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Provide Additional Values

You may need additional values for EDI transactions not covered by the Oracle Applications data model.

Descriptive Flexfields

Use the descriptive flexfields feature of Oracle Applications to supply any additional information necessary to complete your EDI transactions.

Descriptive flexfields provide a flexible way of adding implementation-specific data elements to the Applications data model without programming. These data elements are then stored in the ATTRIBUTE* columns in the applications tables. These ATTRIBUTE* columns are included in the EDI Gateway interface tables for outbound transactions and the application open interface tables for inbound transactions.

The ECE_TP_HEADERS and ECE_TP_DETAILS tables have additional ATTRIBUTE* columns also. This allows you to store additional information for each trading partner that can then be placed in the inbound or outbound data files.

Extensible EDI Gateway Architecture

If descriptive flexfields do not provide you with sufficient flexibility, you can utilize the extensible architecture of Oracle EDI Gateway to accommodate additional data needs.

See Also

Extensible EDI Gateway Architecture

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