Data Area - Main

Use this page to define basic information about a data area. Open this page using Admin Menu > Data Area.

Description of Page

Enter a unique Data Area name and Description. Use the Detailed Description to describe what this data area defines in detail. Owner indicates if the data area is owned by the base package or by your implementation ( Customer Modification).

CAUTION:

Important! If you introduce a new data area, carefully consider its naming convention. Refer to System Data Naming Convention for more information.

Click on the View Schema to view the data area's expanded schema definition. Doing this opens the schema viewer window.

To extend another data area, reference that data area in the Extended Data Area field. By extending a data area you can add additional elements to a base product data area.

Here's an example of an extended data area:

The product releases with data area A, which contains elements a, b, and c.
Your implementation creates data area CM-A, which contains element z, and references data area A as the extended data area.
At run time, everywhere data area A is included it will contain elements a, b, c, and z.

Where Used

Follow this link to open the data dictionary to view the tables that reference F1_DATA_AREA.