Manage Fields page

On the Manage Fields page, you can view all defined fields, including fields that apply only to certain states in the topic or action workflow, or to certain types of attachments. You can add, modify, and delete these fields.

General activities

The following links appear at the top of the page and affect the entire page:

Row-specific activities

The following menu options are available from the Row Action menu (Row menu), located in the left most column of the table, and affect an individual row in the table:

Field descriptions—Manage Fields page

Field Description

Name

Oracle database column name for the field. 

Format

One of the following values:

  • String—Alphanumeric text value for the field.
  • Integer—Positive integer value for the field.
  • Date—Date in mm/dd/yyyy format in the field.

Filter

  • Yes if the field acts as a display filter, appearing above tables of topic-related data as a drop-down list populated by all stored values. See Identifying a field as a filter field.
  • Select No for fields that are not used to filter displayed data.

Custom/Standard

One of the following values:

  • Standard—A field included in all topic workflow configurations.
  • Custom—A field added to the topic workflow configuration by your organization.

Display Name

Name of the field as it appears in the user interface.

Order

Position of the field within the workflow. The number indicates the place in the workflow of the field.

The context determines where the Oracle Empirica Signal application uses the order:

  • For a topic—In the Add Topic or Topic General Information section of the Topic.
  • For an action—In the Add Action or Action General Information section of the Topic Action page.
  • For an attachment—On the Add Attachment page.

You can modify the order of both standard and custom fields.

Note:

The order applies to all fields with a given context. You can assign a single order value for the field.

Context

One or more of the following values:

  • Topic
  • Action
  • Attachments
  • Work teams

Field Type

One of the following field type options:

  • Single Value—A single value field type. This is the default field type.
  • Append-only—A multiple values field type in which a previously selected value cannot be removed. See Adding a multi-selection list field.
  • Multiple Values—A multiple values field type that supports adding and removing values.
  • Append-only and constrained—An append-only field whose values are restricted based on work team. See Constraining field values by work team/
  • Linked—The subsidiary field in a linked pair. See Adding linked fields.
Field Values

Defined values for the field: