Database Reference
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Figure 15-6. Graphic data summary
Tagging
A powerful organizational attribute called tags is associated with all entities. A tag is a
free-form text input that enables you to group records by a keyword. This is handy be-
cause some record groupings don't fit into the neat and tidy relational data model. For
example, you might want to be able to find all features that contain a shuttle item
across all applications. By adding the tag “shuttle” to these features, you can use the in-
teractive report search field to find all records that contain the tag of “shuttle.” All
dashboard pages contain a region that displays the tag strings defined in their respect-
ive entity. This lets you quickly find and correct typos so the free-form tags can be kept
accurate.
GETTING PAST THE INITIAL DISCOMFORT
At first, Team Development's organization, layout, and navigation might ap-
pear a bit strange and non-intuitive. We certainly struggled with it at first.
Our initial perception was probably due to our previous experience with
project-management tools that use pages with a work breakdown structure on
the left and a Gantt chart on the right.
Our initial discomfort with Team Development was similar to our first exper-
iences with APEX. Like many experienced developers, we came from devel-
opment environments in which screen widgets are listed on the left and
dragged onto a screen, and in which the X-Y coordinates are set together
with a widget's height and width, all at pixel-level precision.
 
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