Defining How Calendars Roll Up

Table 72. Calendar Roll Up

Base Time Period

Roll Up

12 Months

Four quarters are created per year. Months roll up into parent quarters and quarters roll up into years.

Quarters

Quarters roll up into years.

Custom

No default rollup structures. A flat list of the custom base time periods displays.

After the application calendar is created, you cannot change the base time period or reduce the number of years in the calendar. Administrators can change the names, descriptions, aliases, and ranges of the summary time periods in the hierarchy.

You can have up to 100 calendar years and 500 time periods in an application. Actual limits are a function of calendar years and time periods. How many time periods and years you can set also depends on whether your application uses multiple currencies. Oracle recommends these practical limits for an application:.