This section provides an overview of the attributes supported by the ETV and XTT step. The attributes are grouped together by functional area and a brief description of each of is provided. See the reference section for a complete description of each attribute.

Validation

The following attributes apply validation rules to the contents of the element they are attached to:

• enumeration - A comma separated list of values. The element must contain one of the values listed.
• maxLength – The maximum length of the value in the element.
• minLength - The minimum length of the value in the element.
• required - The element much contain at least one character.

These next attributes provide control over the message that is reported when an element fails a validation rule:

• severity - The severity of the message. One of info, warning, error or critical.
• target - The target of the validation message. For example, when processing employee data, this would typically be the employee name.
• targetWID - The Workday ID of the target, this is used to provide a hyperlink in the message.

The messages use the name of the element, with underscores replaced with space, to refer to the value that failed the validation check. This is a useful convention where the elements can be given names that are meaningful to an end user. The following two attributes provide alternatives to this approach which can be used where the element names are not appropriate. It is anticipated that in most cases the element names will be sufficient and it will be unnecessary to use either of these attributes.

• name - Use this attribute to provide a name to be used in validation messages instead of the element name.
• nameAttribute - This attribute contains the qualified name of another attribute that contains the name to be used in validation messages.