Edit Class

Use this page to view or change the details of a class in a classification system, or to add a new class.

To view the Edit Class page, perform the following actions:
  1. Open the classification systems details page.
  2. Select the Classes tab.
  3. Click the name of the class to view or change the details of that class, or click Add Root Class or Add Child to add a new class.
Class ID
Specifies the class ID for the class.

A class ID can consist of any characters from the UTF-8 character set, but is limited to no more than 1020 bytes of storage. This means that if you use characters that require more than 1 byte of storage to represent them, this reduces the total number of characters that can be specified for the class ID. The class ID must not include the ampersand (&) character.

Data type Editable
String True
Name
Specifies the name for the class, which is used for display purposes in the web UI.

A name can consist of any characters from the UTF-8 character set, but is limited to no more than 1020 bytes of storage. This means that if you use characters that require more than 1 byte of storage to represent them, this reduces the total number of characters that can be specified for the name.

Data type Editable
String True
You can supply language variants for the name to provide translations of the name into other languages.

To work with the language variants for the name, click Name Language Variants. A list of the existing language variants, if any, is displayed. There is one language variant listed for each language that has been defined for the classification system. The language identifier fields are already populated and you cannot change them. You can add a translation for any of the languages listed, or change an existing translation.

Comment
Specifies a comment for the class. You can use this field to add descriptive information.

The comment can consist of any characters from the UTF-8 character set, but is limited to no more than 1020 bytes of storage. This means that if you use characters that require more than 1 byte of storage to represent them, this reduces the total number of characters that can be specified for the comment.

Data type Editable
String True
You can supply language variants for the comment to provide translations of the comment into other languages.

To work with the language variants for the comment, click Comment Language Variants. A list of the existing language variants, if any, is displayed. There is one language variant listed for each language that has been defined for the classification system. The language identifier fields are already populated and you cannot change them. You can add a translation for any of the languages listed, or change an existing translation.

This page provides the following buttons:
Button Resulting action
OK Saves any changes you have made to the class details and closes the page.
Cancel Closes the class details page without saving your changes.