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Choose Administration→Format and Range Policies from the NFM-P main menu. The Format and Range Polices form opens.
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Expand Format/Range (Property Rules) and choose Format Policy (Property Rules) from the Select Object Type drop-down menu.
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Click Create or choose a format policy and click Properties. The Format Policy (Create | Edit) form opens.
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Configure the required parameters.
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Select an object and property for which you need to apply the name format policy in the Property panel.
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Click on the Users tab.
Note: Only users and user groups that are assigned to this policy are affected by the policy. You can apply one or more format policies to a user or user group.
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Click Add. The Select User form opens with a list of users.
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Select one or more users in the list and click OK. The Format Policy form is refreshed with the selected users.
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Click on the User Groups tab.
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Click Add. The Select Group form opens with a list of user groups.
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Choose one or more user groups in the list and click OK. The Format Policy (Create | Edit) form is refreshed with the selected user groups.
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Click on the Text Block Formats tab to further define the format of the text. For example, an operator can classify a group of services with a similar name. The operator can also create a tool tip text to describe the purpose of the parameter.
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Click Move Up or Move Down to change the sequence of the text blocks in the text string.
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Click Create and perform one of the following:
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Choose Auto-Filled Parameter. The Auto-Filled Parameter (Create) form opens.
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Choose Masked Text Parameter. The Formatted Text (Create) form opens.
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Choose Number Range Parameter. The Number Range (Create) form opens.
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Choose Text Parameter. The Text (Create) form opens.
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Configure the required parameters.
The Min. Length and Max. Length parameters are not configurable when the Read Only parameter is enabled.
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Save your changes and close the forms.
Note: After a format policy is applied to a service, a drop-down menu is displayed beside the object field during object creation, to indicate that a format policy is in effect. When there is only one matching policy, the drop-down menu is dimmed. When there are multiple matching policies, the drop-down menu is used to choose a policy. The sequence of the policies in the drop-down menu is based on the value of the Priority parameter.
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