Use the object status if:

• You need to display the semantic status of an object: negative (property: error), critical (property: warning), positive (property: success), or neutral (property: none).
• You need to show that the current object instance is locked by another user.

Use the object number if:

• You want to display the key attribute of an object. In this case, keep the emphasized default setting (property: emphasized).
• You need to display one or more numeric attributes of an object that, for example, you want to compare (property: emphasized set to “false”).

Use the object identifier if:

• You want to indicate the key identifier of the object.

Do not use the object status or object number if:

• You want to display system messages.

The object status consists of the following:

• A semantically-colored text (property: text)
• An optional icon (property: icon)
• A title that serves as a label (property: title)

It is mainly used with semantically-colored text only.

The object identifier has the following properties:

• A title text (property: title)

• An optional additional descriptive text (property: text)

• The title can be set to active. In this case, it looks like a link and can fire an event (property: titleActive).

• Both texts wrap if the space available is insufficient to fit each of them on one line.

The object number consists of the following:

• A semantically-colored text (property: number), which can be set to non-emphasized when used in the content area (property: emphasized)
• An optional unit (property: unit)

• Use semantic text only, and avoid using it with an icon.
• Use the following semantics to indicate the status: negative (property: error), critical (property: warning), positive (property: success), and neutral (property: none).

• Only use icons if they are unambiguous and easily understood (such as a padlock for locked items). If you feel your icon would need a descriptive text to be understood, use text only.
• For locked items, you may also add information about who is currently locking the item.

• Do not use the title of the object status outside the object header. Even though the title and the status text wrap, keep them both as short as possible.

• When used in a table, the object status should be center-aligned.

• The object identifier should be easily readable (preferably the display text and not the ID). If the ID is necessary to distinguish between items that use the same title, it should appear in brackets, such as Product ABC (1234567). Whether you include the ID in the text property can also depend on how long you expect the text to be.
• The object identifier can also be shown as a link. In this case, the event opens the quick view of the object.

Object Number

• Use the following semantics to indicate the status: negative (property: error), critical (property: warning), positive (property: success), and neutral (property: none).

• If the object number is the key attribute of the object inside the content area, the number should be emphasized when it is used as a line item status in a table.

• The object number can also be used to visualize other semantic numeric attributes. In this case, they are not emphasized unless they are the key attribute, such as a sum.