The following information helps you understand what data will display in views for the User Controlled Attributes that you create and for any hierarchies created from those attributes.
Default Values Show For User Controlled Attributes Until You Import Master Data –The default value assigned to a User Controlled Attribute at the time you created it will display for all of its members that do not yet have master data. As you begin importing master data for them, the default value members will be replaced with your imported data. In the following example, the User Controlled CPrnt Shipping Status attribute has had master data imported for some but not all of its members. The default value assigned to the attribute was a question mark ?. The five members displaying that mark are ones for which master data has not been imported yet.
Imported
Values Are Used As Hierarchy Members For Hierarchies Created From
User Controlled Attributes – You have the option to create a hierarchy
from an User Controlled Attribute. This lets you see your data summarized
by that attribute by making the attribute available as a level that
can be included in rows / columns of a view. The master data you import
for a User Controlled Attribute also is used to populate the members
of its hierarchy/level if you opted to create a hierarchy from that
attribute. In this example, the first level on rows is from a hierarchy
that was created from a User Controlled Attribute. The values a user
imported for the attribute are what became the members for that hierarchy’s
level.
The Shipping Status attribute in the prior example had a hierarchy
created from it. The first image that follows shows the related properties
for that hierarchy and its level in the User Controlled Attribute
Maintenance window. The second image that follows shows the hierarchy’s
level used in a view. It is used as the first level on rows. Subsequent
levels drilled to are grouped by their respective Shipping Status
member. This example shows Product Brand results summarized by each
Shipping Status member.
