You can create a new offering or edit an existing offering to reference the newly created
Custom MBO.
About this task
You can only add a custom MBO to Offerings that have a Custom Presentation. An offering can have
more than one custom MBO, but each custom MBO must be unique.
Procedure
-
On the Offerings tab in the Offerings application , click the
New icon to create a new offering.
- Add a unique name, short description, and long description for the offering.
- Select a classification for the offering from the list in the
Classification field.
- Click the Add Offering to Catalog action and choose a catalog from
the list.
- Click Save to update the offering definition.
- On the Specifications tab, choose Custom Presentation in the
Presentation Type field.
- Enter a name in the Custom Dialog Name field. If you want the data
associated with the custom MBO to display in tabular format, you will need to select the dialog
which has a table control object defined and references the custom MBO attributes.
- In the Specifications table, add the specification attributes for
the offerings.
Note: These are the CRSPEC attributes which are in addition to the custom MBO attributes. The custom
MBO attributes will not be visible from offerings they are associated with.
- On the Specifications tab, click the New
Row button in the Custom MBOs section to specify the custom object to use with this
offering by entering the details in the Custom MBO fields.
- Click Save to update the offering definition.
- Change the Status of the offering to Active.
Results
The new offering is created with the tabular data capabilities where the user can add multiple
rows of information for the offering they are submitting.