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Adding extended data elements to event definitions
Extended data elements are used to express business information and you can specify array or non-array primitive types as values. An event definition can contain any number of extended data elements or no extended data elements at all. By default, an event definition inherits any extended data elements of its parent event definition. However, using the event definition editor, you can add one or more new extended data elements to an event definition that are independent of the extended data elements of the parent.
To add extended data elements to event definitions:
Procedure
- Open your event definition in the event definition editor.
- In the event definition editor, click the Add
Extended Data icon
. A default extended data element is added to the event definition.
What to do next
Now that you have added a default extended data element to the event definition, you will probably want to rename it to something more meaningful, as described in the topic "Renaming extended data elements."