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FDIC

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (U.S. only).

fact table

A table in a dimensional schema that contains measures and has foreign-key relationships with dimension tables.

Fairness constraints

Rules governing the equitable distribution of workload in a service organization.

Favorites drop-down list

See Queries drop-down list.

featured catalog

A catalog that is given special treatment to call attention to it, such as new and sale catalogs.

featured item

An item that is given special treatment to call attention to it, such as new and sale items.

fee-per-use

Charging a customer for the use of a product according to how much the customer uses it.

field, calculated

A field whose value is derived from the values of other fields by a formula. You do not enter data into a calculated field; the system automatically determines the correct value.

Field service activity

A record in Siebel Field Service that maintains information about activities performed by field service engineers or repair technicians. This is an extension of Siebel Activity, with Field Service customizations that specifically meet the requirements of engineers reporting complex, standardized service activities, including work done in response to a service request, assignment and scheduling of field activities, and tracking of tools and parts.

Field service engineer (FSE)

An employee trained to respond to a customer's request for on-site service and repairs.

file attachment

An external document that a user can bring into a Siebel application, open, and edit. It can also be transferred between a local database and the server during synchronization.

firms

Organizations.

flexible group routing

A feature that routes data based on subsets of routing rules, known as a routing model.

forward auction

See English auction.

fragmented table source

A logical table source with one or more physical tables that makes up a portion of the data at a given level of aggregation.

Frequency

See count frequency.

Fulfillment

The process of selecting and allocating inventory to satisfy an order. The Fulfillment Engine locates inventory items or substitute items, allocates these items, and generates pick tickets. The Fulfillment Engine generates an inventory transaction for a specified product, quantity, source, and status, based on the priority of the order and the relationships defined for the account selected or order terms specified.

function

A procedure that returns a value. In Basic, the return value is specified by assigning a value to the name of the function, as if the function were a variable.

functional dependency

In a dimensional hierarchy, nonkey columns are said to have a functional dependency on a key column because each key value always corresponds to the same nonkey values. This fact allows precomputed aggregates to be used to answer a much broader set of queries.


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 Published: 22 April 2003