Build your Property library

A Property in VoiceQC is a structured tag: a Name / Value pair you attach to a Session item. The first time you create one you start your Property library — the Name/Value choices everyone on your account picks from when tagging any future Session.

Every Property you add joins the library. The dropdowns in the Property editor are populated from it. This page covers the two ways to extend the library.

How Names and Values fit together

The library is a list of Names. Each Name has a set of Values you can pick from when tagging:

Name: Status
├── Value: Approved
├── Value: Needs retake
└── Value: Rejected

Name: Take
├── Value: Take 1
├── Value: Take 2
└── Value: Take 3

Name: Speaker
├── Value: Hero
└── Value: Villain

When you tag a Session item you pick one Name and one Value under it. Once Status / Approved is in the library, it’s available on every Session in your account.

Add a brand-new Name and Value

Use this the first time you tag anything, or any time you need a Name the library doesn’t have yet.

1. On a Session item row, click + Property in the Actions column.

2. The Property editor opens. Since the library doesn’t have what you want, the Name and Value fields are empty text inputs.

3. Type the new Name (for example, Status).

4. Type the new Value (for example, Approved).

5. Click Create. The library is updated and the editor switches to dropdown mode with your new Name and Value pre-selected.

6. Click Save to assign the Property to this Session item.

The new Name / Value are now available in the dropdowns next time you open the Property editor anywhere in your account.

Add a new Value to an existing Name

Use this when the Name is already in the library but you need a Value it doesn’t have yet (for example, you have Status / Approved and Status / Rejected but want to add Status / Needs retake).

1. Click + Property on a Session item row.

2. In the Name dropdown, pick the existing Name.

3. Open the Value dropdown and choose Add new Value.

4. Type the new Value and click Save. The new Value joins the library and is assigned to this item.

Tips for a healthy Property library

• Treat Names as the more stable level. Adding a Name is fine, but renaming or removing one ripples through every item ever tagged. Settle on a small set of Names early (Status, Take, Speaker, Quality) and add to it sparingly.
• Keep Values per Name small and finite. Status with three or four Values is healthy. Status with a hundred Values means you probably wanted a comment field, not a Property.
• One Property per axis. If you find yourself wanting to add two different Statuses to one item, that’s a sign the Name should be split (for example, split Take into Take number and Take quality).
• Reuse before extending. Before adding a new Name, check the existing dropdown — your teammate may already have added what you’re about to.

For the thinking behind this shape, see Why Name / Value? The Property model design. For the data-model reference, see Property model.

See also

• Apply Properties to many items at once
• Color-code a Property
• Glossary: Property, Property library