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Attribute Set Report
An attribute set is a set of related attributes. An attribute is in at most one attribute set. Each attribute in a set is directly or indirectly related to another attribute in the set through cascading attribute rules, as a driver or driven attribute, and is not related to an attribute in any other attribute set. Attributes that are not driver or driven attributes (that is, attributes that are not involved in any cascading attribute rules) do not appear in any attribute set.
The Attribute Set Report provides a read-only tree display of the possible values for an attribute. The following factors combine to determine the possible values for the attributes in an attribute set:
• There can be multiple cascading attribute rules defined on the Cascading Attributes tab for a type.
• There can be multiple constraints defined on the Constraints tab on the attribute information page for the attributes involved in those cascading attribute rules.
• Multiple rules can be part of a single cascading attribute set, and it is not always obvious when individual rules are related.
• Not all values from the backing global enumerations are selectable. Only those values in the Available for selection list are included in the Attribute Set Report.
The values displayed in the Attribute Set Report are the values that will be available for selection in the end-user user interface, based on the intersection of the cascading attribute rules and the constraints defined on the attributes involved in those rules. This allows an administrator to quickly identify any problems that result from the combination of cascading attribute rules and constraints:
• An attribute could be over-constrained, meaning that there are conflicting rules or constraints so that no value is possible.
• An attribute could be under-constrained, meaning that there are too many values, and no finite set of values can be determined.
• There could be legitimately no legal values for an attribute, because a constraint or rule had been deliberately defined that way.
For more information on the constraints that affect the Attribute Set Report, see Constraints and the Attribute Set Report.