Using Design Studio, you can configure business entities so that when instances are created in Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management (UIM), the entity IDs are generated automatically. By default, the ID is a numeric sequence number. You can also customize the ID generation by defining an Entity Identification specification and associating it to an entity specification.
Entity Identification specifications enable you to define alphanumeric prefixes and suffixes, which are added to numeric sequence values to form ID values for entities.
An Entity Identification specification must be associated with a Sequence specification. The Sequence specification defines the minimum, maximum, and increment values that UIM uses to generate the numeric sequence value segment of the entity ID. See "Working with Sequence Specifications" for more information.
You can associate an Entity Identification specification to one or multiple entity specifications to define how UIM creates entity IDs when you create an entity using those specifications.
When working with Entity Identification specifications, see the following topics:
After you create an Entity Identification specification, you must configure it.
To configure an entity identification specification:
Open an existing Entity Identification or create a new Entity Identification specification.
See "Creating New Specifications" for more information.
In the Entity Identification Specification editor, click the Specification Properties tab.
Enter the start date, end date, and description.
Click the Properties tab.
(Optional) In the Prefix field, enter an alphanumeric sequence of characters to append to the beginning of the numeric sequence of the ID value.
(Optional) In the Suffix field, enter an alphanumeric sequence of characters to append to the end of the numeric sequence of the ID value.
Do one any of the following:
Click Sequence Specification to create a new Sequence specification.
Click Select to select an existing Sequence specification.
Click Clear to remove a previously associated Sequence specification.
From the File menu, select Save.
Use the Entity Identification Specification editor to define how ID values are created for an entity when the ID is generated automatically.
When working with the Entity Identification Specification editor, see the following topics:
Use the Properties tab to create, select, and remove a Sequence specification. This tab also enables you to specify a prefix or a suffix for an entity specification.
| Field | Use |
|---|---|
| Prefix | Specify an alphanumeric sequence of characters to append to the beginning of the numeric sequence of the ID value. |
| Suffix | Specify an alphanumeric sequence of characters to append to the end of the numeric sequence of the ID value. |
| Sequence specification | Displays the name of the Sequence specification. Click to create a new Sequence specification. |
| Select | Click to select an existing Sequence specification. |
| Clear | Click to remove the association of Sequence specification. |