Our company is working on internal controls and streamlining some processes and one of the ones that came up was a vendor-monitoring system to track contract renewal dates, department which uses the vendor, ownership of the account, etc. At first, leadership wanted to make a listing in Sharepoint that would have required a lot maintenance, not to mention it would have been double-entry since we already maintain a vendor list within Jamis. So we convinced them we could customize the vendor list in Jamis by adding the required user-defined fields under Attributes. The best part is each attribute can be customized - some as text fields, a calendar, a list to select from, even a list with multiple selections. Then all that was needed was to add the fields to the Vendor Inquiry, and we have the resource the executives needed without having to maintain two lists in separate places.
Other examples we have used this for are to track Revenue by State under the Job lists. (We used to manually type the state abbreviations but that left too much room for human error so we are in the process of converting to a combo list.) And we are exploring adding attributes to the Employee setup to help sort various reports by Contract.
Are you using custom attributes? What are some examples where you have found them especially helpful.
