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Oracle EBS: Key Flexfields: Winning This Game, Etc. So "Key" Means Important. The Term "Flexfield" Is Composed of Two

Key flexfields provide flexibility in Oracle EBS modules like the General Ledger. They allow organizations to define accounting structures and categorization schemes tailored to their needs. Key flexfields get their name from being important ("key") fields that are flexible. This flexibility comes from three aspects: 1) the ability to define different numbers and types of segments, 2) assigning customized value sets to each segment, and 3) defining security rules for segment values. Overall, key flexfields allow modules like General Ledger to capture organization-specific information at varying levels of detail.

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Oracle EBS: Key Flexfields: Winning This Game, Etc. So "Key" Means Important. The Term "Flexfield" Is Composed of Two

Key flexfields provide flexibility in Oracle EBS modules like the General Ledger. They allow organizations to define accounting structures and categorization schemes tailored to their needs. Key flexfields get their name from being important ("key") fields that are flexible. This flexibility comes from three aspects: 1) the ability to define different numbers and types of segments, 2) assigning customized value sets to each segment, and 3) defining security rules for segment values. Overall, key flexfields allow modules like General Ledger to capture organization-specific information at varying levels of detail.

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Oracle EBS: Key Flexfields

First lets break the term to define it in more detail. Key means important, For Example
somebody says General Ledger is the key module in Oracle EBS or he played the key role in
winning this game, etc. So Key means important. The term Flexfield is composed of two
words, Flex and Field, Flex means flexible. Field is self explanatory term and is referring to
the input field in any software.
Key Flexfields are used by some modules like for example Oracle General
Ledger usesAccounting Flexfields, Oracle Assets uses Location, Category and Asset
Key Flexfield, etc. To see which application uses which use the Segment Setup Window. In
General Ledger the navigation is
GL>Setup>Financials>Flexfields>Key>Segment
On Application field click (B)Torch and press the initial letter of the application, Like i for
Inventory.
Now what or how can any field is flexible? Well there are Three types of flexibilities you get from
KFF.
1.

Every KFF needs segments. The number of segment depends on the requirement. This
segment is one form of flexibility. For Example: One organization decides the COA Structure
or Accounting Flexfields as Company-Branch-Department-Natural Account.Another
organization decides it COA as Company-Branch-Department-Product-Account.

2.

Each segment has a value set. This value set is another form of flexibility. Both of these
flexibilities are ONE TIME. Once you have decided the segments and value sets of any KFF
structure, it is freeze.

3.

The third type of Flexibility in KFF is related to Security. You can define multiple security
rules on segment values for multiple responsibilities. How? We will find out later.

So this is the flexibility Oracle has in Key Flexfield. Or what I understand from the term key
flexfields.
In General Ledger Segment provides the flexibility to define particular information to level of
details required by the user/organization. Technically, it is column divided into further columns,
those further columns are called segments. There can be 30 Segments in General Ledger, each
can have 25 character length, but in actual the length supported by the application is of240
characters.
Thats All :)

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