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Metadata Element Profiles

Text Field

Attribute

Attribute Description

Identifying Attributes

Name

textField

Label

Comments, Notes, Description, Text Field, Summary, Task Text Field

Definitional Attributes

Definition

A written note providing annotations or explanations about any aspect of the handling of correspondence.

Purpose

A field that allows users to add remarks related to an executive correspondence action. It permits system users to communicate to one another information about correspondence that may not be obvious from the standard profile information (for instance what work they've performed or some information related to the status of the correspondence).

Constraint

Applies to folders, attachments and tasks.

Datatype Name

Alphanumeric

Relational Attributes

Value Domain

N/A - free text.

Conditions of Application

Obligation

Optional

When is Element Populated?

At various points during the processing of correspondence.

How is the Element Populated?

User.

Reference

FREC, 3.1 Metadata Requirements, Reference #2.6, #2.10, #2.14; ECMUCS, 3 Flow of Events, Reference #3.1.8; ECMUCS, 3 Flow of Events, Reference #3.1.9, #3.1.17, #3.1.18, #3.1.25, #3.1.29, #3.1.31, #3.2.1.1, #3.2.4.2, #3.2.5.2

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