Create Data Objects and Configure Value Help for a Data Object

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Create Data Objects and Configure Value Help for a Data Object

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Create Data Objects and Configure Value Help for a Data Object

Vandana Vasudevan

September 29, 2021

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September 19, 2019

Beginner

10 min.

Create data objects that hold employee and equipment details, and create value help for a data object attribute.

You will learn

How to create data objects for a scenario
How to configure the value help for a data object

Data objects are the building blocks of a project. They store the input as well as output data of a rule. Data objects consist of attributes that store the data within a data object.

In this tutorial, we will create data objects which hold the employee details and the equipment details. We will also model value help for a data object attribute to choose the values while modeling rules.

Step 1: Create data objects

Choose Data Objects > Local Data Objects.
In the Local Data Objects section, choose +.
In the New Data Object screen, provide the following details for the output data object as shown:

Name Label Description Type

EquipmentInfo EquipmentInfo Equipment Information Structure

You can leave the other fields as it is.
Under Attributes tab, choose + in the Simple Attributes table to create a new attribute for the data object EquipmentInfo.
Enter the following details in the new row:

Name Label Description Business Data Type

ProductDesc Product Description Product description String

Name	Label	Description	Type
`EquipmentInfo`	`EquipmentInfo`	`Equipment Information`	`Structure`

Name	Label	Description	Business Data Type
`ProductDesc`	`Product Description`	`Product description`	`String`

Similarly, create five new attributes with the following values:

Name	Label	Description	Business Data Type
`Price`	`Price`	`Price of the equipment`	`Number`
`EquipmentType`	`Equipment Type`	`Type of equipment`	`String`
`ProductID`	`Product ID`	`Product ID`	`String`
`Currency`	`Currency`	`Currency`	`String`

Then, choose Activate.

Activating will also save and validate the data object.

Similarly, create and activate EquipmentApproval data object and its attribute with the following values:

Data Object:

Name Label Description Type

EquipmentApproval EquipmentApproval Approval required for the equipment list selected for the new hire. Structure

Simple Attributes:

Name Label Description Business Data Type

ApprovalNeeded ApprovalNeeded Is approval needed for the equipment? Boolean

Then, choose Activate.
Similarly, create and activate Equipment data object and its attribute with the following values:

Data Object:

Name Label Description Type

Equipment Equipment Details of the equipment opted for the new hire. Structure

Simple Attributes:

Name Label Description Business Data Type

TotalAmount TotalAmount Total amount of all the selected equipment Number

Then, choose Activate.
Similarly, create and activate Employee data object and its attributes with the following values:

Data Object:

Name Label Description Type

Employee Employee Details of the employee Structure

Simple Attributes:

IsFullTimeEmployee:

Name Label Description Business Data Type

IsFullTimeEmployee IsFullTimeEmployee True if the employee works full time or else false. Boolean

countryofCompany:

Name Label Description Business Data Type

countryofCompany Country or Region of Company Country or Region of company String

company:

Name Label Description Business Data Type

company company Company name String

jobTitle:

Name Label Description Business Data Type

jobTitle jobTitle Job title of the recruit String

Then, choose Activate.
Navigate to the Local Data Objects tab to view the list of data objects.

Name	Label	Description	Type
`EquipmentApproval`	`EquipmentApproval`	`Approval required for the equipment list selected for the new hire.`	`Structure`

Name	Label	Description	Business Data Type
`ApprovalNeeded`	`ApprovalNeeded`	`Is approval needed for the equipment?`	`Boolean`

Name	Label	Description	Type
`Equipment`	`Equipment`	`Details of the equipment opted for the new hire.`	`Structure`

Name	Label	Description	Business Data Type
`TotalAmount`	`TotalAmount`	`Total amount of all the selected equipment`	`Number`

Name	Label	Description	Type
`Employee`	`Employee`	`Details of the employee`	`Structure`

Name	Label	Description	Business Data Type
`IsFullTimeEmployee`	`IsFullTimeEmployee`	`True if the employee works full time or else false.`	`Boolean`

Name	Label	Description	Business Data Type
`countryofCompany`	`Country or Region of Company`	`Country or Region of company`	`String`

Name	Label	Description	Business Data Type
`company`	`company`	`Company name`	`String`

Name	Label	Description	Business Data Type
`jobTitle`	`jobTitle`	`Job title of the recruit`	`String`

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Step 2: Configure value help for an attribute of Employee data object

Choose Employee data object.
Choose Edit and then choose countryofCompany attribute.
Choose Value Help tab and then choose Edit.
Choose +.
Choose Value List from the dropdown list.

Select the newly created Value List.
In the Details section, choose + to add a Value-Description pair and then provide the following values:

Value Description

USA United States

DEU Germany

IND India

AUS Australia

Then, choose Save.
As you edited the data object to configure value help, the status will change to Inactive. To activate the data object, choose Employee in the breadcrumb navigation.
Choose Edit.

Then, choose Activate.
Choose DetermineEquipment01 in the breadcrumb navigation to navigate to the Data Objects tab.