Procedure: Creating Field Codes

On the Field Codes tab of Knowledge Manager, right-click and select New Field Code. The New Field Code dialog box (also called Edit Field Code) opens, as shown in "Edit Field Code".

Text

Enter a name and description for the field code. Name is the only required field in this dialog box.

The Field code variables section includes two fields:

System. Click the down arrow to display a list of all system variables.
Custom. Click the down arrow to display a list of all custom variables that you have created.

Create custom variable.

New custom variable

Enter a name (required) and description (optional). Observe the restrictions (see See The names of custom variables must begin with an alphabetic character or underscore, and the remainder of the name must consist only of alphanumeric characters or underscores. This differs from the requirements for the names of other Knowledge Manager objects, which may also contain hyphen and space. For example, 5-usercode is not an acceptable name for a custom variable, but it is acceptable as the name of a screening rule or category.) on custom variable names.
Select a type (String or Integer).
Enter a default value (required). This value is rendered when you click Check Field Codes in the Standard Response Editor (see Step 4 in Creating and Editing Standard Responses).
Click Add.

OK

New Field Code

Select system and custom variables from the drop-down lists, then click Insert to insert them into the Text field.

Enter any other desired text in the Text field. This text must conform to the rules described in Field Code Overview: Field Code Syntax.

Click Check to verify that the field code is well-formed (that is, that it has no typographical errors, missing parentheses, and so on).

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