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I've created a type: http://www.freebase.com/type/view/user/mlevison/agile_software_development/functional_test_tools and wish to change the properties that visitors will see in the default case (i.e no image, etc). How can I achieve that?
The whole goal of this is to build a repository of "Functional test tools" that users can quickly scan to figure out which tool they need.
As it stands the default view is of no interest.
Confused in Ottawa
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Replied to related post in the Computers domain.
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You can't actually save a view, per se -- you can only save a filter. E.g., if you filtered the view of your type for Domain Specific Language = "yes", you could save that. However, there is currently a work-around (although I doubt this was intentional and I can't promise that it will be around forever) -- if you click the "filter results" button, a field labeled "save view as" will appear; you can enter a name and save the view without actually running a filter. The saved view will then appear on your homepage (I think), and will have a stable URL.
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For what it's worth, I believe this is the intended functionality, and that you *should* be able to save a view even if you haven't filtered. They just hid the "save as" thing back there because of screen real estate concerns.
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I'm trying to document the wide array of Agile Functional test tools, in a searchable form.
My first attempt at this: http://functionaltestingtools.pbwiki.com/FrontPage is bit of mess.
Do I add the tools as individual topics and just tag them with types?
If someone could just point me to a concrete example: i.e. Blackberry is a topic. and its types are XXX.
If I've got this figured out correctly I need to add a topic per tool and them create a view. Which leads to the problem how do I create topics and views?
Looking on this page "Computer Domain" I can't see any add link for either topic or view.
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You seem to have mistaken Freebase for a relational database. (-:
I note that your new type is full of text-valued properties that really should expect other types. Take a look at the Software type, for instance; the “Compatible Operating Systems” property expects a Software Compatibility type that links which links the OS and the versions in a compound value type (CVT).
You would probably benefit from checking out the Creating Types and Properties help pages, particularly the Data Modeling Guide. I think this will help answer questions about the views, as well.
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Honestly this turns out to be way more complicated than I had hoped. At this stage I will just create a google spreadsheet.
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Sorry I tried to say thanks for taking the time to help - but that didn't get added.
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No problem, Mark. Freebase is quite powerful, but modeling new kinds of information is correspondingly difficult. We’ve tried to make the UI easy to use, and are still working on that, but there is an irreducible complexity, if you will, to the actual modeling process. Testing software seems like an interesting and useful domain to model, so please do let us know if we can help, if and when you do come back, maybe with a posse at your back. (-:
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