Attribute Types
The Spacialist provides a big variety of different attribute types that can be used inside your Data Model. Named versions of those Attribute Types are used to populate the Entity Types.
In the next section we'll introduce all available attribute types, what they are used for and how the import data has to be formatted.
Boolean
Used for single checkbox to represent the binary values true
and false
.
Import Format
When importing only truthy values will be considered. When cells are empty those are considered as false
.
The values that are considered true are:
x
t
ortrue
w
orwahr
- numeric values > 0
Date
Represents a single date attribute, that is rendered with a default calender input field in the application.
Import Format
YYYY-MM-DD
e.g. 2024-10-30
It only accepts dates in the format
Date Range
Represents a date range between two dates.
Import Format
YYYY-MM-DD;YYYY-MM-DD
e.g. 2024-10-25;2024-10-30
The range must have a START
and END
date with the format YYY-MM-DD
separated by a semicolon. The start date must be earlier than the end date: START;END
Dimension
This attribute represents the extends of a three-dimensional object, with width, height, depth and an arbitraray unit (Note: that this is not powered by the SI-Unit system).
Import Format
W;H;D;UNIT
e.g 2.5;51.2;210.3;cm
The values W
,H
and D
must be numeric values. And the UNIT
value may be any string. Those values need to be separated by a semicolon ;
.
Double (Floating Point Number)
Represents a floating point number.
Import Format
N
Must be any valid floating point number representation using a .
as a decimal separator. 234
, -18
, 2.3
, 1.2e3
or 7E-10
.
Dropdown Multiple
A dropdown that allows selelcting from a list of concepts from the thesaurus.
Import Format
CONCEPT_1;CONCEPT_2;CONCEPT_3;[...]
e.g. Red;Green;Blue
A list of concepts that is separated with a semicolon ;
. For more infos see Dropdown Single
Dropdown Single
A dropdown that is populated by thesaurus concepts and allows the selection of exactly one item.
Import Format
CONCEPT_NAME
e.g. Red
The concept name must match excactly the concept that you want to import. The concept can be in any language.
Entity
A dropdown for selecting a single entity. Can be limited to a specific entity type.
Import Format
ENTITY_NAME
The entity name must match the entity (case-sensitive).
Entity Multiple
A dropdown for selecting multiple entites. Can be limited to a specific type.
Import Format
ENTITY_1;ENTITY_2
The entities to import. Must match the entity name (case-sensitive).
Epoch
Has two parts. A time span field and a thesaurus dropdown field to specify the epoch.
Import Format
START;END;EPOCH_CONCEPT
e.g. -100;30;antiquity
A start year and a end year in the gregorian calendar as integer values. Optional can be an epoch thesaurus concept. If the year is a negative number, it refers to the time before christ.
Geography (WKT)
Adds a geographical attribute to the entity. Currently they cannot be linked on the main map. Each entity has a single field for geo referencing internally.
Import Format
WKT_STRING
e.g. POINT(1 1)
Any valid WKT string, a good overview of these strings can be found on Wikipedia.