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Configuring a Hierarchical Picklist

To configure a hierarchical picklist

1. Configure a parent and a child picklist.
   1. Set the Business Component property of the parent picklist to Picklist Hierarchical.
   2. Set the Business Component property of the child picklist to PickList Hierarchical Sub-Area.
2. Go to the business component that contains the fields that you want to associate the hierarchical picklists with.
   1. Set the Picklist property of the parent field to the parent picklist.
   2. Set the Immediate Post Changes property of the parent field to TRUE.
   3. Set the PickList property of the child field to the child picklist.
   4. For the child field, create the following Pick Map objects.

      Field	PickList Field	Constrain
      [name of parent field]	Parent	TRUE
      [name of child field name]	Value

3. Compile changes to a repository file.
4. Add LOV values using the Parent LIC column to designate the parent value.

   See table above for a simple example and see the Constrained Lists of Values section in Applications Administration Guide for a detailed discussion.

5. Test.