Viewing Object Details

In the search results table, click the Details link for an object to open the Details area immediately below the Registry Objects area.

This section has a row of buttons and a row of tabs:

• The buttons are Apply, Save, Cancel, Approve, Deprecate, Undeprecate, Delete, and Set or Change Status. The buttons represent actions that you can perform on the object.

• The tabs represent the object’s attributes. The tabs vary depending on the object type.Table 2–4 describes the tabs and the objects they apply to.

Table 2–4 Attribute Tabs in the Details Area

Tab Name	Applies To
Object-Type Detail	All objects (Object-Type is the object type name)
Slots	All objects
Classifications	All objects
External Identifiers	All objects
Associations	All objects
External Links	All objects
Audit Trail	All objects
Postal Addresses	Organization, User
Telephone Numbers	Organization, User
Email Addresses	Organization, User
Users	Organization
Organizations	Organization
Service Bindings	Service
Specification Links	ServiceBinding
Concepts	ClassificationScheme, ClassificationNode
Members	RegistryPackage
Affected Objects	AuditableEvent

Click a tab to find out if the object has any values for the attribute. If it does, click the Details link for the attribute value to open a browser window with the details for the attribute value.

The Associations tab produces a table with three links for each Association:

• Details

• Source Object (the object type is shown)

• Target Object (the object type is shown)

In the Source Object and Target Object columns, the type of the object whose associations you are viewing is shown in bold.

The Audit Trail tab does not produce a table with a Details link. Instead, this tab produces a table that contains the following information:

• The event type

• The date and time of the event

• The name of the User that caused the event

For most objects, the Details area fields are as follows:

• Unique Identifier. For every object, the Unique Identifier is an active link. Click this link to view the XML for the object in a browser window. All registry objects are stored in XML format.

• Logical Unique Identifier. The Logical Unique Identifier is usually the same as the Unique Identifier. If versioning is turned on, the Logical Unique Identifier remains the same for all versions of the object, while the Unique Identifier for the new version receives a suffix that indicates the version number.

• Name

• Description

• Status (usually Submitted, meaning that the object has been published to the Registry)

• Version

• Version Comment

For many objects, the fields are largely self-explanatory (the postal addresses for an Organization, for example). For some objects, the fields require some explanation. The following sections describe these fields.

• Viewing Association Details

• Viewing Classification Scheme Details

• Viewing Extrinsic Object Details

• Viewing External Link Details

Viewing Association Details

The Details area for an Association object contains the following additional fields:

• Source Object and Target Object. For the source and target objects of the association, the panel shows both the name and the object type. The Confirmed By Source Owner checkbox indicates whether or not the association was confirmed or approved by the source object owner. The Confirmed By Target Owner checkbox indicates whether or not the association was confirmed or approved by the target object owner. These checkboxes are always selected for intramural associations.

• Association Type. The combo box displays the selected type of the Association.

• Is Extramural. This checkbox is selected if at least one of the two associated objects is owned by a User other than the User who created the Association. Otherwise, the Association is defined as intramural.

Viewing Classification Scheme Details

The Details area for a ClassificationScheme object contains the following additional fields:

• External Classification Scheme checkbox. This checkbox is selected if the classification scheme is defined outside the Registry (that is, if it has no concepts). An internal classification scheme is a classification scheme whose concept hierarchy is defined within the Registry.

• The Value Type combo box, which contains one of the following selections:

  • Unique. This value indicates that each node of the taxonomy has a unique code assigned to it. This value is the default when you create a classification scheme in Service Registry.

  • Embedded Path. This value indicates that the unique code assigned to each node of the taxonomy also encodes its path.

  • Non-Unique. In some cases nodes are not unique, and it is necessary to use the full path (from the ClassificationScheme to the node of interest) to identify the node. For example, in a geography taxonomy, Moscow could be under both Russia and the USA, where five states have cities that are named Moscow.

Viewing Extrinsic Object Details

The Details area for an ExtrinsicObject object contains the following additional fields:

• Content Version and Content Version Comment. The Details area shows the version and optional comment for the repository item associated with the extrinsic object.

• MimeType. This field contains the MIME type of the extrinsic object.

• Is Opaque? checkbox. This checkbox is selected if the repository item content is not readable by the Registry (for example, if it is encrypted).

• Object Type. This field contains the subconcept within the ObjectType/ExtrinsicObject tree.

• View Content. Click the View Repository Item Content link to view the repository item in a browser window.

Viewing External Link Details

The Details area for an ExternalLink object contains the following additional fields:

• Object Type. This field contains either the ExternalLink object type or a subconcept within the ObjectType/ExtrinsicObject tree.

• Select Concept for Object Type button. Click this button to choose a subconcept within the ObjectType/ExtrinsicObject tree that represents the content of the external URI.

• A Display Content link under the External URI field. Click this link to view the contents of the URI in a browser window.