Configure Flexfield Segments

Your company can use descriptive flexfields to store details unique to its requirements. One flexfield applies to each object; you define "segments" of each object's flexfield to capture discrete values.

In Oracle Fusion Cloud Financial Reporting Compliance, flexfields are available for the Process, Risk, Analysis, Evaluation, Treatment Plan, Event, Consequence, Control, Issue, Remediation Plan, and Assessment objects. In Oracle Fusion Cloud Advanced Controls, flexfields are available to the Control and Incident Result objects.

For each object's flexfield, you can create up to 40 text-string segments, 20 numeric segments, and 10 date segments, for a total of 70 segments. Each segment accepts a piece of information you want to record about an object. Segments appear as fields in an Additional Information panel of the pages to view, create, or edit objects.

You can create global or context segments. Broadly, a global segment is a piece of information that becomes part of an object record under any circumstance. A context segment is a piece of information that applies only under circumstances you define as you configure the flexfield.

To configure segments, use the Manage Descriptive Flexfields task in Oracle Fusion Functional Setup Manager. In its Module search field, search for the value "Risks and Controls Top." From the resulting list of flexfields, select one, and select Actions > Edit to open a page in which you can add, edit, or remove segments.

For detailed information on configuring flexfield segments, see the Flexfields chapter of Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications: Configuring and Extending Applications. But note: Although there are three types of flexfield, you can use only one of them, descriptive. As you read about how to configure flexfields, ignore information about two other types, key and extensive.