Metamation Nodal

Within Metemation, all Documents and Data are stored in a hierarchical structure tree. This tree can be defined to represent a company structure, a project structure, or any combination where information needs to be organised.

Within this defined tree, each storage area is generally referred to as a node. However, in your configuration, these may appear on screen referred to as folders, directories, projects or other such terminology.

The nodes are virtual stores for data, documents and actions. Depending on the level of the node, these can be viewed as virtual rooms, cabinets, draws, folders and sections. What ever happens to a storage node, also effects alerts, data and documents (such as moving nodes in the tree).

When documents are added to a storage node, the documents exist in the specific node. However, as with a standard Windows directory structure, subject to security, where you have access to a node, you can also see documents in the child nodes.

However, nodes can have multiple children, multiple parents (so that documents can be seen from multiple locations) and can have siblings (where nodes share information, data and documents).

In addition to the control of documents, data also flows around the nodal structure. Where data is held in nodes and metrics are recorded within the data, data flow will up, down and around the nodal structure. As an example, where a metric such as risks and issues are recorded and metrics are used to record open and closed risks, the flow of the metrics can be defined to flow around the nodal structure to show the metrics based on the nodal level you are viewing. As an example:

Nodes are defined either from the properties window of existing nodes (from the My Nodes panel of the home page), or from the new button against the My Nodes in the same home page.