Attribute Priorities 

MDM allows you to assign priorities to attributes, to define the order in which they should appear in lists, and even whether or not they should be displayed at all. This is an important feature that allows you to override the default alphabetical listing and put the attributes of most interest to you – and users of the repository – at the top of a list. For example, when you select a particular category in Record mode, the attributes for the category show up in priority order (attributes with the same priority level are listed alphabetically), and those that are below the threshold priority do not appear at all (for more information about the Attributes options, see Configuration Options).

When you publish an MDM repository to the Web using the MDM APIs, the attribute priority is again used to determine the order in which attributes should appear in lists, or if they should even be displayed at all. Attributepriorities are thus not only for the convenience of MDM Client users, but also critically important for a well-structured and usable Web catalog.

Unlike the other properties of an attribute, which apply across all the categories to which the attribute is linked, priority can be set on a category-by-category (link-by-link) basis. In other words, the same attribute may have different priorities for different categories, to reflect the different importance it might have for each category.