To define a characteristic type, open .
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Enter an easily recognizable Characteristic Type and Description for the characteristic type. Owner indicates if this characteristic type is owned by the base package or by your implementation ( Customer Modification).
Use Type of Char Value to classify this characteristic type using one of the following options (refer to There Are Four Types Of Characteristics for more information):
File location value. Characteristics of this type contain a URL. The URL can point to a file or any web site. Characteristics of this type might be useful to hold documentation/images associated with a given entity. For example, the image of the formal contract signed by a customer could be referenced as a file location characteristic on a service agreement. When such a characteristic value is defined on an entity, the value is suffixed with a button that can be used to display the URL in a separate browser window.
File location characteristic values must be entered in a "non-relative" format. For example, if you want to define a characteristic value of www.msn.com, enter the characteristic value as http://www.msn.com. If you omit the http:// prefix, the system will suffix the characteristic value to the current URL in your browser and attempt to navigate to this location when the launch button is pressed. This may or may not be the desired result.
Due to browser security restrictions, opening URLs using the file protocol ("file://") from pages retrieved using http does not work for Internet Explorer version 7 or later, or in Firefox. If the file protocol is used, the browser either does not return properly or an error is thrown (e.g., "Access Denied", which usually results from cross site scripting features added for security reasons).
This issue has no known workaround. To comply with browser security standards, the recommendation is to move the target files to an FTP or HTTP server location to avoid protocols that are subject to browser security restrictions.
Use the Allow Search by Char Val to indicate if searching for an entity by this characteristic type is Allowed or Not Allowed. Refer to Searching by Characteristic Values for more information.
Where Used
Use the Data Dictionary to view the tables that reference CI_CHAR_TYPE.
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