The Unique Identifier Area

The upper right corner of the screen is almost always the unique identifier of the object being maintained. For example, on the Account Maintenance page in Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing the unique identifier is the Account ID.

To the right of the unique identifier is a Go Look Button. This button is used to search for a different object than the one being displayed in the page.

If the object being maintained has an associated context menu, a Context Menu Button is displayed appear.

Note: User-assigned identifiers versus system-assigned identifiers. Every object in the system must have a unique identifier. Many objects in the system are allocated their unique identifier by the system. However, there are many objects whose unique identifier is defined by a user. The system provides a visual clue to differentiate between these two types of objects via the placement of the unique identifier. If the unique identifier is on the far right, this is a system-assigned identifier; if the unique identifier is on the left, this is a user-assigned identifier.