Working with Specialty Node Type Classes

Node types with a specialty node type class have a limited set of capabilities that can be used to store or model data from external systems or to manage users in Users applications.

There are four classes of specialty node types:

• Lookup: Used to store data from an external system that you can point to in a viewpoint by using a node data type property. See Working with Lookup Dimensions.
• Legacy GL: Used to model chart of account values from a legacy general ledger systems in order to support the migration to a cloud general ledger system.
• User: Used to manage users in Users applications only.
• User Rollup: Used to manage rollups in Users applications only.

  Note:

  You cannot use the User or User Rollup node type class in application types other than Users applications.

Considerations

• Nodes with a specialty node type class have a limited set of predefined properties that you cannot change. See the following topics:
  • Predefined Properties for Lookup Node Types
  • Predefined Properties for Legacy GL Node Types
  • Predefined Properties for Users Applications
• Nodes with a specialty node type class are not included in your total record count. See Record Count Log Report.
• All nodes in specialty node type classes have limited integration capabilities at the dimension and viewpoint levels:
  • Lookup and Legacy GL:
    • You can run viewpoint loads.
    • You cannot import, export, or viewpoint download.
    • You can extract from mapping bound viewpoints only (see Understanding Bindings and Bound Data Objects).
  • User and User Rollup:
    • You can run viewpoint loads.
    • You cannot import, export, extract, or viewpoint download.