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Overview

A site, person, or organization can be assigned one or more Site Types. Site Types provide the ability to classify records for use when filtering reporting.

Adding or Editing a Site Types

Site Types can be added to a site either manually by an internal user from the Site Details screen, or by configuring a form to add the site type automatically as part of form integration configuration.

Adding or Editing a Site Type

Site types can be managed under Admin → Lookups → Site Types.

A Site Type consists solely of a code and descriptionOn the Site Type list page, either click the Add New Site Type button or click a row to view and/or edit an existing project type. The Edit Project Type page opens:

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The following fields are displayed on the Site Type page:

Field

Description

Site Type Code

A unique code for the site type.

Site Type Description

A descriptive name for the site type.

Applicable Category

The applicable category is used to restrict availability of site types when a user is creating a new site.

Select the category for which the site type can be specified (e.g., Organization, Site, Person), or if the site type is valid for all site categories, leave it unspecified (blank).

For example, if a user is creating a new Organization site, the site types they can select are limited to those with Applicable Category of Organization or unspecified.

Site Alternative Name Types

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Site Alternative Name Types are administered directly in the database. There is no screen for managing this data.

Column

Description

CODE

A unique code for the site alternative name

DESCR

The site alternative name description

PREFIX_CODE

Specifies the prefix used on the automatic number to be generated

For use when Alternative Names are auto-generated. See the following section for more information.

TTL_NUM_CHARS

Specifies the total number of characters to be used when auto-generating a site alternative name.

For use when Alternative Names are auto-generated. See the following section for more information.

SEQ_LAST_USED

Stores the last number used in an auto-generated site alternative name.

For use when Alternative Names are auto-generated. See the following section for more information.

IS_UNIQUE

Indicates that the site alternative name can only be added once to a site. Once added, the same alternative name cannot be added again to the same site.

IS_SYS_GNRTD

Indicates that the site alternative name is system-generated. Users cannot manually add system-generated site alternative names

IS_DISP_SITE_SEARCH

Indicates that the site alternative name is indexed as part of the Site Search

IS_NFORM_LOOKUP

Indicates that the site alternative name should be available as a lookup in nFORM form design for display in drop down and type-ahead boxes.

Automatically Generate a Site Alternative Name when a Site Type is added to a Site

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The following steps would be performed to enable this capability:

  1. Add a Site Type with a code "DAM" and description "Dam"

  2. Add a Site Alternative Name Type to the database with code "NID" and description "NID Number". Set the prefix code to "D-", set the total number of characters to 6, and set the sequence last used to 1000

  3. Link the Site Type(s) to the Site Alternative Name by adding a linking record to REF_SITE_ALT_NAME_TYPE_TO_REF_SITE_TYPE (must be performed in the database)