Receivables Subject Areas, Folders, and Attributes

Use the subject areas, folders, and attributes to create real-time analyses of Receivables.

Subject Areas

To create an analysis, you begin by selecting a subject area and then selecting columns of information to include in the analysis. For example, to create an analysis of transaction information, you begin by selecting the Receivables - Transactions Real Time subject area. Subject areas are based around a business object or fact. In this example, the subject area is based on the column in the transactions tables.

Receivables has fourteen specific subject areas:

Receivables - Adjustments Real Time
Receivables - Credit Memo Applications Real Time
Receivables - Credit Memo Requests Real Time
Receivables - Miscellaneous Receipts Real Time
Receivables - Payment Schedules Real Time
Receivables - Receipt Conversion Rate Adjustments Real Time
Receivables - Receipts Details Real Time
Receivables - Revenue Adjustments Real Time
Receivables - Standard Receipts Application Details Real Time
Receivables - Transactions Real Time
Receivables - Bills Receivable Real Time
Receivables - Customer Real Time
Receivables - Customer Tax Profile Real Time
Receivables - Customer Account Site Tax Profile Real Time

Folders

Each subject area has one or more fact folders and a number of dimension folders. Fact folders contain attributes that can be measured, meaning they contain numeric values like transaction line amounts. Fact folders are usually last in the list of folders and are usually named after the subject area. Dimension folders contain attribute and hierarchical columns like customer information.

Some folders appear in more than one subject area, such as Time. 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:

Bill-to Customer has customer attributes.
Transaction Line Details has subfolders and attributes within the subfolders for the various line amounts.

Attributes

Each dimension folder contains attributes (columns), such as customer category and customer codes.

These two figures illustrate the structure of subject areas, folders, and attributes.

This graphic shows the hierarchy of the Receivables - Transactions Real Time subject area, with one first level folder open to reveal two second level folders, and one of the second level folders open to reveal the third level

This graphic shows a detail of some of the second and third levels of the Receivables - Transactions Real Time subject area

These two figures illustrate the following components:

Subject area: Receivables - Transactions Real Time
Dimension - Presentation Folder: Bill-to Customer > Bill-to Customer Classification
Dimension - Attributes: Bill-to Customer Class Category and Bill-to Customer Class Code
Fact - Presentation Folder: Line Amounts
Fact - Measures: Deferred Line values, Line Amount, Transaction Line values