Overview
Zift PRM supports a large number of standard Entities, and you can add Custom Entities to support your own business processes. An Entity is any kind of thing that you want Zift PRM to be aware of.
To be useful, an Entity needs one or more characteristics that distinguish it from both other Entity types and all other instances of the same Entity. For example, each Person Entity represents an individual and we need to be able to differentiate between what is a Person and what is an Organization. We also need to be able to differentiate between any two individual users. In Zift PRM, those Entity characteristics are called Profiles. Each Profile is like a question that you ask of the Entity. The answer to the question is called a Profile Attribute. There is no limit to the number of Attributes that are allowed for a Profile, assuming the type you choose allows the options.
For example, the Person Entity has a Job Function Profile. This means that Zift PRM can store and use a Job Function against each Person. The Job Function Profile works like a question that Zift PRM can ask about each Person: What is this Person's Job Function? For this particular Profile, the possible answers (Profile Attributes) have been pre-defined so that they can be chosen from a list. When this Person Profile is added to any Screen, it will display a list of choices as check-boxes and the user can select the most appropriate choice. Alternatively, the Profile could have been created to prompt users to type in their own answer.
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