About the Specification Editor

The Specification editor can contain many different tabs. Some of these tabs are specific to a small subset of specifications, and others are relevant to most specifications. The following tabs appear in most specification editors:

Characteristics: Defines characteristics associated with the specification. See "Adding Characteristics to Specifications" for more information.
Specification Properties: Defines basic information about a specification. See "Defining Specification Properties" for more information.
Related Specifications: Defines relationships between a specification and other specifications. See "Defining Specification Relationships" for more information.
Configuration Spec Usage: Defines the configuration specifications and configuration items in which a specification is listed as an option. This tab enables you to add specification options to configuration items without having to modify the configuration specification. See "Defining Configuration Specification Usage" for more information.
Rules: Defines rulesets and extension points that extend or customize the behavior of entities created from the specification. See "Associating Specification-Based Extension Points to Rulesets" for more information.
Layouts: Defines how the properties of entities created from the specification appear in various pages of the UIM user interface. See "About Specification Layouts" for more information.
Media: Defines any media files associated with the specification. See "Adding Media to a Specification" for more information.
Extends: Defines the entity type that is defined by the specification. See "Reviewing Specification Extensions" for more information.

Most Specification editor tabs include the Display Name field, where you can enter the name that appears in Design Studio editors and in UIM. Design Studio supports multiple languages for this field. The field adjacent to Display Name displays your list of languages. You can define a display name for any language you select from the list.

If your preferences are set up to work in one language only, the system displays only the [default] option. See “Defining Language Preferences" for more information.