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Generating Adjustment Items

If you are working with a Multiple Attributes type table, you can use the Adjustment Item Generator function to populate the entire table with a well-ordered set of records that includes all possible combinations of the attributes that affect pricing.

When you use the Adjustment Item Generator, you work with two lists:

• Adjustment Item Generator list. Displays the attributes in the order in which you added them to the Attributes form. The displayed sequence, from top to bottom, indicates the sequence in which the attributes will be listed, from left to right, in each Multiple Attributes type adjustment item.
• The Item Generator list. Displays all the values in the domain of the attribute selected in the Adjustment Item Generator list (every value the attribute can have). You use the Items list to select the attribute values that affect pricing. These values will appear in the generated attribute pricing table.

NOTE:  The Adjustment Item Generator list is designed to create one set of adjustment items after another. Because of this, when you leave the Adjustment Item Generator list to display another view, Siebel ePricer deletes all the data in the Items list. This feature prevents inadvertent use of leftover data when you use the adjustment item generator repeatedly, but it can also cause you to lose data. To avoid data loss, select values for all attributes in your table and click Generate immediately. To modify this feature, you can configure Siebel ePricer using Siebel Tools as described in Configuring Automatic Navigation for the Adjustment Item Generator.

To generate adjustment items for a multiple attributes table

1. From the application-level menu, choose View > Site Map > Pricing Administration > Attribute Pricing.
2. In the Attribute Pricing list, select the attribute pricing table for which you want to generate adjustment items.
3. Click the Attributes view tab.
4. In the Attributes list, make sure that all attributes are listed that are significant for pricing.
5. In the Attributes list, make sure that the Allow Any flag is set correctly for each attribute in the list. If the value for an attribute can ever be omitted in a Multiple Attributes type table—that is, if you will ever allow a blank space (a null value wildcard) to be used—leave the Allow Any box checked for that attribute.

   For more information about the Allow Any option and null value wildcards, see The Allow Any Option and Null Value Wildcards.

6. Click the Adjustment Item Generator view tab.
7. In the Adjustment Item Generator List, make sure all attributes are listed that are significant for pricing purposes, and then do the following:
   1. In the Adjustment Item Generator List, select each attribute in turn.

      When you select an attribute, its domain values appear in the Item Generator list below.

   2. In the Item Generator List, for each value that has significance for pricing, add a check mark to the Affects Pricing field.

      NOTE:  If you doubt whether an attribute value affects pricing, it is best to checkmark an attribute value and include it in the Adjustment Items list. If you generate extra rows in the Adjustment Item list, they are easy to delete.

   3. Continue to select attributes in the Adjustment Item Generator list, and specify the values that affect pricing in the Item Generator list, until you have gone through all the records in these lists.
8. Click Generate.

   The Adjustment Items list appears, displaying all adjustment items you just generated. All data in the Adjustment Item Generator list is deleted.