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Disabling Assignment Attributes

In some cases, you may want to eliminate assignment criteria that appear in the Assignment Criteria view. To do so, you need to remove the unwanted criteria from the Assignment Criteria view. if you want to prevent the criteria from being used in any rule, you must use Siebel Tools to also disable the corresponding assignment attribute, assignment attribute column, assignment criteria, and assignment criteria attribute object definitions.

Use the following procedure to disable an assignment attribute and avoid further use.

To disable an assignment attribute

1. In the UI, delete criteria you want removed from any assignment rules.

   For a procedure, see Removing Assignment Criteria from Assignment Rules.

2. Start Siebel Tools.
3. Disable the assignment attribute definition.
   1. In the Object Explorer, select the Assignment Attribute object.
   2. Lock the project for the object by choosing Tools > Lock Project (or Alt+L).

      The pencil icon appears in the W field to indicate the project for the object is locked.

   3. In the Assignment Attributes window, select the assignment attribute you want to disable.
   4. Check the Inactive field.
4. Disable the assignment attribute column definition.
   1. In the Object Explorer, expand the Assignment Attribute object, and then select the Assignment Attribute Column object.
   2. In the Assignment Attribute Columns window, select the assignment attribute column you want to disable.
   3. Check the Inactive field.
5. Disable the assignment criteria definition.
   1. In the Object Explorer, select the Assignment Criteria object.
   2. In the Assignment Criteria window, select the assignment criteria you want to disable.
   3. Check the Inactive field.
6. Disable the assignment criteria attribute definition.
   1. In the Object Explorer, expand the Assignment Criteria object, and then select the Assignment Criteria Attribute object.
   2. In the Assignment Criteria Attributes window, select the assignment criteria attribute you want to disable.
   3. Check the Inactive field.
7. Recompile all projects (not just the locked projects) in the .srf file.

   For instructions, see Step 1 of the Updating Your Assignment Manager Deployment with New Configurations.