Defining an enumeration

An enumeration is a human-recognizable value that you use in formulas. It corresponds to a less recognizable value that Infor Public Sector uses, such as a number or letter. For example, you may have an enumeration for each day of the week. You can use an enumeration's name, such as Monday, in a formula instead of the enumeration's value, such as 2. Infor Public Sector comes with several enumerations already defined, and you can add other enumerations as required.

  1. Select System > Agency Personalization > Schema Manager.
  2. Click the Enumerations node below the Infor Product Families tree.
  3. In the Enumeration Collections tree on the right, browse to the node for the collection that you want to add an enumeration for.
  4. Right-click the collection node and select Create Enumeration Value.
  5. In the Common ID field, type a name for the enumeration according to your agency's naming scheme.
    You will use the common ID throughout Infor Public Sector to identify this enumeration. Although the common ID is not required to be unique, making it unique will help you identify it later.
  6. Type the value of the enumeration in the Enumeration Value field.
    You can indicate that the value is a string by enclosing it in single quotation marks. Otherwise, Infor Public Sector treats the value as numeric.
  7. Type a description of the enumeration in the Enumeration field.
  8. Click Save.
    Infor Public Sector closes the dialog box, adds the enumeration to the enumeration collection, and shows the enumeration in the Enumeration Collections tree.