Maintaining field literals information

Select “Maintain Field Literals Information” at the bottom of the "Set HR Options" page.

The “Maintain Field Literals Information” page appears.

To select through Search Criteria

Use this method, to specify search parameters for the field literal details.

To specify the search criteria, you must enter one or more characters that the business process to which the field literal belongs to contains. Optionally, you can enter search criteria for the functional area, default value, current value fields, to narrow your search. Search based on wild card characters is also supported.

Enter the following search criteria values in some or all of the following fields.

Business Process	To view all the business processes containing specific characters, type in the starting character or characters of these business processes.
	Alternatively, type in these characters in any combination with wild cards. Example. To get Employee Movements, type in EM*, to search for those business processes that start with EM.
Functional Area	To view the descriptions of all the functional areas containing specific characters, type in the starting character or characters of these functional areas.
	Alternatively, type in these characters in any combination with wild cards. Example. Sep*, will search for those functional area descriptions that start with “sep” like in Separation.
Default Value	To view all the default values containing specific characters, type in the starting character or characters of these default values.
	Alternatively, type in these characters in any combination with wild cards.
Current Value	To view all the current values containing specific characters, type in the starting character or characters of these current values.
	Alternatively, type in these characters in any combination with wild cards.

Select the “Search” pushbutton.

Note: If only one search criteria value is entered, the system will fetch the records that satisfy this value.
If more than one search criteria value is entered, the system will fetch the records satisfying all the specified values.
If you do not enter any value in the search criteria group box and select the “Search” pushbutton, the system will fetch all the records that are available.

The system displays the following details in the multiline for the records that satisfy the search criteria specified.

Business Process	The description of the business process to which the field literal pertains, for example, Employee Movements, Employee Personal Information etc.
Functional Area	The description of the functional area in the business process
Default Value	The value which has been set by default to the field literal.
Current Value	The current value of the field literal
New Value	Specify the new value for the field literal.

To restore the default value to the field literal

Select “Yes” from the “Restore Default Value” column corresponding to the required field literal in the “Field Literals Information” multiline.
Select the “Save Field Literals Information” pushbutton to save the details.

To save the record

Select the “Save Field Literal information” pushbutton to save the details.