Application Metadata

• Application Metadata is a JSON configuration stored in the platform.

• Biz-App reads it when it starts.

• The metadata decides what users will see in the left menu and during file upload steps.

Why these matters

Because Biz-App is metadata-driven:

• you can adjust the menu without rebuilding the app

• you can rename sections into your business language

• you can introduce new objects or remove old ones from the menu

What Biz-App needs at minimum

Biz-App requires:

• Application name to be main_app

• navigationGroups

Without navigationGroups, Biz-App cannot build the side navigation.

What clients usually configure

In most real programs, two parts are actively maintained:

1) navigationGroups (the menu)

This controls:

• what the left menu looks like

• how sections are grouped

• which objects are reachable

2) FILES_TO_UPLOAD (upload prompts)

This controls what users see during the “Upload and process data” step of pipeline runs:

• the title of each upload card

• the short instruction text under it

Clients often use this to speak in human terms, for example:

• “Activity data (CSV)”

• “Emission factor mapping”

• “Supporting evidence documents”