Preface

This topic contains the following sub-topics:

• Introduction
  
• Audience
  
• Conventions
  
• List Of Topics
  
• Related Documents
  
• Symbols, Definitions and Abbreviations
  

Introduction

This manual is intended as a guide to help you define User Defined Fields (UDFs) and associate the UDFs with products (and therefore on contracts involving the products) and on specific Functions in Oracle Lending. You can further obtain information specific to a particular field by placing the cursor on the relevant field and pressing <F1> on the keyboard.

Audience

This manual is intended for the following User/User Roles

Table -1 Audience

Role	Function
Back office clerk	Input functions for contracts
Back office managers/officers	Authorization functions
Product Managers	Product definition and authorization
End of day operators	Processing during end of day/ beginning of day
Financial Controller / Product Managers	Generation of reports

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document:

Table -2 Conventions and Meaning

Convention	Meaning
boldface	Boldface type indicates graphical user interface elements associated with an action, or terms defined in text or the glossary.
italic	Italic type indicates book titles, emphasis, or placeholder variables for which you supply particular values.
monospace	Monospace type indicates commands within a paragraph, URLs, code in examples, text that appears on the screen, or text that you enter.

List Of Topics

This manual is organized into the following topics.

Table -3 List Of Topics

Topics	Description and Cross References
Preface	This topic provides the general information about the manual. It also list the various topics covered in the User Manual.
Creating Custom Fields in Oracle Lending	This topic explains how to define and use UDFs. It details the procedure involved in defining UDFs and associating them with Products, so that the UDF is associated with contracts associated with all contracts involving the product. It also explains how to define UDFs and associating them with specific functions in Oracle Lending. The topics which are part of Creating Custom Fields in Oracle Lending are: User Defined Fields Maintenance Screen Scope of the Field Numeric Field Text Field Date Field Making a Field Applicable to a Product Creating UDF and linking to a Function ID Populating the Values of UDF Uploading User Defined Fields
Glossary	Function ID Glossary has alphabetical listing of Function/Screen ID's used in the module with section references for quick navigation.

Related Documents

For further information on procedures discussed in the manual, refer to the following manuals on:

• Core Entities and Services User Guide
• Common Procedures
• Products

Symbols, Definitions and Abbreviations

The following are some of the Symbols you are likely to find in the manual:

Table -4 Symbols

Icons	Functions
	Exit
	Add row
	Delete row
	Option List

The images used in the documentation are of illustration purpose and need to be used only for reference.

For more information, refer to Accessibility User Manual.