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.