Custom Subject Areas

Oracle Permitting and Licensing Cloud contains prebuilt subject areas, but you can also create your own subject area for your unique reporting needs.

The subject areas that you create is called a custom subject areas.

Concepts and Terminology in Custom Subject Areas

Before creating a custom subject area, you should understand the concepts and terminology used with custom subject areas. These concepts are discussed in their related topics in detail.

• Objects: Objects within Oracle Permitting and Licensing Cloud represent an entity; for example, a contact list. When you create entities such as permit types within Oracle Permitting and Licensings, you create custom objects.

• Fields or attributes: A field, also called an attribute, is where entity information is stored. A contact type is stored in a field under the contact list entity or object.

• Measures: Measures are a set of functions that you can apply on date, numeric, or currency type fields of the selected primary or child objects while defining a custom subject area.

• Date Leveling: Date leveling is a date hierarchy representation between dates and their associated measures. For example, total actual annual gross revenue by month.