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Defining the Asset Category Descriptive Flexfield

You can set up the Asset Category descriptive flexfield to store additional information based on the asset category. The Asset Category descriptive flexfield appears in both the Additions and Quick Additions forms.

Enter ATTRIBUTE_CATEGORY_CODE as the reference field to base the descriptive flexfield structure on the value of your Category Flexfield (key flexfield). See: Category Flexfield.

You define your context field values (structure names) to exactly match your concatenated Category Flexfield combinations. For example, if you have a Major Category value of BUILDING, and a Minor Category of OFFICE, your Category Flexfield combination is BUILDING.OFFICE, so you would define BUILDING.OFFICE as your context value (structure name). Similarly, you could define another context value as VEHICLE.DELIVERY. Note that the segment separator, spelling and case must exactly match your Category Flexfield combination.

You need not define a descriptive flexfield structure for each combination of your Category Flexfield; define structures only for those categories where you want to capture additional information (such as license number, insurance policy number, and so on).

Note that you may want to "share" segment names (not necessarily the same as your segment prompts) among different structures of context-sensitive segments if you plan to use flexfield views for reporting.

See:

Overview of Flexfield Views

Segment Naming Conventions

Descriptive Flexfield View Example

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