Users of a software system (persons) need to fill in forms and search for results easily. This means every software system should support the ability to select values for some field from predefined values or previously entered values. These fields are called lookups . What differentiates lookup fields from other fields in the system is that the value of a lookup has a small set of attributes (ID, Name, and Description). The Lookups module’s main functionality is to enable software systems to manage lookups and their values.
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