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. Note that for references to a file, the recommendation is to use the Attachment functionality to link documents to an object rather than a characteristic type of File Location. Refer to Attachment Overview for more information. The documentation related to file location remains for upgrade purposes.
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.
The Custom switch is only applicable to Predefined value types. It indicates whether or not an implementation is allowed to add values for a characteristic type whose owner is not Customer Modification
If this switch is turned on, an implementation may add characteristic values to the grid for system owned characteristic types.
If this switch is turned off, an implementation may not add characteristic values to the grid for system owned characteristic types.
The Characteristic Value grid defines the valid values for a Predefined value type of characteristic.
The Characteristic Value is the unique identifier of the value.
Description is the text that is visible in the dropdowns and display when viewing this characteristic value.
Owner indicates if this characteristic value is owned by the system or by your implementation (Customer Modification). The system sets the owner to Customer Modification when you add characteristic values to a characteristic type. This information is display-only.
Where Used
Follow this link to open the data dictionary where you can view the tables that reference CI_CHAR_TYPE in the data dictionary schema viewer.
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