Arango has the built-in ability to autogenerate a _key field on uploaded tables. This should be allowed by Multinet as well.
One simple way to handle this would be to add a bit of UI to the Upload Table dialog, a checkbox that is on by default for an option reading something like "Autogenerate key field if it is missing".
The idea here would be to allow someone to upload a node table without keys on it, immediately download a copy of it (which would include the autogenerated keys), then use that file to complete an edge table of some sort, allowing the edge table to be uploaded on the way to creating a graph. This is just one imagined workflow that would take advantage of this feature.
Arango has the built-in ability to autogenerate a
_keyfield on uploaded tables. This should be allowed by Multinet as well.One simple way to handle this would be to add a bit of UI to the Upload Table dialog, a checkbox that is on by default for an option reading something like "Autogenerate key field if it is missing".
The idea here would be to allow someone to upload a node table without keys on it, immediately download a copy of it (which would include the autogenerated keys), then use that file to complete an edge table of some sort, allowing the edge table to be uploaded on the way to creating a graph. This is just one imagined workflow that would take advantage of this feature.