To Add an Object to the EDM

1. In the Projects window, expand the Configuration node in the project you want to modify, and then double-click the Enterprise Data Manager file.

   The file opens in the NetBeans XML editor.

2. In the nodes list of the file, create a new node-object element, substituting the object name for object, as shown below.

   <node-Phone> </node-Phone>

3. For any child objects, define the following attributes.

   • display-order – The order in which the child object types are displayed in the tree view pane on the EDM pages.

   • merge-must-delete – An indicator of whether EDM users must specify which the instances of the child object type to retain during a system record merge. Specify false to allow EDM users to select the child objects to retain or to accept the default objects (the default objects are those in the destination system). Specify true to force the user to select the child objects to retain. This allows you to hide certain child object types on the EDM while forcing the user to specify which visible child objects to retain.

     For example:

     <node-Phone display-order="3" merge-must-delete="false"> </node-Phone>

4. Define fields for the new object, as described in Adding Fields to the EDM.

5. Define the relationship of the object, as described in Defining EDM Object Relationships (Repository).

6. Save and close the file.