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Docs: Notify that an entry point is required for creating a data plug…
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AhmedBasem20 committed Mar 3, 2023
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.. note::

You must register a new data entry point. See `aiida.data <https://aiida.readthedocs.io/projects/aiida-core/en/latest/topics/plugins.html#aiida-data>`
To be able to use the new ``Data`` plugin, it must be registered using an entry point.
See :ref:`What is an entry point?<topics:plugins:entrypoints>` for details.

At this point, our new data type does nothing special.
Typically, one creates a new data type to represent a specific type of data.
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