1. Real Estate Management Implementation Guide
  2. Understanding Area Validation

Understanding Area Validation

To validate the area of the floors against the area of the building, you must:

  • Enter FLOR in the Area Grouping Unit field.

  • Set the Area Validation (Floor to Building) processing option to validate the area of the floors that you set up against the area of the building.

    The system uses the date range that you specify in the Begin Date and End Date fields to validate the rentable and usable areas that are set up for all of the floors in a building or for all of the units on a floor.

  • Define area types in the Real Estate Management Constants program (P1510).

    You must define area types for rentable and usable areas and specify whether the system validates these area types against the values you enter; the other three alternate areas are optional.

  • Set up the area master entries for the building, floors, and units, that correspond to the area types you specified in the Real Estate Management Constants program (P1510).

Note: When you add floors to UDC table 15/FL, the code must be four characters in length and left-justified. For example, if you add floor 10, you must enter the value with two leading spaces or zeros.

If the area of the floor changes and the total area of the building is exceeded, the system generates an error. Similarly, if the total area of a floor is less than the total area of the units on the floor, the system generates an error. To locate the error, review the information for the building, floors, and units on the respective forms. You must correct errors on the building level before you can make changes to the floor, and you must correct errors at the floor level before you can make changes to the units.