Meanings

Why and how to learn the meaning of inputfields?

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Make sure you know what the fields in a document type mean. Often, this will be clear. Everyone knows what a title or a description is supposed to be. There is also no question as to what 'indoors' means. But people can answer the question whether a happening is recurring differently. A person may consider a happening recurring if it is intended to occur again in the future. An other person may consider the same happening as not recurring, because it has not occured before.

The document types used in your organization, were created by an information architect with the intent that every author would fill in information with the same meaning of the field in mind.

If authors use different meanings of the same field, searches and statistics on that field will not be particularly useful.

So, as an author, make sure that you know the meanings intended. If the information architect chose a name that is unclear, ask for an explanation.

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