1. Using Assets
  2. Assets Subject Areas, Folders, and Attributes

Assets Subject Areas, Folders, and Attributes

To create real-time analyses for Oracle Assets, you should be familiar with subject areas, folders, and attributes.

Subject Areas

To create an analysis, you begin by selecting a subject area from which you select columns of information to include in the analysis.

For example, to create an analysis of asset balances information, you begin by selecting a Fixed Assets - Asset Balances Real Time subject area.

Subject areas are based around a business object or fact. Assets has eight subject areas:

  • Fixed Assets - Asset Depreciation Real Time

  • Fixed Assets - Asset Transactions Real Time

  • Fixed Assets - Asset Balances Real Time

Folders

Each subject area has one fact folder and a number of dimension folders.

  • Fact folders contain attributes that can be measured, meaning that they're numeric values like assignment units. Fact folders are usually named after the subject area.

  • Dimension folders contain attribute and hierarchical columns like the last period depreciated and the asset fiscal year name.

Some folders appear in more than one subject area, such as Asset Books. These are referred to as common folders or common dimensions.

Each folder within a subject area may have a different level of granularity. For example:

  • Asset Balance has period-end balance attributes.

  • Asset Book has subfolders and attributes within the subfolders.

Attributes

Finally, each dimension folder contains attributes (columns), such as book class and current fiscal year. This figure illustrates the structure of subject areas, folders, and attributes. The graphic shows the Fixed Assets - Asset Balances Real Time subject area, folders, and attributes.

This figure lists the Assets subject areas.

The figure shows the following components:

  • Subject area: Fixed Assets - Asset Balances Real Time

  • Dimension - Presentation Folder: Asset Book

  • Dimension - Attributes: Asset Book, Book Class, Depreciation Calendar and Current Fiscal Year

  • Fact - Presentation Folder: Asset Balances

  • Fact - Measures: Current Cost, Net Book Value, and Accumulated Depreciation Amount

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