Enter General Person Info

Explanation

This activity is used to enter or maintain general information for a person, e.g., language, country, creation date etc. This mandatory task is to be performed by a system administrator or an equivalent person.

Prerequisites

This activity has the following prerequisites:

• The person ID must be defined.

System Effects

As a result of this activity:

• The person is available in various Lists of Values system-wide when creating approval routings and document distribution information.
• The person can be used in the design/project environment for associating relevant information in IFS Engineering. 
• The person may be associated with an ORACLE User ID for electronic sign-off and workflow in certain areas of the system.

Window

Person

Related Window Descriptions

Person
Person/General

Procedure

To perform this activity, follow these steps:

1. Open the Persons window.
2. Create a new record or query for an existing one.
3. If entering a new record, in the Identity field, enter up to 10 alphanumeric values for the ID.
4. In the Full Name field, enter or edit the person's name.
   Note: When you enter a new person record you can enter the name of the person directly in the Full Name field. But if you are editing an existing record, then click Edit to open up the Full Name dialog box.
5. In the Default Language list, click the default language for this person.
6. In the Country list, click the person's country.
7. Save the changes.