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Using Work Attribute Sets

When you need to satisfy an implementation-specific data requirement by creating a view of an item not known in the data model, you need to define a new data item. In CA Gen such data items are included in work attribute sets. You use work attribute sets to keep track of execution time information such as totals and counts.

Work attribute sets are composed of attribute definitions but are not referred to as entity types because they do not reflect the permanently stored reality of the business.

Work attribute sets are similar to entity types in many ways. For example, they can:

• Appear in import, export, and local views.
• Be placed on layouts.
• Be passed by a USE action in an action diagram.

Entity actions (such as CREATE, READ, UPDATE, and DELETE) are not available for work attributes. This prevents them from finding their way into the database.