Delete an entity attribute from a domain

If it becomes necessary, you can delete an entity attribute from a domain.

About this task

You can delete an entity attribute from a domain. If you delete an entity attribute and the entity attribute is used by a condition in an approval rule, none of the conditions will be displayed in the Approval Rule Summary screen corresponding to the approval rule.

To delete an entity attribute from a domain:

Procedure

  1. Create the ApprovalRuleConfig.xml file if it does not already exist in the install_dir/extensions/sbc/webpages/sbc/metadata/approval folder.
  2. Create an element, Attribute, as a child element of the Attributes element.
  3. Set the value of the Action XML attribute to DELETE.

    The entity attribute is deleted from the domain.

    Note: Ensure that you rebuild an enterprise archive (EAR) after deleting an entity attribute.
    Note: You cannot use custom Greex functions to define customized conditions for an Approval Rule.