Deleting Objects From the MIDM (Configuring Sun Master Indexes)

Configuring Sun Master Indexes

Deleting Objects From the MIDM

Once an object is defined in midm.xml, you can remove the object. If the object remains defined in object.xml, then the object is still a part of the enterprise record, but does not appear on the MIDM. Before removing an object from the midm.xml, make sure none of its fields are required in order to create a new record. If you delete an object using the Configuration Editor, the object is automatically deleted from midm.xml.

To Delete an Object

In the Projects window, expand the Configuration node in the project you want to modify, and then double-click midm.xml.

The file opens in the NetBeans XML editor.

Scroll to the node element naming the object to delete.

Delete all text between and including the node element for that object.

Using the sample below, to delete the Phone object, delete all the text in the sample.

<node>
   <name>Phone</name>
   <display-order>3</display-order>
   <field>
      <name>PhoneType</name>
      <display-name>Phone Type</display-name>
      <display-order>1</display-order>
      <max-length>8</max-length>
      <gui-type>MenuList</gui-type>
      <value-list>PHONTYPE</value-list>
      <value-type>string</value-type>
      <key-type>true</key-type>
   </field>
   <field>
      <name>Phone</name>
      <display-name>PhoneNumber</display-name>
      <display-order>2</display-order>
      <max-length>20</max-length>
      <gui-type>TextBox</gui-type>
      <value-type>string</value-type>
      <input-mask>(DDD)DDD-DDDD</input-mask>
      <value-mask>xDDDxDDDxDDDD</value-mask>
   </field>
</node>

If necessary, renumber the order of the remaining objects so they are sequential.

Remove the object from the relationship definition, as described in Defining Relationships Between Master Index Objects.

Save and close the file.