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Adding Product-Related Questions

The online application form on the

Supplier Portal

includes a page for product-related questions. You can add questions to this page from

Supplier 360

When you create a product and service, you can define questions specific to the product and service.

Supplier 360

, click

New

, select

Products and Services

, and then click

The

Product and Services

page appears.

Enter a code for the product and service and a description for it.

To relate the product and service to a parent product and service, enter the code for the parent product and service.

In the

Questions

section, click

Create Child Record

Configure the following values.

Field	Description
Question Code	Identifier for the question.
Question Description	Question that you want the suppliers to answer. A colon (:) appears at the end of every question on the Supplier Portal.
Active Indicator	Indicates whether you want the question to be visible to the suppliers.
Answer Type	Type of answer you want to configure for the question. Use one of the following answer types: Date. Indicates that the answer is a date. Multi-value. Indicates that the answer can have more than one option. For example, for a confirmatory question, you can have Yes and No as options. Text. Indicates that the answer is a short descriptive text. For example, a security question might have a short descriptive answer. Text Area. Indicates that the answer is a long descriptive text. For example, a question related to product description might have a long descriptive answer.
Lookup Options	Required only if you select Multi-value as the answer type. Comma-separated options for the question. Use the following format: "Option1,Option2,...OptionN" For example, "Yes,No" The Lookup option lists all the child products in the Supplier business entity record even though the parent product is deleted. To remove the reference to the child products, you must delete all the child products associated with the parent product from the Products and Services section and then delete the parent product.
Mandatory Indicator	Indicates whether the question is a required question.