Not able to enter a Distinct EA twice in the same Custom Section

Question

(Answering a question asked offline.)
By design, you are not able to have the same Distinct Extended Attribute twice within a custom section. I believe you might be able to define it twice, but they can't both be the default. If you are allowed to do this then when you use the Customer Section on a spec, you cannot add the column or row with the second Distinct EA, unless you remove the first one.
The basic rule that this follows is that a spec can only have one instance of a Distinct EA. This is because when you access a Distinct EA, you can access it by it's ID. If there are more then one with the same ID, then you wouldn't be able to access the EA by ID, since it would return multiple.
For example, if you need to capture the PH level of a Material spec, if you just used a generic EA with an ID of 'value', then when you want to access it, say in a Calculated Numeric EA, you would have to access it using 'value'. If you also used this same EA to capture percent milk, and it was on the same spec, what would be returned when accessing 'value'? This is a problem.
So instead, you should create a 'PHLevel' EA that is distinct and that would gaurantee that you can access it by ID.
Segal
Edited by: Segal on Jul 2, 2012 7:52 PM

Answer 1

The issue was fixed after including the custom jar in esourcing90/lib folder and redeploying