Create templates

Templates allow you to attribute structured, consistent metadata to your entities. Within each Template, you can assign properties:

• text
• numeric
• select (needs thesauri)
• multi-select (needs thesauri)
• date, date range, multi date, multi date range
• rich text
• geolocation
• external link
• media (for video and audio embedding or self-hosting)
• image
• relationship, which allows you to use items from another template as thesauri items

For example, you may want to create a template called "Court" which will contain properties such as name, judges, location, etc. You create one template for each entity that has a distinct set of properties.

Under Templates, you can view, edit, and delete existing templates.

Follow these steps:

1. Click on the gear icon in the top right corner of the site.

2. Go to Templates.
3. Click on Add template.
4. You will see two default properties: Title, and Date added.
5. Add properties by dragging them into the designated box.
6. Edit the Name of the property that you are adding.
7. Click Save.

Note:

1. In case the instance should be in Arabic, the template and properties should be created in latin characters then translated into Arabic, otherwise it is going to trigger a bug. Developers are working to fix it.

2. When you add a select or multi-select property to a type, you will see a field titled Thesauri in which you can select a Thesaurus or a Template that you have already created. See the section on create thesauri for more information on how to create these thesauri.