Attributes with Valid Values

The Sterling Configure Price Quote on Cloud enablesyou to define attributes with the following data types:

• Text defines the attribute as a text value. Textproperties can be defined either as free-form text or as a definedlist of values such as small medium and large. You can configuremultiple values for an attribute and a maximum character length forfree-form text. You can also specify a default value.
• Boolean defines the attribute as a Y/N value. Youcan also specify a default value of Y or N.
• Decimal and Integer defines the attribute as anumerical value in decimal or integer format. You can specify a rangeof allowed numbers such as 60-180 allow any number or a range ofincremental values. For example you can define a range of allowedvalues for the Hard Drive Size attribute in increments of 60 GB suchas 60 GB 120 GB 180 GB and so on. You can also configure a defaultvalue and a multiple list of values.

Derived attributes

Derived attributes are attributes that representa specific aspect of another attribute. You can define multiple derivedattributes for an attribute and assign these derived attributes todifferent categories. For example you can define two derived attributescalled Dimension Range and associate them with the Dimension attributesin the TVs and Computers category. When an online customer searchesfor TVs the system calculates the dimension range for each TV basedon the TV's dimensions and displays the TVs in the appropriateranges. Online customers can locate 32-inch TVs in the 32-35 inchrange and 40-inch TVs in the 40-50 inch range.

Attributes by Reference

Attributemanagement allows you to dynamically create and assign attributeswithout extending database tables. However in some cases you maywant to use attributes that reference database fields such as theyfs_item table. In this case the assigned values of the attributeare extracted from the corresponding field in the database table.For example if an attribute called Lead Time refers to the Lead Timefield in the yfs_item table the value for the item attribute informationis taken from the Lead Time field in the yfs_item table.