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“Oracle Flexfield Interview Questions and Answers will guide us now that Flexfield in Oracle is a database field that has flexibility built into it so that users can define reporting structures that are relevant to their specific organizations. Two types of flexfields are provided. Key flexfields and descriptive flexfields, which are user-defined. So learn Oracle Flexfield with the help of this Flexfield Interview Questions with Answers guide”



20 Flexfield Questions And Answers

1⟩ What is the significance of structure id in key flexfields?

A Key-Flexfield may be associated with single or multiple structures. This is specified when creating a new flexfield.

This can be clearly understood when defining a new key flex field. Note that All the fields expect description and Structure column are optional.

If you want to enable a multi-structured flex-field you need to assciate the corresponding back-end column

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5⟩ What is the use of Group Flex field and where exactly we use?

Group Flexfield is Used in Oracle Payroll. This Group Flexfield catches the information to which the employee belongs. eg : Regular then the employee belongs to Regular payroll Group.

Based on our requirements we categorize the employees in to groups for easy identification purpose.

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7⟩ How many flexfields are there in total modules?

There are Two types of flexfielld they are

1. Descriptve flexfield(which is optional)

2. keyflexfield

IN keyflex thereare 33 key flexfilds which are used in varios modules of oracle application package.

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9⟩ What is the purpose of a flexfield qualifier? Why is it needed when you can have a unique name for a segment?

Flexfield qualifiers are basically used to identify the nature of the segment at the flexfield level. Qualifiers like Balancing,Cost Center, InterEntity,Natural Account etc..indicates the type of segment.

For Ex--> Normally company segment is qualified as Balancing, which will intimate that the debits should balance the credits for a particular account for a specified company. i.e for a specific GL code combinations.

Hence having unique names to the segments/flexfield has no connection with this as the purpose of the above is totally different.

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10⟩ Can we disable/enable a whole DFF not few Attributes?

Yes this can be done with Custom.pll It has a procedure call Event.In this procedure you can capture events like when-new-form-instance,when-new-item-instance etc So capture tht event on which you want to disable your DFF and use name_in('system.current_form/item') to know the name of your DFF and then using form built-in set_item_property disable that field. Same way we can do enable the DFF.

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12⟩ What is the difference between flexfield qualifier and segment qualifier?

Flexfiled qualifier identifies segement in a flexfield and segment qualifier identifies value in a segment.

There are four types of flexfiled qualifier 1) Balancing segment qualifier 2) cost center 3) natural account and 4) intercompnay.

segemtn qualifier :-

1) allow budgeting

2) allow posting

3) account type

4) contral account and

5) reconciliation flag

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14⟩ What is concurrent prg?

Concurrent Program is nothing but an instance of execution file along with parameters and incompatable.

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19⟩ What is the difference between key flexfield and Descriptive flexfield?

Key Flexfield is used to describe unique identifiers that will have a better meaning than using number IDs. e.g a part number, a cost centre etc.

Desc Flex is used to just capture extra information.

Key Flexfields have qualifiers whereas Desc Flexfields do not.

Desc Flexfields can have context sensitive segments while Key flexfields cannot.

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