Custom fields

You can use the custom fields to store information or data that needs to be managed but does not have a pre-defined entry in SAM Core. An unlimited number of custom fields can be created for the agreement, application, computer/mobile device, license, and user categories.

A custom field can be mandatory or not. If you decide to have it mandatory, you need to define a default value. The default value will be automatically added to new category items, as well as to existing items without a value in the custom field. For existing items that already have a value in the custom field, this information will not be overwritten. New items cannot be saved unless there is a value in all mandatory custom fields.

A custom field can be used as the basis for compliance calculations when using a custom compare value type as the metric. For more information, see Custom compare value types.