Attributes

An attribute is a user-defined or Lawson-defined field that you can assign a value to provide more information and more flexibility in reporting. Attributes can hold additional information specific to these fields:

• An accounting unit or account (GL, IC, PO)

• A cash code (CB)

• A vendor (AP, MA, PO)

• A customer (AR, OE, BL, WH)

• A lease (LM)

• An activity (AC, BR)

• An item (IC, PO, OE, WH, WO)

• A user analysis (SL)

• A transaction (AC, GL, ML, or SL).

Attributes are used to group or categorize records for reporting, inquiry, or processing. Attributes are Lawson-defined or user-defined.

• Lawson-defined attributes are pre-loaded into the system using Attribute, Element Load (MX100) and can be available for the Attribute field in Attribute (MX00.1):

  Example

  Lawson-defined attribute: LESSOR

• You can also create your own attributes to store additional information:

  Example

  User-defined attribute: BUY_OUT