Defining change header and line attributes and attributes groups enables you to capture additional information related to issues, change requests, and change orders. You can create user-defined attributes with validation logic and associate them to change types as a collection of attributes within an attribute group.

Attributes are defined by their names and values, and are saved within attribute groups. You can associate attribute groups to a change header type or change line type. You must define separate attribute groups for header types and line types. You can reuse the same attribute group across different change categories and their change types. Users enter the values for the attributes on the pages that you create for each change type. You can also define how attributes are displayed for your change objects to improve usability.

Prior to creating user-defined attributes, do the following:

• Group related attributes within the same attribute group.

• Create a change object role with custom privileges to define attribute group security, if necessary. You can secure the attribute group by setting Edit/View privileges. Later on, only users with certain roles can view or edit those attributes.

• Determine the data type of the attributes (for example, number, char, date).

  Attention: You cannot edit the data type after you save the attribute.

• Set up the Unit of Measure Classes (for example, Currency) and Units of Measure (for example, US Dollars).

• Establish the validation rules for each attribute and create the corresponding value sets. For more details, see Defining Value Sets for User-Defined Attributes.

• Decide how you want the attribute group to be displayed - single-row or multi-row.

The figure below shows how the display options are set for the different attributes. The figure on Defining Change Attribute Types shows the results of these display option settings. For example, you can see that the attribute Customer is set to display as a text field, and indeed it does. Note that the attribute Customer uses the value set Customer, which is really a table that is displayed as a list of values (LOV) text field. Also notice that the attribute Customer is maintained as part of a unique key. You can add to/edit the unique key as long as doing so does not destroy the uniqueness (creating duplicates) of existing records.

Also note in the figure below that Enabled parameter is set to No for the Company Name attribute, indicating that this attribute will not be displayed on the change page. You can always disable attributes; however, you cannot delete attributes if the attribute group has already been associated with a change type.

   To create a change attribute and attribute group:

1. From the Oracle Applications Home Page, select an appropriate responsibility, then Setup Workbench. Select the Change Management tab.

2. Select the Header Attributes link.

3. In the Header Attributes Search page, find an existing change header attribute group or create a new one. To create a new one, click Create.

4. On the Create Attribute Group page, enter the following:

   • Internal Name - Required. The internal name of the attribute group. This name must be unique.

   • Display Name - Required. The display name of the attribute group. This name is not required to be unique.

   • Description - Optional. Describes the attribute group.

   • Behavior - Select whether to create a Single-Row or Multi-Row attribute group. The default behavior is single-row.

5. If you select Single-Row, then enter the Number of columns in the page layout. Required.

   This determines the number of columns used to display the attributes within the attribute group.

6. If you select Multi-Row, then enter the Number of columns shown in the table and the Number of rows shown in the table. Required.

   These two fields determine how the multi-row attributes within the attribute group are displayed.

7. In the View field, optionally select a view privilege.

   If you leave this field blank, then anyone can view attribute values within this attribute group when this attribute group is associated with a change object. If you select a view privilege, then only those users with the privilege can view the associated attribute values.

8. In the Edit field, optionally select an edit privilege.

   If you leave this field blank, then anyone can add or change attribute values within this attribute group when this attribute group is associated with a change object. If you select an edit privilege, then only those users with the privilege can edit the associated attribute values.