Attributes contain the data that is associated with objects.
When you create an object, you must specify the attributes that are
assigned to the object.
Descriptions and long descriptions
There is a limit to the amount of data that you can store
in the description fields. Each database has its own specified limit.
If you know that you need to store more data than is available in
the description field, you can add a long description field to an
attribute.
Adding attributes to objects
You can add attributes to an object when you want to provide
more information about that object.
Changing attributes
You can change attributes when necessary. Depending on
how the attribute is configured, you might not be able to modify all
of the fields.
Creating restrictions on attributes
You can create restrictions on attributes to prevent external
data from overwriting the value for the chosen attribute.
Excluding user-defined attributes when duplicating objects
There might be objects that you duplicate regularly but
you do not want to include all user-defined attributes in the duplicated
objects. For each object, you can specify the user-defined attributes
that you do not want included when you duplicate objects. By excluding
attributes, you can reduce the data maintenance work required to work
with duplicated objects.