Picklists

A picklist is a list of preset values. Many picklists have been pre-configured in Upchain and appear in various locations throughout Upchain’s applications, including many workflow primitive drop-down options and item types. By configuring picklist values ahead of time, it ensures that your users do not accidentally enter incorrect or irrelevant values.

The Picklists section of Administration enables Tenant Administrators to add new values to an existing picklist or update its description. Tenant Administrators cannot remove or change existing picklist values. Tenant Administrators also cannot create their own custom picklists.

View available picklists to edit

1. Open Administration > Engineering > Picklists.

The following picklists are available to the Tenant Administrator to edit:

• CN.DISPOSITION - Used on change notices (CN) to describe the reason why an orphaned item’s H quantity (historic quantity) has been redistributed to other items, and appears in the Disposition column on the CN.
• ITEM.FINISH – An item attribute that describes what finish is applied to the item.
• ITEM.HEATTREAT – An item attribute that describes what heat treatment is applied to the item.
• ITEM.MATERIAL – An item attribute that describes which material the item is made from.
• ITEM.MATURITY – An item attribute that describes the maturity level of the item. Read more about item maturity here.
• ITEM.SHAPES – An item attribute that describes the shape of the item.

Edit a picklist's description

1. Select the picklist from the list for which you want to edit its description.

   The picklist’s details are shown on the right side.

2. Click Edit.

3. Type in a new description or change the existing description.

4. Click Save in the top-right corner.

Add values to an existing picklist

1. Select the picklist from the list to which you want to add a value.

   The picklist’s details are shown on the right side.

2. Click Edit.

3. Click Add ().

4. Type in the value you want to add to this picklist.

5. Click Save ().

6. Repeat this process until you have your complete list.

7. Click Save in the top-right corner.