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Provide Metadata to Describe the Application

The retail clothing company wants to ensure that there is some descriptive information about the online catalog application. Custom attributes can be used to provide metadata that describes the application.

The retail clothing company wants to note that the application is only for the online catalog and the email address of the administrator of this application.

To specify metadata for the online catalog application:

1. Click the Custom Attributes tab.

   The Custom Attributes dialog opens.

2. Click Create.

   A table appears with Name and Value fields.

3. Enter values for the fields in the custom attributes table. For this use case, enter the following:
   • Name

     App_Function

   • Value

     online_retail

4. Click Create to add another row to the table then enter the following:
   • Name

     Admin_email

   • Value

     jdoe@retailcorp.com

5. Click Submit.

You have completed all the available tasks related to creating an application security policy.