Add a Legal Reporting Unit Segment to Locations

You can add a new descriptive flexfield segment to locations to store the legal reporting unit associated with the location.

1. Add a new descriptive flexfield segment:
   1. From the Setup and Maintenance work area, navigate to the Manage Descriptive Flexfields task.
   2. Search for the Locations flexfield.
   3. Select the record and click Edit.
   4. In the Global Segments region, click Create.
   5. In the Create Segment page, in the Name field, enter LRU.
   6. Leave the Code and API Name fields with the default values.
   7. In the Column Assignment region, for the Data Type field, select Character.
   8. In the Table Column field, select ATTRIBUTE2.
   9. In the Validation region, for Value Set field, select ORA_FA_LEGAL_REPORTING_UNITS.
   10. In the Display Properties region, leave the Prompt field with the default value.
   11. In the Display Type field, select List of Values.
   12. Select the Enabled check box.
   13. Click Save and Close.
   14. In the Manage Descriptive Flexfields page, click the Deploy Flexfield button and ensure that the deployment completes successfully.
       To identify which descriptive flexfield segment represents a legal reporting unit, add a lookup code to the Legal Reporting Unit Asset Location Descriptive Segment lookup type.
2. Add a lookup code:
   1. From the Setup and Maintenance work area, navigate to the Manage Fixed Assets Lookups task.
   2. Search for the lookup type ORA_FA_LRU_LOC_DFF_SEGMENT.
   3. In the Financials Generic Lookup Type region, click Create.
   4. In the Lookup Code field, enter Attribute2.
   5. In the Reference Data Set field, select the reference data set of the lookup code. Click Enabled.
   6. Enter the start date of the record.
   7. Enter the meaning as Attribute2, which is the same column assigned to the descriptive flexfield segment added to locations.
   8. Click Save and Close.