Use Descriptive Flexfields to Add Additional Joint Venture Information

Set up descriptive flexfields to add additional fields beyond what is provided in the Oracle Joint Venture Management work areas.

You can set up descriptive flexfields for the following work areas:

• Joint Ventures

• Stakeholders

For each work area, you can set up a maximum of 20 descriptive flexfields: 10 fields for characters; 5 fields for numbers; and 5 fields for dates.

A descriptive flexfield consists of one or more segments. A segment represents a field that’s mapped to a table column in your database. Setting up a descriptive flexfield involves defining the appearance and behavior of individual segments.

Descriptive flexfields include the following two segment types that you can choose from:

• Global segment: Use this segment to set up descriptive flexfields that are always available as fields in a work area.

  For example, you can set up a global segment to add a Legal Description field that appears for each joint venture in the Joint Ventures work area.

• Context segment: Use this segment to set up descriptive flexfields that appear in a work area only under a certain context.

  For example, you can set up a context segment to add a Project Type drop-down list in the Joint Ventures work area that contains these values: Construction and Healthcare. You then configure context-sensitive segments that display as fields based on the value you select in the list.

For more information on descriptive flexfields, see Overview of Descriptive Flexfields.

Joint venture application administrators can configure descriptive flexfields.