About standard properties
Overview
A standard property refers to the descriptive data that is associated with an artifact or sub-artifact. Standard properties are configured by instance administrators with the applicable privileges and apply to all projects within an instance.
Standard properties allow you to create a single property and apply it to all projects in the instance, instead of creating the property manually in each project. By creating the property once at the instance level, you can save time and feel confident that the property is consistent across all projects.
Example
Mohammed, a business analyst, has many projects in his Blueprint instance. He wants to add a property to all of his projects in order to estimate the effort of his requirements. Instead of creating the property manually in each project, he creates a standard property called Cost Estimation at the instance level. The standard property is automatically applied globally to all projects, saving him time and effort.
Standard properties can be created and edited by instance administrators with the applicable privileges. Any applied changes appear uniformly across projects.
Tip: Leveraging standard properties can also improve the licensed reporting feature in Blueprint Analytics. By establishing standard properties, data across projects can be consolidated easier, making filtering and modeling data more efficient.
System, standard and custom properties
Standard properties are different from default system properties that apply to all artifacts and sub-artifacts (such as Name and Artifact ID). Standard properties are also different from custom properties, which only apply to specified projects. Project Administrators cannot edit standard properties but they can assign standard properties to custom artifact types.
Tip: The option to replace a custom property with a standard property is available to project administrators with the applicable privileges. Replacing a custom property with the standard effectively applies your property to all projects in the instance.
Instance administrators with the applicable privileges can create and edit standard properties and apply them to one or more artifact types. Standard properties are defined and managed on the Standard Properties tab in the Instance Administration Console. The Standard Properties tab looks like this:
The left side of the page provides you with a table containing the following columns of information about each custom property:
- Name: Indicates the name of the standard property.
- Property Type: The standard property can be one of the following types: text, number, date, choice, or user.
After you select a standard property from the table, the standard property details are displayed on the right side of the page.
