How User Variables and Contract Expert Rules Uses Value Sets

You can use value sets to determine what entries contract authors can make in user variables and in Contract Expert feature questions.

You can use them either to specify the format an entry must take, or to create a list of values contract authors must choose from.

Value sets are a common application component which you can set up by navigating to the Setup and Maintenance work area and searching for the Manage Contract Terms Value Sets task. This topic highlights value sets nonprogrammers can set up for Oracle Fusion Enterprise Contracts.

This topic covers:

• Using value sets for creating user variables

• Restrictions for values sets used in Contract Expert feature rules

Using Value Sets for User Variables

You use value sets in the setup of user variables for one of the two following purposes:

• To set up the list of values the contract author must choose from to enter the value

• To specify only the length and format of the information the author must enter manually

Suppose, for example, that you need to create a user variable contract authors can use to enter the name of one of your warehouses into a clause during contract authoring. Without any knowledge of programming, you can:

• Create the list of values the contract author will use to select one of the warehouses.

  You create the values first and then enter them into an independent value set.

• Create a format only value set that restricts the entry to a specified number of characters.

Other value set features are also available for use by nonprogrammers. If you want to restrict the entry of the available warehouses by country, then you can make the above value set dependent on a second value set of countries, for instance.

Restrictions for Using Value Sets in Contract Expert Rules

If you are using the value set for a variable that will be used in Contract Expert rules or to specify the values used in responses to a question used in such a rule, then you only use a subset of the value set features as described in the following table.

Value Set Format Type	Value Set Validation Type	Supported?
Char	Independent	Yes Valid operators are: Is, Is Not, In, and Not In
Char	Table	No
Char	Translatable Independent	Yes Valid operators are: Is, Is Not, In, and Not In
Char	None	No
Char	Pair	No
Char	Special	No
Char	Dependent	No
Number	None	Yes Numeric operators.
Standard Date / Standard Date Time	Not Applicable	No
Date / Date Time	Not Applicable	No