Provisioning Tool Guide

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Adding a Custom Data Type to a Field

You can associate custom data types with reference entity fields. When you associate a custom data type with a field, you enter the location of the resource where your custom data types are defined. For example, you can attach files, include hyperlinks, and provide image URLs.

Click

Business Entity

Modeling

, and then select

Reference Entities

Select the reference entity.

In the tree view panel, select

Fields

, and then click

Create

The

New Field

form appears in the properties panel.

In the

New Field

form, enter a field name and a field label name.

For example, enter

Picture

for an image,

for a hyperlink, or

Document

for an attachment as the field name and field label name.

Select the URI,

urn:co-types.informatica.mdm

, where your custom data types are defined.

Select a custom data type.

Before you add a data type to a field, create the custom data types in the namespace.

To associate the field with a base object column, select a base object column.

Before you add a field to a node, an MDM administrator must create the base object column in the MDM Hub.

Optionally, select the

Read Only

Required

Searchable

, and

Filter

check boxes based on your requirement.

If you select

Searchable

, additional search properties appear. For information about the search properties, see Configuring Search.

Click

Apply

The changes are saved but are not published to the MDM Hub.

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Adding a Custom Data Type to a Field

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