Oracle Applications uses two types of flexfields, key flexfields and descriptive flexfields. A key flexfield is a field you can customize to enter multi-segment values such as part numbers, account numbers, and so on.

Flexfields, while they are a major feature of the Oracle E-Business Suite as a whole, are merely a mechanism to provide many application features. Key flexfields provide a flexible way for the Oracle E-Business Suite to represent objects such as accounting codes, part numbers, job descriptions, and more.

You can use flexfields to modify the business objects and meet enterprise data management requirements without changing the data model or performing any database programming. Using flexfields, you can capture different data on the same …

2014年4月25日 · FEW BENEFITS OF FLEXFIELDS: 1) Ability to customize your applications to conform to your current business needs. 2) Ability to capture data that would not otherwise be tracked by your application by Descriptive Flexfields.

2011年2月27日 · There are two types of flexfields: key flexfields and descriptive flexfields. A key flexfield appears on your form as a normal text field with an appropriate prompt. A descriptive flexfield appears on your form as a two–character–wide text field with …

2011年4月17日 · Descriptive flexfields lets you add additional fields to the form in order to track additional information needed by the business that would not be captured by the standard form. Descriptive flexfields can be context sensitive, where the information your application stores depends on other values your users enter in other parts of the form.

2011年2月27日 · Your flexfield can display different prompts and fields for different end users based on a data condition in your form or application data. Both key and descriptive flexfields may allow more than one structure. In some applications, different users may need a different arrangement of the segments in a flexfield (key or descriptive).

Oracle Applications Flexfields Guide Release 11i. The part number for this volume is A75393–01. Copyright 1994, 2000 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.

There are two types of flexfields: key flexfields and descriptive flexfields. For an explanation of flexfields features and concepts, as well as information on setting up flexfields in Oracle Applications, see the Oracle Applications Flexfields Guide .

2012年1月19日 · You can use the System Items Flexfield (also called the Item Flexfield) for recording and reporting your item information. You must design and configure your Item Flexfield before you can start defining items. All Oracle Applications products that reference items share the Item Flexfield and support multiple-segment implementations.