Valid Asset Location Attributes

For simple use cases where additional details about an asset location needs to be captured and these details vary by location type, you may define these details as location-related characteristic types and associate them with each asset location type as needed. With this simplified extension method, the base location BOs may be used as is without any schema change.

Implemented as a characteristic, the value of such asset location attributes may only be of a free text or restricted to a predefined list of characteristic values.

Use the following steps to guide configuration:

• Consider what attributes you want to have recorded for each of your asset location types. For example, Facility ID or Life Cycle Status.
• Define a characteristic type of the appropriate type value. Use a Predefined Value Characteristic Type for a list of valid values and an Adhoc Value Characteristic Type for a simple text value. Link the Characteristic Type to the Asset Location Attributes (W1_​NODE_​TYPE_​ATTRIBUTE) entity.
• Associate each attribute with the asset location types it is applicable to. Asset locations created from the asset location type will display the list of asset location attributes in the Asset Location Attributes zone on the Asset Location record.
  Note:

  Asset Location Attributes zone will only display on the Asset Location record if the Asset Location Type it was created from includes at least one asset location attribute.
• Consider whether your business process requires validation algorithms to be plugged in on the asset location business object to further validate or enforce other business rules related to asset location attributes.