Many pages in other Smart Materials modules and Smart Reference Data allow user-defined input fields. The Properties page lets you to define properties, property groups, and property sets. Property group is a collection of properties.
To view a list of property groups or properties, select Property Group or Property respectively from the Display Options list.
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From the Home page, select Administration > Global Setup > Tables and Properties > Properties.
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To define property groups, select Property Groups from the Display Options list.
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Click Add Row.
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Type the sequence number in the Sequence cell.
Sequence controls the display order of the property group.
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Type the property group name and description in the Property Group, Description cells and click Save.
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To add properties to a Property Group, click Add Row in the Properties block.
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Type a property name in the Property cell.
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Select a data type from the Data Type list.
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Type the width and precision for the property in the Width and Precision cells respectively.
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Select Yes from Required to specify that the property is required.
If the project default ZX_HL_RQAT is set to Y, the required properties are highlighted in the core workflow pages.
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Select a unit of measure from the Unit of Measure list.
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Select a conversion formula/table from the metric<->english list for conversion to other units of measure.
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Select Yes from NLS Values list to allow language dependent values.
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Select Yes from Query list if the property value must be case sensitive.
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Select a restriction from the Restrict list to restrict the property values to either upper case or lower case.
LOWER - Upper case text is converted to lower case.
NONE - No change to the text.
UPPER - Lower case text is converted to upper case.
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Type the minimum and maximum property values in the Low and High cells respectively.
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Type the maximum property value in the High cell.
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Type the label that would be displayed and the hint text in the Label Text and Hint Text respectively.
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Select an SQL statement from the Tables list.
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Select Yes or No from the Update CCs list.
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Select Yes from Allow Update to enable the BOM values for this property to be updated even if the BOM is locked/released.
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Select Yes from TE Relevant if this property is required for technical evaluation by Procurement.
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Select Yes from Site Inspection Required if this property is assigned to idents of item type Tag Attribute Based (TAB) and a site inspection is required for this ident property.
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Select Yes from Inherit if the value of this property is to be copied from the part to the newly created commodity codes by default.
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Select Yes from Ident NLS if the corresponding property must be included in Ident NLS.
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Select Yes from Multi Values if multiple values are allowed for this property.
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Select an value from Select List Type:
Close - specifies that you can select only from the valid values available.
Open - specifies that you can add new values for the property.
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Select Yes from Intervals if intervals are allowed for the property values.
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Select Yes from Allow Negative if negative values are allowed for the property.
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Define a format template for the entry and display of the property values in Display Format cell.