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Multivalue Attribute
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consider a simple category called PertainingTo and has a field (attribute) called CountriesWhereUsed.
So in the Gui it may look like PertainingTo:CountriesWhereUsed.
Now I have to add metadata to a document.tSo I entered in that
USA.When I search now I will be saying Give me the document where PertainingTo:CountriesWhereUsed is USA.Livelink will give me this document.My manager comes to me now saying well this document is used in Germany also.H'mm how do I do it.I go to the category definition and take off the locked and add one more possible attriute value.After that I enter in the second field Germany.I could then use the maximum to be the number that I want the user to fill in and the default multi rows to show with that number.So et yourself with asimple category with maximum five ,unlocked and default two and you will understand it.
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
James Thurber, New Yorker cartoon caption, June 5, 1937
Certified OT Developer,Livelink ECM Champion 2008
So in the Gui it may look like PertainingTo:CountriesWhereUsed.
Now I have to add metadata to a document.tSo I entered in that
USA.When I search now I will be saying Give me the document where PertainingTo:CountriesWhereUsed is USA.Livelink will give me this document.My manager comes to me now saying well this document is used in Germany also.H'mm how do I do it.I go to the category definition and take off the locked and add one more possible attriute value.After that I enter in the second field Germany.I could then use the maximum to be the number that I want the user to fill in and the default multi rows to show with that number.So et yourself with asimple category with maximum five ,unlocked and default two and you will understand it.
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
James Thurber, New Yorker cartoon caption, June 5, 1937
Certified OT Developer,Livelink ECM Champion 2008
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By default I belive it goes upto 50 probably the number can be tweaked in the opentext.ini file,I am not sure.
Coming back to your question.
If attribute is mandatory and you have exposed all 5 values in the GUI that is now you see a -minus icon and not a plus icon then LL will insist on the five values.
However if you have just left the plus icon the user will get by providing a single value.So if you wanted your users not to skip mandatoriness I would in my cat definition expand all values and leave it locked so user does not have to do anymore work than to enter those values.
Try these on document objects since containers behave kind of
differently and you are bound to be confused again by why do folders do not obey mandatoriness that I set up.That is also settable in the administration pages.
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
James Thurber, New Yorker cartoon caption, June 5, 1937
Certified OT Developer,Livelink ECM Champion 2008
Coming back to your question.
If attribute is mandatory and you have exposed all 5 values in the GUI that is now you see a -minus icon and not a plus icon then LL will insist on the five values.
However if you have just left the plus icon the user will get by providing a single value.So if you wanted your users not to skip mandatoriness I would in my cat definition expand all values and leave it locked so user does not have to do anymore work than to enter those values.
Try these on document objects since containers behave kind of
differently and you are bound to be confused again by why do folders do not obey mandatoriness that I set up.That is also settable in the administration pages.
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
James Thurber, New Yorker cartoon caption, June 5, 1937
Certified OT Developer,Livelink ECM Champion 2008
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OK...so maximum only means the number displayed to the user not the maximum entries you can have. So the setup should be "default" to 1 and then there would be "+" sign to add other values. "Locked" would be set to "no" so that the users could add other values.
If we added 10 values but the "maximum" was set to 5, only 5 would show on the screen.
How would the users see the others?
Thank you so much for all the help with this...I would like to be clear before we make any decisions and also, we don't have our environment set up yet so I am unable to test
If we added 10 values but the "maximum" was set to 5, only 5 would show on the screen.
How would the users see the others?
Thank you so much for all the help with this...I would like to be clear before we make any decisions and also, we don't have our environment set up yet so I am unable to test
If you want users to unlock the five more I belive you have to set it to not locked default 5 and maximum 10.Users would see five will have a plus for adding the other 5
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
James Thurber, New Yorker cartoon caption, June 5, 1937
Certified OT Developer,Livelink ECM Champion 2008
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
James Thurber, New Yorker cartoon caption, June 5, 1937
Certified OT Developer,Livelink ECM Champion 2008
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Thank you again So if I didn't set a maximum, would it just show the number of values that were filled in. We have fields that we never know how many values they will have.
Locked = No
Default = ??
Maximum = not set
Would this just have one value for the time being and then a plus sign to add the extras. When others get added users will see the new values - however many that may be?
So if I didn't set a maximum, would it just show the number of values that were filled in. We have fields that we never know how many values they will have.Locked = No
Default = ??
Maximum = not set
Would this just have one value for the time being and then a plus sign to add the extras. When others get added users will see the new values - however many that may be?
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