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Value Assignment Screen: Default Values

Description

In Release 3.0, you can decide how the default values which you have defined for characteristics in characteristic maintenance or class maintenance are to be interpreted by the system.

There are two possibilities:

You make settings for default values on the value assignment screen of the object allocation or find object functions. Choose function Extras -> Default values....
You can influence how the default values are handled in the following ways:

1. If you select the indicators Enter and Copy, the default values are displayed and treated as if they were user input. The characteristics appear in a different color to show you that they are treated as user input.
2. If you select Delete instead of Enter, the default values are not displayed on the value assignment screen and are not shown in a different color if you select them. You can select the default values in the same way as any other value.
3. The indicators Enter and Remove apply to the default values of all characteristics. If you only want to make these settings for particular characteristics, you should proceed as follows:
a) Select the characteristics.
b) Choose the function Extras -> Default values.
c) Specify whether the default values are to be deleted or entered.
d) Select the indicator Only selected entries.
4. If you do not want the default values considered as user input, but want to see them as a default setting, select Confirm instead of Copy.
The default values are still shown on the value assignment screen but are not treated as user input. The fact that the selected characteristics are not displayed in a different color shows that they are not treated as user input. You must then select and then confirm the values, as you would with other characteristic values. Only then does the system regard the characteristic as having an assigned value. If the characteristic is a required characteristic, you must select the default value or some other value. If the characteristic is an optional characteristic, the default values are displayed in the dialog box, but you need not select a value.
You can only leave the value assignment screen if values have been assigned to all the required characteristics, and if all the optional characteristics which contain default values have been confirmed.

Further notes

If you have defined actions or selection conditions which involve setting a characteristic value, it can happen that a characteristic with default values automatically has values assigned to it due to the values assigned to another characteristic. In this case, you do not need to confirm the values of the characteristic manually. However, this also means that you must call up the dialog box for this characteristic separately if you want to see which default values have been defined for the characteristic.