Specify Design Preferences
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Overview
This activity enables you to specify the design preferences for a component. The system captures the naming conventions and default values for data types for a specified component.
Click the checkbox next to a component in the multiline and click the “Specify Design Preferences” link from the main page.
The “Specify Design Preferences” page appears that enables you to specify the design preferences for the selected component.
The following details are displayed in the header:
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Business Process |
The description of the selected business process is displayed from the main page. |
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Component |
The description of the selected component under the specified business process is displayed from the main page. |
There are two tabs displayed namely Specify Naming Convention and Specify Default Values.
Click the “Specify Naming Convention” tab from the “Specify Design Preferences” page.
This tab is displayed by default on launch of the page.
To edit the naming conventions
The list of existing naming conventions is displayed in the “Naming Convention Details” multiline:
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Category Name |
The name of the category. |
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Category Value |
The value for the specify category name. You can edit this value. |
Note: The Category Name field accept characters ‘a to z’, ‘A to Z’, ‘0 to 9’, ‘_’ (underscore). The first letter of the name should be a character. The Category Value should be unique for a component.
Click “Save Naming Convention”.
The naming convention details are saved for the specified business process component.
Note: The system displays an error message in case of a duplicate entry.
Click the “Specify Default Values” tab from the “Specify Design Preferences” page.
The “Specify Default Values” tab is displayed.
To edit the default values
The list of existing naming conventions is displayed in the “Default Value Details” multiline:
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Data Type |
The description of the data type. The following are the list of default data types displayed: Character - Ascii Fixed – used for defining Ascii fixed characters For e.g. if char(20) is defined, and 5 characters are used the system allocates 20 characters only irrespective of what is used. Character - Ascii Variable – used for defining variable characters For e.g. if varchar(20) is defined, and 5 characters are used, the system allocates only what is utilized i.e. 5 characters. Character - Unicode Fixed – used for defining fixed characters for Multilanguage support. For e.g. if nchar(20) is defined, and if 5 characters are used, the system allocates 20 characters only irrespective of what is used. Character - Unicode Variable – used for defining variable characters for Multilanguage support. For e.g. if nvarchar(2) is defined, and if characters are used, the system allocates only what is utilized i.e. 5 characters. Date – used for defining date characters Date - Time – used for defining the date and time stamp characters Integer – used for defining integers Numeric – used for defining numeric characters Time – used for defining the time stamp characters |
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Default Value |
The value for the specified data type. You can edit this value |
To save the default values for the business process component
Click “Save Default Values”.
The default value details are saved for the specified business process component.
4 Business processes and components should have been defined through the “Define Process” activity.