1. Using Maintenance
  2. How You Manage Maintenance Work Definition Flexfields

How You Manage Maintenance Work Definition Flexfields

Your Maintenance Work Definition and its child objects are enabled for flexfields, so you can manage additional details of a work definition. Flexfields are defined during the implementation of Oracle Fusion Cloud Maintenance, but can be further defined once deployed and work definitions are created.

The Work Definition Operation objects are shared by Oracle Manufacturing and Maintenance. Therefore, any flexfields that are defined are visible in both applications. This includes defining flexfields for:

  • Work definition names

  • Work definition operations

  • Work definition operation outputs

  • Work definition operation materials

  • Work definition operation resources

For these, these are the numbers of additional attribute fields available:

  • Character: 20

  • Number: 10

  • Date: 10

  • Date and Time: 10

You can manage the flexfields in the Additional Information show/hide region of the Edit Work Definition page and its child object regions. You can view and edit the field values, including conditional fields guided by a context segment. You can also define, view and update the flexfields using the Maintenance Work Definition REST API and File-Based Data Import.

For additional details about flexfields, refer to the Configuring and Extending Applications guide of Oracle Applications Cloud.

Note: When you define flexfields, you can enable them for Business Intelligence. When creating a flexfield segment, select the BI Enabled check box under the Business Intelligence section. When a flexfield is deployed, run the Import Oracle Fusion Data Extensions for Transactional Business Intelligence scheduled process while selecting the CRM parameter check box. This will import the flexfields into Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI).
Note: The flexfield capability to default a segment value during object creation isn't supported for work orders created by a maintenance program forecast or using the maintenance work order file-based import. When using the import, flexfield segment values must be passed in the upload file and will not consider any defaulting rules.