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Metadata Element Profiles

Required Action

Attribute

Attribute Description

Identifying Attributes

Name

requiredAction

Label

Required Action, Action Code

Definitional Attributes

Definition

A field that lets system users identify the action required to respond to the correspondence.

Purpose

Allows the correspondence unit or task assigner to indicate what action is to be taken by other users in the system. Lets a system user know what action is expected of them when viewing the folder, and what timelines and milestones exist for the folder.

Constraint

Applies to folder.

Datatype Name

Alphanumeric

Relational Attributes

Value Domain

Based on the executive correspondence system in use in the institution. Based on a pick list.

Conditions of Application

Obligation

Mandatory

When is Element Populated?

At the time a task is added to the folder.

How is the Element Populated?

User.

Reference

FREC, 3.1 Metadata Requirements, Reference #2.11, 3.11 Supplementary Requirements, Reference #13.9; ECMUCS, 3 Flow of Events, Reference #3.1.10, #3.1.18, #3.1.25, #3.1.29

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