Catalogs

Learn about the configurations required for catalogs.

Automatically enter external keys

If this option is enabled, an external key is automatically entered for the entry in the catalog base language when adding new catalog values, see Unique System-wide Identification of Catalog Values.

The external key is of the format:

< station >_<catno>_<code>

or

< station >_<catno>_<code (parent)>_<code>

This setting is applied globally.

If an external key is already present in the database as the external key of another catalog value, no key is created for the current catalog value. In this case, the following message is written to the active module's log file: Catalogs ;Warning ;Generated external key already exists: '1_18_2'. In this case, you need to enter the external key manually, see Editing Variable Catalogs.