Color Coding
If you can view this document in color, you will notice that each entity is colored. The color indicates the "subsystem" which governs the entity. Know the governing subsystem is important because:
• The system's menu structure is subsystem-oriented (i.e., if you know the subsystem, you will know how to use the menus to navigate to the page used to view and update the entity).
• The system's documentation is subsystem-oriented (i.e., if you know the subsystem, you will know which chapter contains information about the entity).
Some entities are not color-coded (i.e., they are white). These entities do not have a dedicated page, as they are part of a parent entity. For example, the Person / Account entity above is related to the Account object and does not have its own page. You must display the parent entity in order to view such an entity. For example, if you want to look at Person / Account information, you must go to the Account page.
The following table describes the colors utilized in the documentation:
Color
Subsystem
Customer Information
Admin (Control) Table. These tables are referenced as foreign keys on master and transaction tables. We do not document the names of these tables in this document as the table names are easily accessible using the Table transaction.
N/A - the entity is maintained in respect of a higher level entity.
N/A - the values in these types of entities are defined in a special table referred to as the lookup table. In order to determine the valid values for a column that references a lookup table, use the name of the column as the search value on the Look Up user interface.
Meter Management
Meter Reading
Rates
Billing
Financial Transaction
Payment
Field Order
Adjustment