Editing Configuration Option Properties

Product Manager, System Engineers, and Design Engineers can make changes to the basic details and attributes of a configuration option. You can access the Edit Details page from the configuration option Properties page.


Before you begin:

Access the Properties page for the configuration option.

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About Configuration Features
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Configuration Option Properties Page
  1. From the page toolbar, click Edit Details.

    The Edit Configuration Option page opens.

  2. Modify the details of the configuration option. The following fields can be changed:

    Basics Description
    Display Name The display name of the configuration option. This field is required.

    The following special characters are prohibited in names.

    Special Character Description
    @ Commercial At Sign
    , Comma
    * Asterisk
    ? Question Mark
    [ Left Square Bracket
    ] Right Square Bracket
    # Number Sign
    $ Dollar Sign
    { Left Curly Bracket
    } Right Curly Bracket
    \ Backslash
    " Double Quotation Mark
    < Less-Than Sign
    > Greater-Than Sign
    | Vertical Line
    % Percent Sign
    ; Semicolon
    & Ampersand
    = Equals Sign

    Note: If you should need to use any of these special characters in a name, you can edit the emxFramework.Javascript.NameBadChars property in the emxSystem.properties file located in SERVER_INSTALL\managed\properties\ (Windows) or SERVERHOME/managed/properties/ (UNIX).

    Name The name of the configuration option. This field is required. See above for rules regarding use of special characters.
    Owner The owner of the configuration option. Click to assign a different owner.
    Additional Information Description
    Design Responsibility The Responsible Design Organization (RDO) for the configuration option. Click to assign a different RDO.
    Display Text Type in the Display Text associated with the configuration option.
    Description Type in a description of the configuration option.
    Configuration Criteria Description
    Selection Type Select Single or Multiple from the drop-down list. This field is required.

    Note: If the configuration option being edited or its associated configuration feature is referenced in any configuration rule, then editing of the Selection Type is blocked to maintain the exclusivity conditions of the rules.

    Key In Type Select Blank, Date, Input, Integer, Real or Text Area. For more information on Key In Type, see Creating a Configuration Feature. This field is required.
    Classification Description
    Interface Attributes This field is displayed only if ENOVIA Library Central is installed. The Library Central application provides the recommended way to classify products and features. When Library Central is installed, you can create a general library with as many class objects as needed to define a hierarchy of container objects. Class objects are nodes in the library that serve as categorization devices, grouping together and giving a common name to objects with common attributes.

  3. Click Done to save your changes.

    The Edit page is dismissed and the Properties page is refreshed with the new settings.