Alternatively, as shown in Figure 1 - 49, you can open a flexfield window for a key flexfield to display a separate field for each of its segments.Ĭombination of Segment Values A combination of segment values, also known as a key flexfield code combination, uniquely describes a business entity stored in a key flexfield. In Figure 1 - 48, the designated segment separator for the Accounting Flexfield is a period ".". You can simply type into a key flexfield, the segment values you want and separate each segment with a character called a segment separator. One organization may choose to customize the Accounting Flexfield to have three segments called Company, Department, and Account, while another organization may choose to customize the flexfield to have six segments called Company, Cost Center, Account, Product, Product Line, and Subaccount, as shown in Figure 1 - 48 in the Account column.Ī key flexfield looks like any other field in a block. The Accounting Flexfield in your Oracle Assets application is an example of a key flexfield that identifies a unique chart of accounts. The result is that your organization can use the codes it needs rather than change its codes to meet someone else's requirements. Your organization can also define rules that govern what combination of segment values are valid (cross-validation rules), or define dependencies among the segments. Your organization decides for each key flexfield, how many segments an entity has, what each segment means, what values each segment can have, and what each segment value means. When your organization initially installs an Oracle Applications product, your organization's implementation team customizes all the key flexfields in that product to use meaningful code segments to describe each key flexfield entity. Although both codes represent the same part, they each have a different segment structure that is meaningful only to the organization using that code.Ī key flexfield is flexible enough to let you use any code scheme you want to describe an entity. But another organization may identify the same notepad with the part number code "PD-8x14-Y-NR". For example, your organization may use the part number code "PAD-NR-YEL-8 1/2x14" to represent a notepad that is narrow-ruled, yellow, and 8 1/2" by 14". Each segment in the code represents a characteristic of the entity.
Most organizations use "codes" to identify general ledger accounts, part numbers, and other business entities. You can think of a key flexfield as an "intelligent" field that your business can use to store information represented as "codes." Definitions Key Flexfields A key flexfield is a field made up of segments, where each segment has both a value and a meaning.
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