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Manage a CI Transaction

An administrator can create, view, or modify a CI data transaction. The CI Transaction Detail page displays all nonblank attributes in the transaction. If you clear the Hide Empty Values check box, all CI attributes are displayed. For additional attribute information, point to the attribute name.

Important: Data that you enter using this web interface must have the same format as if specified in native SQL or XML. For example, when you enter data for a lookup field, refer to the section on XML Input. When you want to specify an owner, to look up an owner by userid, use braces { } to specify the lookup field. For example, to find the name associated with userid "admin", enter admin{userid} in the owner column.

The TWA accepts free-form text as case sensitive by default unless you use the -I GRLoader option to enable case insensitivity. Attribute values are not validated until load-from-TWA run time, so values must be entered exactly as required. If you enter string values for nonstring MDB fields, GRLoader issues warnings when loading to the CMDB. You can also simulate loading the data to predetermine (-simci) whether a set of transactions can create new CIs (ambiguities with existing CIs) or report errors in the data.

An administrator can do the following:

• View a transaction
• Create a transaction
• Edit the transaction
• Save or Cancel transaction changes (Edit mode)
• Reset the original transaction data (Edit mode)
• Show or hide data (Attributes tab)
• Set the target CI (Reconciliation tab)

Restrictions:

• If tgt_id is defined for a transaction, it displays as a CI name in the Target CI field.
• If superseded_by is defined for a transaction, it displays as a CI name in the Superseded By field.
• TWA entries are not logged.

Note: For more information about data values for special attributes, see How to Load the TWA Using GRLoader.