An Oracle White Paper

April 2012

Introduced in Release 6.0

E29314-01

Formatting Custom Data

# Overview

You now have some formatting options when working with custom data.

# Hide Row Header

Depending on your use case and searching needs, you may not feel the need to repeat the row header over and over again throughout the section. You can add the “hide header” tag to the repeatable row’s Row Header Information popup to accomplish this.

Figure 1. Section Displaying Row Headers

Figure 2. Same section leveraging the Hide Header tag

This tag can be used on all row types, repeatable and none repeatable. When all rows of a custom section contain the Hide Header tag the entire row header column will be hidden. If only a few rows out of the set have the Hide Header tag the bold text in the cell will be hidden on those rows.

Important Note: Error messages and advanced custom section searching still leverage the row header name.

# Hide Custom Section Header

Depending on your use case and searching needs, you may want to display multiple sections under one header.

To create a section with a hidden header, perform the following steps:

1. Create the custom sections following the same steps as outlined in the Agile Product Lifecycle Management for Process Administrator User Guide.

2. Select the Hide Header checkbox on the Custom Section templates that will be shown in the second position as shown in the following figure:

Figure 3. Hide Header checkbox

3. Make sure to adjust the display order of the custom sections so they display appropriately. Use the Custom Section Order tool in ADMN, as shown below. Notice how the Fact Panel section is displayed above the Fact Panel Nutrient Values section.

Figure 4. Custom Section Order tool

Below is an example of the sections displayed as one compound section, notice the first section listed is titled as Fact Panel, while the second section is titled Fact Panel Nutrient Values and its header is hidden:

Figure 5. Sections displayed as one compound section

Important Note: Remember that if users are using the Advanced custom data search method they will need to reference the name of the section with the hidden header. So the name of the section should be very descriptive or training will need to be provided. These values can also be searched using the quick method where the section name is not needed.

# Display Extended Attributes as Bold or Italic text

To format an extended attribute, perform the following steps:

1. Create the extended attribute following the same steps as outlined in the Agile Product Lifecycle Management for Process Administrator User Guide.

2. Select the bold and/or italics tags, as shown below:

Figure 6. Selecting Bold or Italics tags

Example of bolded extended attributes:

Figure 7. Bolded extended attributes

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