Data Area - Main

Use this page to define basic information about a data area. Open this page using Admin > System > Data Area.

Use the Data Area Query portal to search for an existing data area. Once a data area is selected, you are brought to the maintenance portal to view and maintain the selected record.

Description of Page

Enter a unique Data Area name and Description. Use the Detailed Description to describe what this data area defines in detail. Owner indicates if the data area is owned by the base package or by your implementation (Customer Modification).

CAUTION: Important! If you introduce a new data area, carefully consider its naming convention. Refer to System Data Naming Convention for more information.

Click the View Schema to view the data area's expanded schema definition. Doing this opens the schema viewer window.

Click the View XSD hyperlink to view the business object's expanded schema definition in XSD format.

To extend another data area, reference that data area in the Extended Data Area field. By extending a data area you can add additional elements to a base product data area.

Here's an example of an extended data area:
  • The product releases with data area A, which contains elements a, b, and c.
  • Your implementation creates data area CM-A, which contains element z, and references data area A as the extended data area.
  • At run time, everywhere data area A is included it will contain elements a, b, c, and z.