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Overview of Flexfields:
A flexfield is a field made up of subfields, or segments. There are two types of flexfields:
key flexfields and descriptive flexfields.
Key Flexfields:
A Key flexfield is a field made up of segments, where each segment has both a value and a
meaning, which appears on your form as a normal text field with an appropriate prompt.
One example of a key flexfield is the Accounting Flexfield. This flexfield can always be
customized to have as many segments as needed like Company, Department, Cost center,
Account etc.
Descriptive flexfields:
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.
A descriptive flexfield appears on a form as a singlecharacter, unnamed field enclosed in
Square Brackets [ ]. Each field or segment in a descriptive flexfield has a prompt and can
have a set of valid values
Descriptive Flexfield Concepts:
Descriptive flexfields have two different types of segments, global and contextsensitive.
Global
A global segment is a segment that always appears in the descriptive flexfield popup
window.
Context-sensitive
A contextsensitive segment is a segment that may or may not appear depending upon
what other information is present in your form.
A descriptive flexfield can get context information from either a field somewhere on the
form, or from a special field (a context field) inside the descriptive flexfield popup window.
If the descriptive flexfield derives the context information from a form field (either displayed
or hidden from users), that field is called a reference field for the descriptive flexfield.
to store structure information (that is, the context value). The descriptive flexfield columns
are usually named ATTRIBUTEn where n is a number.
For example, if you have a descriptive flexfield on an Order Entry (Header) form, it
populates the Structure column with the context field and the columns ATTRIBUTEn with the
flexfield segments of the table OE_ORDER_HEADERS_ALL.
To enable this
Navigation: Go to Application Developer >> Flexfield >> Descriptive >> Segments
Click on Segments
Number: 5
Column: ATTRIBUTE11
Press OK
You can assign any value set if you want; its optional so I am just leaving it as blank
Press OK
Now Click Compile button
Press OK
You can hide the context field by un checking the Displayed Check Box in Context
Field
To Make any changes you have to uncheck the Freeze Flexfield Definition
Checkbox
Press OK
Now uncheck the Displayed Box in Context Field area as shown
Press OK
Press Compile Button
Press OK
Flexfield View Generator concurrent program will be submitted. To see the status
of the program go to View Menu on top >> Requests >> Find
Once you see the status as completed you can go to Order Management and check
for your changes