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Intended use for 'Meaning' and 'Description' in Lookups and Value Sets

edited Dec 27, 2018 4:46PM in Human Capital Management 1 comment

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What is each column/field intended for.

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Hello,

In our Added Common Lookups, Custom Standard Lookups and Value Set values, there are two areas for configuration which appear on the UI when the end user is selecting a value.  

These areas are entitled 'Meaning' and 'Description' - the meaning seems to be the label for the user of the look up code which is clear, but I cannot find any documentation in terms of WHY the description appears on the front end, and how this can be utlised to add value to the end user experience.  I have seen it used for translations so as to have the EN in the 'meaning' and the other language in 'description' but I am quite sure this is not how Oracle intended it to be used.

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