Setting the Preference for Displaying Choices
You can use a preference Choice Display Format to specify how numeric and non-numeric choices appear in the user interfaces and expressions that reference them. This is a preference available to both users and administrators. Users can set the choice display format for the products and libraries to which they have access.
The format set by this preference determines how the attributes of a choice appear in the user interfaces for:
• Specifying choice filtering criteria
• Creating include, exclude, and enable rules
• Creating basic assigned expressions
• Populating option sets with choices
• Configuring product module
Specifically, for this option you can set:
• Non-numeric Choice Format – The preference value describes the format for displaying the attributes of a choice. To specify the value for the preference, you list the attributes that you want to show (Name, Number, Description), including the delimiters to separate the attributes: (,;:) and the characters to group the attributes: (){}[].
For example, you can choose the following formats: (Number, Name: Description) or {[Number :Name],(Description)}.
• Numeric Choice Format–The preference value describes the format for displaying the attributes of a choice. To specify the value for the preference, you list the attributes that you want to show (Name, Number, Description, and Value), including the delimiters to separate the attributes: (,;:) and the characters to group the attributes: (){}[].
For example, you can specify the following format: {(Name : Value), Description} or [Number : Value],(Description).
• Rule and Expression Format – Select Name or Number to specify how the attributes of a choice appear in the user interfaces for:
◦ Creating and editing advanced assigned expressions, aliases, and conditional rules
◦ Showing the logic for choice rules and assigned expressions