Overview of Business Objects

Transaction model filters cite business objects and attributes of those objects, which supply data for analysis. There are several types of business object.

• Oracle provides "delivered" business objects. Each is a set of related data fields from a business application, and each field is an attribute of the object.
• You can supplement these with imported objects (data imported from an xml file), user-defined objects (data returned by a specially configured advanced control), and system-generated objects (data returned by certain transaction filters).

Generally, you have access to delivered, imported, and user-defined objects only if they're assigned to you. An administrator uses a Business Object Security feature, available in the Risk Management Data Security work area, to assign objects you can use. Exceptions: You automatically have access to objects you import and to user-defined objects generated by controls you deploy. Also, object security doesn't apply to system-generated objects because each is necessarily specific to the model or control that defines it.

Business objects may be related to other business objects, and an understanding of those relationships can help you to select objects as you create or edit models. In a Business Object Visualizer, you can generate graphic representations of the relationships between objects.