Attributes

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Key Concepts

Within Coreo attributes essentially define the information an item contains.

Examples of Attributes

If we take the example of a collection created in a spreadsheet, the column headings are your attributes and the rows are the items.

Every item has two mandatory attributes:

  • A Key – the item’s unique identifier (unique within that collection, not Coreo as a whole). The key is not shown publicly within your project.
  • A Value – this is the item’s label or name and is shown publicly within your project.

Key and Value can be set to be the same – for example:

  • Key = “yes”
  • Value = “Yes”

Or, they can be different – for example:

  • Key = “GSW”
  • Value = “Great Spotted Woodpecker”

You might want to embellish your items by adding more attributes to them – for example:

  • Key = “GSW”
  • Value = “Great Spotted Woodpecker”
  • Scientific name = “Dendrocopus major“
  • Status = “Year round resident”
  • Call = “Repeated ‘chic, chic'”

Working with Attributes

How you work with attributes depends ultimately on how you build collections in Coreo, i.e. whether you build the collection directly in Coreo or you import it.

  • If you are importing a collection via a .csv file, or other tabulated file format, then the column headings relate directly to attributes and these will be imported and created automatically.

If you are adding attributes directly in Coreo take the following steps:

  • Click the ‘+Add’ button in the attributes box
  • Select whether the value of your attribute is alphabetic or numeric using the toggle.

You should then decide whether you want your attribute to be visible in the app. If you have the toggle on your attribute will be visible in tooltips associated with your item for example. Hidden attributes can be used for different purposes such as ordering your collection items.

  • Next give your attribute a name by typing in the text box provided.
  • Click add attribute to finish.

Your new attribute will now be available to fill in when you edit an item, by clicking the blue ‘pencil’ icon to the right of your collection item and then typing in the relevant text box.

You can find out more about building collections here.

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