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Create configuration objects

Learn how to create configuration objects in the integrated development experience by adding them manually or through natural language prompts with AI-assisted authoring.

The integrated development experience adds objects to the local configuration file in a workspace that is connected to a Reltio tenant and in a workspace that you opened from a Git repository. In a workspace connected to a Reltio tenant, apply the changes to the Reltio tenant. If the Reltio tenant is connected to Git, also commit and push the changes in the Source Control view. In a workspace that you opened from a Git repository, save the file, and then commit and push the changes in the Source Control view.

The integrated development experience supports two ways to create configuration objects such as entity types, relation types, and others:

  • Context menu: Add an object, and then complete its definition in the configuration file
  • AI-assisted authoring: Describe the object in a natural language prompt to the AI agent in your editor, and the AI agent generates the object for you

AI-assisted authoring also creates supporting resources, such as the relation type required for a reference attribute.

To add an object through the context menu
  1. Right-click your connected tenant or cloned Git repository in the RELTIO IDE view, depending on your configuration source, and then select the object you want to create, such as:
    • Add a new Entity Type
    • Add a new Relation Type
    • Add a new Grouping Type
    • Add a new Graph Type
    • Add a new Source
    • Add a new Hierarchy Type
  2. Locate the new object in the configuration file. The integrated development experience adds the object with default values.
    The following image shows a new entity type added to the configuration with default values.
    Figure 1. Add a new Entity Type through the context menu
  3. Edit the object in the editor to complete its definition.
    The integrated development experience validates your changes and highlights errors in the editor, so that you can fix them before you apply the configuration to a Reltio tenant or commit the changes to Git.
To create an object with AI-assisted authoring
  1. Open the AI agent in your editor: Cursor or VS Code.
  2. Describe the object you want to create. For example, Create an Employee entity type with the relevant attributes and a reference attribute to Organization.
  3. Review the configuration that the integrated development experience generates. In this example, the integrated development experience creates the Employee entity type, adds relevant attributes, adds the reference attribute to the Organization entity type, and creates the required relation type that connects Employee to Organization.
    When a reference attribute requires a relation type, the integrated development experience creates the relation type automatically, so you do not have to create it as a separate step.
    Figure 2. Proposed changes in business configuration
  4. Review and manually edit the generated object to complete any remaining details, and then select Yes to apply the generated changes to the local configuration file.
    Selecting Yes applies the generated changes only to the local configuration file. In a Reltio tenant-connected workspace, use Apply Configuration to Tenant to send the changes to the Reltio tenant. In a workspace that you opened from a Git repository, save the file and use Source Control to commit and push the changes.

Result

Your new configuration objects appear in the RELTIO IDE view under their object type, and their definitions are added to the local configuration file.

If you are connected to a Reltio tenant, you are ready to review and apply the changes to the Reltio tenant. If you work from a Git repository, review, commit, and push the changes through Source Control.

Validation

To confirm that the objects were created:

  1. Expand your tenant or configuration in the RELTIO IDE view and confirm that the new objects appear under their object type.
  2. Confirm that the configuration shows no validation errors for the new objects.
  3. For a reference attribute created with AI-assisted authoring, confirm that the supporting relation type appears under Relation Types.