Attribute Groups for Reference and Link Types

Adding a Reference or Product to Classification Link type to an attribute group provides easy identification, a customized view, and control of approvals via user privileges.

Easy Identification

The name of the attribute group is used as the name of the section that displays the reference or link within the object editor. This provides a logical grouping for the references or links.

Otherwise, the reference or link displays in a section with the 'Ungrouped' label.

Customized View

A customized view can be defined on the attribute group of all reference or link types in the group to display additional information on the reference or link. For more information, refer to the 'Creating a Customized View' section in the Attribute Groups topic of the System Setup documentation.

Control of Approvals via User Privileges

Perhaps most importantly, an attribute group allows you to control user privileges for approval of the reference or link. This means that approval of specific types of references and links is based on the user's access to the attribute group, so that users will only be allowed to approve references or links of the types in the attribute group.

For example, consider a user who should only be allowed to approve references used for the web. As shown below, approving Product 55489-W (Socket Wrench) should also allow approving the images used for web.

To implement this, the reference type named 'Web' is added to an attribute group named 'Web Reference Types.'

A reference or link type can be added to as many attribute groups as needed by different users with different privileges.

A user privilege is set up to include the 'Approve Reference' privilege for reference types in the attribute group 'Web Reference Types.' For more information about setting up privileges, refer to Action Sets in the System Setup documentation.

A user with this privilege setup will only be allowed to approve references or links in the attribute group 'Web Reference Types.' 

For more information on adding a Reference or Product to Classification Link type to an attribute group, refer to the 'In Attribute Groups Section' of: