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User Properties

The following user properties are used by Trade Promotions:

• Use Authorized Products Only. This user property can be set to either TRUE or FALSE. It turns off and on a validation performed when the Products button is clicked in the CG Promotion List View Non-Corporate view, which is accessed by navigating to Site Map > Promotions > Account Promotions > More Info.

  By default, clicking the Products button automatically adds products to a promotion, based on the promotion's category. Before adding the products, it performs a validation against the account's authorized distribution list (ADL). If the product is part of the category, but not included in the account's ADL, it will not be added to the promotion.

  To disable this validation, change the value of the user property.

• Baseline Dates This is a Business Component object type user property on the CPG Plan Account Promotion Product view. This user property determines the Start and End dates used to associate baseline data to a promotion. The following table describes how using different Values with this user property affects the Start and End dates.

  Table 16.  Baseline Date Values and Behaviors

  Value	Behavior
  Promotion	Uses the promotion Start and End dates.
  Consumption	Uses the consumption Start and End dates.
  Shipment	Uses the shipment Start and End dates.

  When the user property is not used, the default behavior is equal to using Promotion.

  For more information about user properties, see Siebel Tools Guide.