You can create a new offering or edit an existing offering
to reference the newly created Custom MBO.
About this task
You can only add a custom MBO to Offerings that have a Custom
Presentation. An offering can have more than one custom MBO, but each
custom MBO must be unique.
Procedure
- On the Offerings tab in the Offerings
application , click the New icon to create
a new offering.
- Add a unique name, short description, and long description
for the offering.
- Select a classification for the offering from the list
in the Classification field.
- Click the Add Offering to Catalog action
and choose a catalog from the list.
- Click Save to update the offering
definition.
- On the Specifications tab, choose
Custom Presentation in the Presentation Type field.
- Enter a name in the Custom Dialog Name field.
If you want the data associated with the custom MBO to display in
tabular format, you will need to select the dialog which has a table
control object defined and references the custom MBO attributes.
- In the Specifications table, add
the specification attributes for the offerings.
Note: These
are the CRSPEC attributes which are in addition to the custom MBO
attributes. The custom MBO attributes will not be visible from offerings
they are associated with.
- On the Specifications tab, click
the New Row button in the Custom MBOs section
to specify the custom object to use with this offering by entering
the details in the Custom MBO fields.
- Click Save to update the offering
definition.
- Change the Status of the offering to Active.
Results
The new offering is created with the tabular data capabilities
where the user can add multiple rows of information for the offering
they are submitting.