Understanding ID Generation

ID Generators enable you to define a uniform methodology for generating identifiers across Oracle Financial Services Cloud, along with the capability to define patterns that are specific to requirements of each feature. When you create entities like a User Group or a Company, you can opt to either generate the identifiers automatically, or validate the manually entered identifiers.

While configuring the pattern for ID generation, you can add one or more components that are separated by a delimiter character. The components can be either a Static value or a Sequence of values, but every ID Generator configuration must include a Sequence type of component.

ID Generation Type

ID Generation configuration can be of two types:

• Automatic: When you select automatic ID generation, the system generates the ID automatically, according to the pattern defined in the ID Generator configuration.
• Manual: When you select manual ID generation, the system lets you enter an ID manually, but validates the ID against the pattern defined in the ID Generator configuration.

ID Generation Pattern

ID Generation configuration of an entity defines the pattern in which an ID is generated (or validated against) for that entity. An ID generation pattern is a combination of one or more of these components, with a delimiter character between the components:

• Static: A static value as a component.
• Sequence: A numeric sequence as a component.

Note:

An ID generation pattern must have at least one sequence component.

As identifiers are generated, the static component remains as a part of the ID as it is, while the sequential component increments as per the definition, with the configured delimiter character between the different components within the ID.

Note:

The maximum length of an ID Generation pattern is 18. This includes the configured components and the delimiter characters between the components.