Identify Any Other Miscellaneous Entities You Need

You must nominate an entity type category for any new miscellaneous entities you define. Your agency can use the Other Entities general category that contains all new entities. Alternatively, you can define a specific category for each new miscellaneous entity.

When you create a new miscellaneous entity, consider whether that entity should inherit the intrinsic hard-coded design fields of any other entity. If you don't specify any inheritance, the design of the screen for the new entity includes two free-text data entry fields (title and description) only.

If you do specify inheritance, the design of the screen for the new entity is the same as that of the parent entity.

For example, if you create the marine vessel and aircraft miscellaneous entities from the predefined Vehicle entity (using inheritance), the screens for the new entities include the same fields as those of the parent vehicle entity (description, registration, country, and state).

 

The following table lists the hard-coded fields for the pre-defined entities and the miscellaneous entity.

Entity type (attributes)

Default fields

Contact number

Number

Document

Description

Embedded Document

Event

Description

Finish Date

Finish Time

Start Date

Start Time

Image

Description

Embedded Document

Location

Building Name

City

Country

Latitude

Longitude

Number

Postcode

State

Street

Suburb

Unit Number

Media

Description

Media List screen

Miscellaneous

Title

Description

Offence

Description

Offence Count

Offence Act

Offence Code

Started Date

Started Time

Finished Date

Finished Time

Organisation

Name

Country

State

Person

Family name

Given name 1

Given name 2

Given name 3

Title

Gender

Date of Birth

Age (auto calculated)

Date of Death

Transaction

Description

Unknown Value

Value

When Date

When Time

Vehicle

Country

Description

Registration

State

 

The fields in the previous table are called hard attributes. You can't change these fields. Your agency can set up additional fields (attributes) for all entities.

Your agency is responsible for setting up the entities you'll use. You can set up new entities at any time.

The Inheritance column provides an indication of whether the miscellaneous entity type inherits the field design of a predefined entity type.