🚨 Default behavior change coming soon! 🚨

data.world offers the ability to define custom metadata fields on resources like datasets, projects, glossary terms, dashboards, and metadata tables. Custom metadata field types include free text fields, drop-down fields, and multi-select hierarchical fields.

To provide a focused user experience while editing custom metadata, each field had a configuration option to either show the field during the editing process, or else put the field behind a drop-down, requiring a user to find the field in the drop-down before setting its value. The default behavior was to hide the field in the "Add new field" drop-down (pictured below), unless it was flagged as a primary field.

While we typically avoid changing the default behavior of features with widespread adoption, conversations with customers has led us to flipping the default — all fields will show up during the editing experience, unless they are now flagged a secondary field. Only if they are considered a secondary field will they ever be behind the "Add new field" drop down.

The benefit of this change is that users will more easily see all the fields available to edit or provide crowdsourced suggestions for, including fields that are empty and don't have a value set yet.

The edit experience, along with the "Add new field" drop down, in action:

Bottom line - this will result in more fields showing up by default when you click Edit (they won't be hidden under the 'Add new field' drop-down) - unless you mark them as secondary in your metadata configuration (which will hide them under the drop-down).

If you have any concerns or questions on how to implement the secondary setting, including if you'd like to implement it proactively prior to the feature being rolled out, please reach out to your customer success representative or support@data.world and we'd be happy to assist!