Typically when you want to do this, you are working on info-boxes. The assumption should be that those info boxes are the same for a certain category of subjects (eg all the emirs of Cordoba).

An Emir of Cordoba belongs to "Noble family" "Emirate of Cordoba" and many of the associated fields could be inhereted from "Noble family". When you set something up along these lines, there is hardly a need to add attributes after an initial setup.
Thanks,
      GerardM


On 22 May 2013 15:10, Thomas Douillard <thomas.douillard@gmail.com> wrote:
A "search or create" workflow should be enforced, it may be to easy for newbies or lazy users to create new items. Maybe a step with a sort of popup which informs that this item might already be in the database, maybe help to search within, then a "really create the item" - maybe by reusing the data he entered to search if the user did not find it.
For advanced users it might be deactivable in the user preferences ?


2013/5/22 Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de>
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 5:07 PM, David Cuenca <dacuetu@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> Now we have properties that require a datatype item. In terms of interface
> interaction I miss the option to create an item from that field, a "create
> item" button that would add the missing entry, and let adding properties to
> it. It is similar to the case of adding qualifiers to an item.
>
> How it is now:
> - A property is added to an item
> - Type to see if the item exists
> - If not, click on create new item (link on the left bar)
> - (1st screen) enter label and description
> - (2nd screen) enter label and description
> - copy and paste item number into the property from the item that required
> it
>
> A quicker method could be:
> - A property is added to an item
> - Type to see if the item exists
> - Show a "create item" message at the bottom of the suggestion list
> - The item is created with the specified label
> - Further properties can be added to the newly created item in the same way
> as statements
>
> What is your opinion on this method?

I fear that this would lead to quite some unneeded duplicate items.
What do others think?


Cheers
Lydia

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