1. Administering and Working with Oracle Enterprise Data Management Cloud
  2. Data Management
  3. Working with Viewpoints
  4. Inspecting a Viewpoint
  5. Configuring Related Viewpoints

Configuring Related Viewpoints

Related viewpoints extend the Model After operation by enabling you to create nodes with the same property values and hierarchy relationships as a source node in viewpoints other than the source viewpoint. See Adding a Node by Modeling After an Existing Node.

Related viewpoints are also used in the Equivalent Nodes with Filter validation (for all application types except User) and the Equivalent Nodes validation (for Oracle Financials Cloud General Ledger applications). See Equivalent Nodes Validations and Related Viewpoints.

Considerations

  • Related viewpoints must be in the same view and use the same node type as the viewpoint that you are modeling from. Node type converters are not supported for related viewpoints.
  • If you delete or archive a viewpoint that is a related viewpoint, it is removed from the list of related viewpoints. For archived viewpoints, if you subsequently unarchive the viewpoint it is not automatically added back to the list of related viewpoints. You must add the viewpoint back manually.
  • You cannot configure a time labeled viewpoint as a related viewpoint.

Equivalent Nodes Validations and Related Viewpoints

When you configure related viewpoints, there are two application-specific validations that ensure that nodes in a specified viewpoint also exist in one or more related viewpoints:

  • Equivalent Nodes: This validation is available for Oracle Financials Cloud General Ledger applications only, and it is enabled by default. It ensures that bottom nodes (that is, nodes where the summary flag is set to False) exist in all related viewpoints in at least one location. See Oracle Financials Cloud General Ledger Validations.
  • Equivalent Nodes with Filter: This validation is available for all application types except Users applications, and it is disabled by default. It ensures that all nodes that match a specified filter expression (or all nodes, if there is no filter expression) exist in all related viewpoints in at least one location.

To configure related viewpoints:

  1. Inspect the viewpoint that you want to specify a related viewpoint for.
  2. On the Definition tab, click Edit and then locate the Related Viewpoint section. You may have to scroll down to see the field.
  3. Click in Related Viewpoints to display a list of viewpoints in the same view that use the same node type.
  4. Click a viewpoint to add it to the list of related viewpoints. You can select more than one viewpoint as related viewpoints. Click the X to remove a viewpoint from the list of related viewpoints.
  5. Optional: In Equivalent Nodes Filter, click Edit Expression Edit expression button and enter an expression to specify that nodes in this viewpoint that match the expression filter must exist in all related viewpoints in at least one location. If no expression is entered, then all nodes in the viewpoint must exist in all related viewpoints in at least one location.