- User Guide and Online Help
- Settings and administration
- System configurations
- Manage topic workflow configurations
- Manage fields
- Edit a field
Edit a field
You can edit all defined fields, including general field information as well as the values defined for the fields.
- In the left navigation pane, click the Settings icon
(
).
- In the Configure System section, click Manage Topic Workflow Configurations.
- Click the configuration's Row Action menu (
), and then click Edit.
- On the Edit Topic Workflow Configuration page, click the Fields card.
- Click the field's Row Action menu (
), and then click Edit.
- Modify the fields as described below:
Field Description Column name
Not editable. The name of the field as it appears in the Oracle database.
Display name
The label that appears when adding or editing a topic or action.
Format
Not editable. Type of data to be collected: Date, String, or Integer.
Length
For a string format field, the Length field is editable. If you provide a new length that is less than or equal to an existing value, the page displays an error message.
Type
The type determines how users can specify values:
- 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.
- Multiple Values—A multiple values field type that supports adding and removing values.
- Linked—The subsidiary field in a linked pair.
- Constrained values based on work team—An append-only field restricted to the work team context.
Context
Oracle Empirica Signal element to which the field is applied. One or more of the following values:- Topics
- Actions
- Attachments
- Work teams
Filter
Make this a filterable field that appears in the Select Filter drop-down list on the Topics and Actions tabs on the Topic Management page.
- Click Save.
Parent topic: Manage fields