Example of Configuring an Item Extended Attributes Flexfield

The Item Extended Attributes flexfield provides segments for extending the Item business object. In the Manage Extensible Flexfields task, configure your product business object to include a technical specifications logical page on the UI for the Electronics and Computers category.

In this example, your configuration of this flexfield groups attributes into the following contexts:

Materials and Substances
Compliance and Certification
Voltage

Scenario

The following list shows an example plan for computer attributes for the Item Extended Attributes flexfield. In this example, the Electronics Information page is inherited from the parent Electronics and Computers category.

Page: Electronics Information
- Context: Compliance and Certification, single row
  - ISO 14001 (International Organization for Standardization for an Environmental Management System)
  - ENERGY STAR (energy efficiency guidelines)
  - ROHS (Restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment)
- Context: Voltage, single row
  - Minimum voltage
  - Maximum voltage
  - Current type
- Context: Materials and Substances, multiple rows
  - Material
  - Contain recyclate
  - Percent unit mass
Page: Computer Information
- Context: Processor Specifications, single row
  - Manufacturer
  - CPU type
  - Processor interface
  - Processor class
  - Processor speed
  - Cores

The following table summarizes key decisions for this scenario.

Decisions to Consider	In This Example
Which extensible flexfield is available for configuring a hierarchy of categories?	Item Extended Attributes flexfield

Collecting Technical Specifications

Your product inventory pages for electronics and computers require a technical specifications page. Your product inventory pages for furniture require a furniture specifications page and an assembly instructions page. Items in both the electronics and computer category, and in the furniture category, share attributes for specifying materials and substances.

The figure displays technical specifications logical page in the user interface for the Electronics and Computers category, with attributes in the context of Recovery and Recycling, Compliance and Certification, Operating Conditions, and Materials and Substances

Use logical pages to determine how the contexts appear on the user interface. Use a context to store all the materials and substances required to make a single product. You can configure a context to store multiple rows per entity. The multiple rows are displayed in a table, like the Materials and Substances context.

The Technical Specifications logical page contains the attributes for the four contexts.

Recovery and Recycling
Compliance and Certification
Operating Conditions
Materials and Substances

The figure is a chart showing the Furniture category configured to include a Furniture Specifications logical page and an Assembly Instructions logical page. The two categories (Electronics and Computers, and Furniture) share the Materials and Substances context. — The following figure is an example, where the Furniture category is configured to include a Furniture Specifications logical page and an Assembly Instructions logical page. The two categories (Electronics and Computers and Furniture) share the Materials and Substances context.

Configure Security for the Item Flexfield Configuration

The following table shows an example of data security policies for the Item flexfield.

Data Security Resource	Policy	Role	Action	Condition
ITEM_EFF_B	A	VOLTAGE_SPEC	edit_nontrans_voltage_ctx	All values
ITEM_EFF_VL	B	COMPLIANCE_SPEC	edit_trans_compliance_ctx	All values
ITEM_EFF_VL	C	COMPUTER_SPEC	edit_trans_attrs	ComputerCategoryFilter
ITEM_EFF_VL	D	TELEVISION_SPEC	edit_trans_attrs	TVCategoryFilter

The following table shows the privileges for the three flexfield contexts.

Context	Edit Privilege	View Privilege
Voltage	edit_nontrans_voltage_ctx	NONE
Compliance and Certification	edit_trans_compliance_ctx	NONE
Materials and Substances	edit_trans_attrs	NONE

In this example, anyone can view the contexts' attributes, but the edit privileges are restricted as follows:

Voltage: Only voltage specialists can edit this value.
Compliance and Certification: Only compliance specialists can edit this value.
Materials and Substances: Only computer specialists can edit these attributes for items in the computer category. Only television specialists can edit these attributes for items in the TV category.

To sum up, in this entire example, the Materials and Substances context is secured by a generic action with a condition applied to restrict access by category. Voltage and Compliance and Certification are secured by actions specific to each context.