Create Asset Dialog

This dialog is opened whenever you try to create a new asset, for example from the New button on the Instances Panel or the Search Panel. It asks you to enter essential information about the new asset including labels but also any mandatory properties.

Fields

• Label will become the label (rdfs:label) of the new asset.

• ID will be used as identifier (URI) of the asset.

• Type is visible when the ontology declares subclasses of the context class, allowing you to select the specific class you want to instantiate.

There will be additional fields for each property that is declared to have a minimum count (sh:minCount) of 1.

Hint

While the additional fields are marked mandatory, and a constraint violation will be shown if you leave them blank, you can still elect to proceed and add the missing values later. Sometimes this is difficult or impossible to enter at creation time. If you think a property should not be required to be entered on creation, talk to the ontology designer whether the minCount should be dropped.

See Also

• Create Node Shape Dialog

• Instances Panel

• Modify > Create instance

• Search Panel

Further Reading on TopBraid

• Introduction to EDG