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  • Manually Configuring Values
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Updating an Entity

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From the UI

Settings Page

You can manage an entity's content from its settings page.

The Settings Page consists of 4 tabs:

  • Properties: Here, you can view all available data associated with your entity, including metadata, properties, and relations. You can also manage the sources from which this data originates.

Manually Configuring Values

Configuring Automated Value Assignment

ou might want to configure certain fields within your entity to automatically receive and update data from external sources that integrate with Rely through its plugins.

Entities can have sources that automatically update it, these can be:

Automation Rules declare themselves as an entity's source when they perform updates to it.

From the Public API

Sources: This tab allows you to manage the sources from which data automatically populates this entity. .

JSON: In this tab, you can view and directly edit your

Audit Logs: This tab enables you to over time.

Only fields that have their source set to "Manual" can be manually edited, both through the UI and the public API. Fields with other sources are automatically updated by .

From the properties tab, hoover over a given metadata, property or relation field for the edition button to become visible. The edition flow varies according to the field's .

Alternatively you can also directly edit the .

Changing the entity directly can sometimes be useful for purposes.

You can manage the sources available to your entity in the sources tab in the , or by directly manipulating the .

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