Custom attributes on elements copied to other data locations
Custom attributes are defined per CLC Data Location. When a data element is copied to a different CLC Data Location, inheritable custom attributes with values assigned from the first location will be present in the copied data element, but cannot be edited. If the element in the new location is copied to the original CLC Data Location, the original custom attributes' values will again be editable.
Any custom attributes that did not have a value set at the time the data will copied, are removed in the copy. If copied back to the original CLC Data Location, all location-specific attributes are again available, and those without values are, as usual, not set by default.
A custom attribute of a given name in a given CLC Data Location is different to a custom attribute of the same name in a different CLC Data Location. So, for example, a custom attributed called "Shelf number" can exist, separately, in two CLC Data Locations. If a data element is copied from one of those locations to the other, it could have two custom attributes called "Shelf number", where only the value for the current location would be editable. Local searches consider only the names of attributes, so searching would find the data element based on the value for either of these "Shelf number" attributes.
See Searching custom attributes for further details.