Skip to main contentA derived skill inherits all the fields from its base skill. You can disable or delete inherited fields that you don’t need or add new fields to extract additional data.
Add a Field
In a derived skill, you can add a new field in the same way as in a custom skill. For information about how to add a field, see Adding Fields. Any fields you create in a derived skill won’t be included in its base skill.
Disable a Field
To disable an inherited field, follow these steps:
- In the Skill Designer, click the skill settings icon to the right of the skill name.
- In the dialog box that opens, click the Fields tab and turn off the corresponding toggle in the row with the field properties. If necessary, you can re-enable a previously disabled field at any time.
Note: When you disable a field, all its associated rules are also disabled. If you re-enable a field and want to continue using its associated rules, you need to manually enable them. For information on how to manage rules, see Configuring validation rules.
Delete a Field
To delete a field you created, do one of the following:
- On the Fields tab of the skill settings dialog box, select the field you want to delete, click the delete icon, and then click Save.
- In the data form, click the delete icon to the right of the field name.
Until you save the settings, you can restore the field by clicking Restore Settings From Base Skill.
Set up field properties
In the Field Settings dialog box, you can adjust the settings of fields inherited from the base skill. To open the Field Settings dialog box, in the Skill Designer, click the field settings icon to the right of a field.
The following settings always match the settings of the base skill and can’t be changed:
- General group of properties: Field name, Data type, Allow multiple items
- Properties in the Text Appearance settings group
- For the Text data type of a text field, the Regular expression property in the Value settings group
- The Barcode type property of a barcode field
You can also reset the new settings to the settings for the base skill at any time by clicking Restore Settings From Base Skill in the bottom left corner of the field settings dialog box.
Edit layout
You can edit the appearance of the data form:
- Change the layout of the data form (see Editing data form layout).
- Restore the layout. To do this, click Restore Layout from Base Skill in the Actions pane. The layout will be restored, and any custom fields you added to the derived skill will be listed at the bottom of the data form. If custom fields were added to a group, these will be listed at the bottom of the group.
