Welcome to “Local Reference Fields in AA” learning unit.

This learning unit will enable

you understand local reference fields in AA.

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 After completing this learning unit, you will be able to understand:

Local reference fields in AA

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 Consider a scenario where you wish to store sector information of the customer with
the arrangement. But the CUSOMTER property class does not have a SECTOR field.
What can be done?

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 1. Is it possible to add user-defined fields to a property class like you add local
reference fields to an application?

2. The answer to the question is YES. Adding local reference fields to a property
class is similar to adding local reference fields to an application.

3. You will now learn the steps involved to do the same

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 1. Properties in AA share the same set of fields among five different applications like
AA.PRD.DES.<PROPERTY.CLASS> that holds the designer information,
AA.PRD.PRF.<PROPERTY.CLASS> that holds proofing information, when a
product is proofed, this file is updated with the proofing information for specific
property classes
AA.PRD.CAT.<PROPERTY.CLASS> that holds the catalogue information,
and finally the
AA.ARR.<PROPERTY.CLASS> that holds the arrangement information.
AA.SIM.<PROPERTY.CLASS> - Simulation

2. Adding a field to a property means to replicate the same across all the four files.
Instead of doing so, AA allows you to add the Local Reference field just to one file and
T24 automatically replicates the field to all the other files. This is how the whole T24
architecture for AA works.

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 1. Create a local reference field called CUST.SECTOR for the CUSTOMER property
class

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 1. Create a local reference field called CUST.SECTOR using the LOCAL.TABLE
application

2. Attach the local reference field to the CUSTOMER property class using
LOCAL.REF.TABLE application

3. Check if the field has been attached properly using STANDARD.SELECTION

application

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 1. Create a local reference field in the LOCAL.TABLE application

2. What you see here is a field called CUST.SECTOR created using the
LOCAL.TABLE application.

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 1. Attach the local reference field to the AA.PRD.DES.<PROPERTY.CLASS> file. If
you see here, the local reference field CUS.SECTOR has been added to
AA.PRD.DES.CUSTOMER file.

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 When the LOCAL.REF.TABLE record is authorised for the designer, standard
selection records of the property’s proof, catalog and arrangement files are rebuilt
along with the designer record.

To see this local reference field in an arrangement, you should add it to appropriate
versions. You will learn how to do this in the coming few slides.

Note: When local reference field is added for an application, the same field is added to
all the applications for which the field “Local Ref Master” in FILE.CONTROL record is
set to the current Application name.

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 What did we learn?

Need for Local reference fields in AA

How to attach Local reference fields to a property class

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