next to Parents. See also Add parents and children to Experimental Steps.
Now let’s see how the Parents and Children sections of an Experimental Step can be configured in the Object Types Definition Extension in the Settings.
Section Name. Enter an alternative name for the Parents or Children section. If empty the default is used (Parents/Children).
Disable the section for the Object type. No parents/children can be added to this Object type.
Disable addition of any object type. This removes the + button next to the section name, which enables to add as parent any Object type. In this way only Objects of types pre-defined in the form can be added.
To define which Object types should always be shown in the form of a this Object type, click the + button.
Select if this is a Parent or Child from the drop down.
Enter a Label, which is what is shown in the Object form.
Select the Object type from the drop down.
Specify the minimum and maximum number of parents needed as input for this Object type. This can be left empty if parents are not mandatory for this type. If a minimum is specified, this makes the addition of those parents mandatory. As many parents as specified in the minimum field will have to be added in order to be able to save the form.
Specify Annotations (e.g. Comments) for this parent Object type.
Click the + button on the section to add an annotation field.
Select the Annotation field from the list of available fields.
Specify if the Annotation is mandatory.
The figure below shows how the Annotation of type Comments looks like in the Experimental Step form.
Updated on November 30, 2022