A short followup on my previous post about delegated properties… In that post I described how to delegate a property when creating a new type from the filter page. This was great when creating a new type but didn’t work for creating delegated properties on existing types. With the latest release you can now delegate a property from within schema editor.
The steps to do this are pretty straightforward.
- Open a schema that you have permissions to edit
- Click ‘add new property’
- Give it a title and click ‘Or: use a property from another type” at the bottom of the edit window
- Enter the name of the property you want to delegate and click ’select’
- If you’re happy with your selection and you’re done editing the property, you can click ’save’
As a recap, delegated properties have the following characteristics.
- They share the data with the source property (edits to property values in either property always affects the other property)
- The expected type of the delegated property is the same as the source property and can’t be changed in schema editor
- Once data exists for a delegated property, you can’t change source property it points at. In this case you’ll need to delete or hide the property and create a new one.
