To Enable DFF

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Overview of Flexfields:

A flexfield is a field made up of sub±fields, 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 l ike 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 single±character, 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:

y Descriptive Flexfield Segments:

Descriptive flexfields have two different types of segments, global and context±sensitive.

A global segment is a segment that always appears in the descriptive flexfield pop±up window.

A context±sensitive 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 (acontext field ) inside the descriptive flexfield pop±up 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.

y H ow and where are the segment information is stored:

A descriptive flexfield uses columns that are added on to a database table. A descriptive flexfield requires

one column for each possible segment and one additional column in which 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.

Example of enabling DFF:

Goal: Enable DFF in Sales Order form in Order Management

Navigation: Go to ³Order management super User, VisionOperations´ responsibility

Orders, Returns >> Sales Orders



Enable the DFF at right bottom screen.

To know the name of the DFF in a particular form do the following

Navigation: Help Menu >> Diagnostics >> Examine

Select Block Name as $DESCRIPTIVE_FLEXFIELD$

Field as ORDER.DF

Value will be populated and it will be the title of your DFF.



Title: Additional Header Information (Order Management)

Order management in the brackets represent the Application in which this DFF is registered.

To enable this

Navigation: Go to Application Developer >> Flexfield >> Descriptive >> Segments



Query the DFF

Press F11 and enter



Title: Additional Header Information

Application: Order Management



Press CTL + F11 to query the record

Click on Segments



Enter the following information

Number: 5

Name: Erp Schools Demo

Window Prompt: Erp Schools Demo

Column: ATTRIBUTE11

Save the record (CTL + S)



Press OK

You can assign any value set if you want, its optional so I am just leaving it as blank

Now check the³Freeze Flexfield

Definition´ Checkbox



Press OK

Now Click Compile button



Press OK



You will see the confirmation as shown above.

Now to go to Order management super User, Vision Operations´and open the Sales order Form and

click on DFF box.



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 ³Freeze FlexfieldDefinition´ Checkbox



Press OK

Now uncheck the Displayed Box in Context Field area as shown



Save your Record



Check the ³Freeze Flexfield Definition´ Checkbox

Press OK

Press Compile Button



Press OK



³Flexfield 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



Now you should be able to hide the Context.

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