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Input Columns

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Each input column, sometimes called a key column, in a Configuration table corresponds to a Feature table. The cells in input columns must contain the code values of items in the corresponding Feature table. Each row in a Configuration table represents a configuration, either valid or invalid, of the Feature code values listed in its input column cells.

When you use a Feature table name as an input column name in a Configuration table, in the Table Editor view you will fill in the code values of the rows in the corresponding Feature table.

For example, if one Feature table in a pageset defines the exterior colors of a car, and another Feature table defines the interior colors, in the Configuration Table Editor view you would enter the exterior and interior color codes from the Feature tables in the input columns for EXT_COLOR and INT_COLOR. You would specify which exterior colors are available with each interior color by matching each exterior color value with each interior color value, row by row. The following example determines which models are available with which exterior and interior colors. This example uses range functions to simplify the data entry process. See Range Functions for more information.

In Figure 16, the highlighted row shows that the Model GXE is available with a red exterior and interior.

Figure 16. Configuration Editor Displaying Input Columns

The valid configurations (the combinations of Feature code values that represent available products) appear in the Configuration table list as DATA Row Types. The invalid configurations, the unavailable feature combinations, appear in the Configuration table list as EXCEPTION Row Types.

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