Entity Attributes

You can use attributes to describe an entity.

For example, you could use the following attributes to describe a person entity:

• Eye colour

• Height

• Marital status

 

Your administrator configures the attributes you can record for an entity and any rules regarding these. For example, they can make it compulsory to specify a value for an attribute.

 

The following icons are used to indicate the different types of attributes:

Comments Mandatory icon	You'll need to enter a comment when you specify a value for this attribute.
Comments Optional icon	You can enter comments about an attribute value if you want to. Once you've entered a comment, the icon shows lines inside the speech bubble .
Historical Values icon	The attribute has been updated and has an audit history.
Multiple attribute + icon	You can enter several values for this attribute.
Mandatory attribute * icon	ICM will automatically add these attributes, if you don't add them yourself.

 

See Maintaining Attributes of Entities.