When to use Add versus Find in the Data Modeler inside of TRIRIGA

In TRIRIGA's Data Modeler, there are 2 methods to add a field to your business object: Add and Find. How do I know when to use them and what really is the difference?

Add is when you are creating a new field that has never existed before. It should only be used for creating brand new fields that do not exist. This not only adds the field to TRIRIGA but it will add t to the database. For example, you want to add the field cstNewField1TX to the business object triContract and it does not exist on any other business object. So you would use Add to add the field.

Find is used when you want to add a field whose name already exists. For example you want to add cstNewField1TX to the business object cstMyObject. We know from above that cstNewField1TX was already added (and we will assume published). You would use Find to search for the field and it would add it to your business object, with all the same information. Then, it can be modified for this particular business object, except for the field name and data type.

If you are looking for a specific type of data - say a Start Date, you would use the Find action to look to see if a Start Date exists and re-use on your business object.

Why does this matter? Because, if you added cstNewField1TX to your business object, you could get errors because that field name already exists on a different object. It could cause confusion seeing the same name more than once in the database. Even if you remove the field, you are removing the field from TRIRIGA, not necessarily from the platform.