Manage Answer Types

The Answer Types tab allows creating and managing Answer Types within the IA Cloud Enterprise. These Answer Types are used for the following actions:

• Create tasks.
• Create ETL configs.
• Create field schemes.
• Add Answers to tasks, configs, and field schemes.

Generally, an Answer is a form input field of a special type, but some Answer Types are designed as complex blocks, see the following topics:

• Information Extraction: IE
• Taxonomy

To start managing Answer Types, go to System Settings > Answer Types.

For the list of available Answer Types, see the Answer Types section.

On this page, you can perform the following actions:

• Create: you must know the Answer Type Code, for example, FREE_TEXT.
• Edit: you can change Title, Value Type (single, multi and separator, combined).
• Delete

Changes made to Answer Types affect all tasks with appropriate Answers.

Add and edit Answer Type

1. Select System Settings > Answer Types from the main menu.

2. Click Create Answer Type or click the appropriate link in the Title column to edit.

   

3. Complete the required fields as follows:

   Field Name	Description
   Answer Type Title	The title of the answer type will be shown in the dropdown list of the Edit Answer dialog.
   Answer Type Code	See the list of available Answer Types [here](./answer-types.md).
   Answer Type Group	Answer Types are divided into groups when they are displayed in a dropdown of Task Edit dialog.
   Answer Value Type	Single value, Multi value, or Combined. See details [here](./answer-types.md).
   Answer Value Separator	Comma, or Pipe for Multivalue Answers.
   Answer Type Description	Additional information explaining the characteristics of the answer type.
   Show Default Value	Enable default value displaying.
   Options Available	Enable Answer options (for example, number of rows for Long Text)
   Options Description	Additional information explaining the Answer Options section.
   Make answer type available for entities	Tick the entities where this Answer Type can be used: Manual Task Bot Config Field scheme

4. Click the Save button.

Apply Answer Types

You can select all the created Answer Types for Answers in Task Designer or in ETL forms.