Categories

Categories are the primary Dabble entity for managing structured data. They are fairly analogous to traditional Relational Tables especially from Dabble's satellite interface (pages). Dabble's CORE interface exposes Categories as a true master-detail tree.

Geography

Demographic Data Fields

  • Name [Text]
  • Abbreviation [Text]
  • Population [Number] City Designation Entries Only
  • Flag [Web Link, Display as Image]

Demographic Management Fields

  • MS.SOURCEKEY [Text, Default: ("MSGEO-298332"), Autoincrement ("ON")]: Dabble-generated unique KEY
  • Designation [Choice {Kingdom, Nation, State, Province, County, City}]
  • Entry Status [Choice {Active, Obsolete, Alias}]
  • Primary City [Link to Entry] Points to replacement Entry for Alias status entries
  • Primary Nav [Link to Entry] Points to replacement Entry for Alias status entries
  • MS.CREATED [Date/Time, Default ("Now")]

Scheduled Import Management Fields

These fields flatten and integrate information scattered throughout the tree during hourly scheduled imports that update entries based on MS.SOURCEKEY.

  • MY Kingdom [Link to Entry]
  • MY Nation [Link to Entry]
  • MY State [Link to Entry]
  • MY County [Link to Entry]
  • MY Location [Location] Leaf Nodes Only

Tree Management Fields

Two trees are managed within the category. The interior container tree describes fine-grained municipality information (states belong to nations belong to kingdoms) while the 2nd tree describes how & where cities attach into the container tree.

  • Nav Parent
    Link to Entry
    Category: Geography
    Display: () Nav Parent (", ") Designation (": ") Name
  • City Parent
    Link to Entry
    Category: Geography
    Display: () Nav Parent (", ") Designation (": ") Name

Counties

A third tree involves a second category, County.

  • County Parent [Link to Entry, Category: Geography]

Requests

The requests category allows anyone to attach correction or addition requests anywhere in the Demographic Trees.

  • MS.SOURCEKEY [Text, Default ("MSCNT-100198"), Autoincrement ("ON")]
  • Container Node [Link to Entry, Category: Geography]
  • County Node [Link to Entry, Category: Counties]
  • City Node [Link to Entry, Category: Geography]
  • Status [Choice: Start, Approve, Reject, Finish]
  • Description [Text]
  • Creator [Email Address]
  • Resolution [Text]
  • MS.CREATED [Date/Time, Default ("Now")]

Prefixes

The prefixes category allows distributed consumers of IDT data to make local additions that can be later merged back into IDT for publication.

The distributed consumer registers a prefix like "PBR" within IDT and then modifies the configuration of their local MS.SOURCEKEY to be...

  • Geography: MS.SOURCEKEY [Text, Default ("PBRGEO-100000"), Autoincrement ("ON")]
  • County: MS.SOURCEKEY [Text, Default ("PBRCNT-100000"), Autoincrement ("ON")]

This allows them to work locally and be able to publish into IDT their additions at a later time.

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