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Any set of related activities carried out by an organization, such as, appraisal or adding a Job Requirement, is a business process. For carrying out a business process, you may need to choose certain items of information in the data entry fields. For instance, while specifying job requirements, you may need to supply the ethnicity preferred for the job. Ethnicity, in this instance, is a process variable.
A process variable can comprise a set of predefined values. For example Ethnicity is a process variable and it can consist of predefined values such as Caucasian, Asian and African. These values are quick codes.
Whenever you need to enter ethnicity in any page during the business process, these values will be automatically listed. You can just choose a value instead of entering the data, thus saving time and effort. In short, quick codes make data entry easier.
More about Quick Codes: Quick codes as explained earlier, are the items that you see in the drop-down list boxes. You can select the required value from the drop-down list box. For example, the “Save As” drop-down list box may show two items; “Draft Mode” and “Approval Mode”. These items or quick codes can be
Defined only during installation. For example, you could decide that the two items listed in the “Save As” drop-down list box can be defined only during installation. This means that when you access the “Modify Quick Code” activity, you cannot add more items for the “Save As” drop-down list box or delete the existing two items. You can merely view the two items and choose one of them.
Defined during installation. You are only allowed to add more items through the “Modify Quick Code” activity. For example, the “Currency” drop-down list box can contain three items defined during installation: “Dollar“, “Pound“ and “Rupee“. At any time later, you can add “Yen” and “Dhiram” through the Modify Quick Code” activity, so that these two items are added to the existing “Currency” drop-down list. List. Subsequently, when you select the “Currency” drop-down list box from any page, all the five items appear.
Defined only through the “Modify Quick Code” activity. For example, only you can define the items that are to appear in the “Bank Account Type” drop-down list box., through the “Modify Quick Code” activity. You can define items such as “Current Account” and “SB Account”, which will appear when you select the “Bank Account Type” drop-down list box from any page.
View Quick Codes: The View Quick Codes activity enables you to view the list of these items, called quick codes, for any process variable. You can view the quick codes and their descriptions. You can also view whether the status of the quick code is active or inactive, and find out whether the record is marked for deletion.
Note: You can view only those business processes for which the permission has been given in the ‘Data Level Security’ component.
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What you can do in this activity?
Through this activity, you can view quick code values.