Overview of Flexfield Use in Analyses

Flexfields are extensible sets of placeholder fields associated with business objects that can be placed on application pages. They're used to extend business objects and meet your data management requirements without changing the data model or performing any database programming.

To include flexfields you have used for extension for use in analyses, you must enable them for business intelligence.

Extension of analyses using flexfields is available for Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning Cloud and Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud.

Flexfield Types

The following types of flexfields are available and provide a means to modify application features without programming:

• Descriptive

• Extensible

• Key

Depending on the flexfield type, business intelligence enablement is performed differently and has different requirements. Once they are enabled for business intelligence, you can import any changes made to flexfields automatically using an import scheduled process.