E-Business Suite General Ledger Validations

Validations enforce data integrity. The following validations run for Oracle E-Business Suite General Ledger applications.

In addition to these E-Business Suite General Ledger validations, system and generic validations are run on nodes, hierarchies, viewpoints, and properties in the application. See System Validations and Generic Validations.

Note:

For validations with a scope of Viewpoint in the table below, for hierarchy-set bound viewpoints the validation is run for the bound viewpoint.
Validation Name Description Scope Level
Maximum Length Node Name Text/Numeric Node name exceeds the Maximum Character Length Node Value or Node
Node Start/End Date The Start Date property is greater than the End Date property for a node in a value set. Node Property
Parent Summary Flag The parent node must have the summary flag set to allow children. Node Tree or hierarchy set
Summary Flag and Allow Posting Summary and Allow Posting properties are both enabled. Only one can be enabled at a time.

If a node has children, Summary must be enabled.

If Allow Posting is enabled, the node cannot have children.

Node Property
Summary Node with Missing Children A node with Summary Flag enabled must have children. Node Tree or Hierarchy Set
Uppercase Node Name Name contains lowercase characters and Uppercase is selected. Node Value or Node

Invalid Characters, First Characters, and Values for E-Business Suite General Ledger

When you register a E-Business Suite General Ledger application, validations for invalid characters, first characters, and values are automatically configured for the Core.Name property.

You can edit these values by editing the property parameters. See Editing Property Parameters.