Understanding How to Configure Properties for a Viewpoint

The properties available for a viewpoint's nodes are those available on the data chain's node types. You can configure viewpoints to display properties in various ways. For example, you can specify a given property is editable in one viewpoint and read-only in another viewpoint.

The following table describes how data objects can configure properties.

Table 20-3 Data Objects and Properties

Data Object	Property Configurations
Node type	Defines the following for all viewpoints that include the node type in its data chain: The available properties. Whether the properties are required. A required property means that all nodes must have a value for the property. This is distinct from a mandatory property, which is a property that the node type must include in order to conform to the application's binding rules.
Viewpoint	Defines the following for a specific viewpoint: The properties displayed in the viewpoint. The name displayed for a property. In other words, you can specify a label for a property. Whether a property value can be edited or is read-only.

For more information, see Working with Properties.

Example 20-2 Configuring a Property

Suppose that you have a node type for a Universal application's Account dimension and that you created an optional property named Custom.Number of Decimal Places. In addition, suppose that you need to configure a viewpoint that handles the property in the following ways:

• The property is available and required for all account nodes.
• The property name displayed by the viewpoint is Decimal Precision.

The following example shows how the property should look in a viewpoint:

To accomplish this, you would configure the node type and viewpoint as described below:

1. In the node type's Properties tab, specify that the Custom.Number of Decimal Places property is required:
   
   
2. In the viewpoint's Properties tab, change the Label to Decimal Precision.