Perspective

With perspectives, hierarchies are assembled in meaningful combinations and serve as virtual views and cubes in the API and to the user. The Perspective integration table is used only by Financial Reporting.

This table shows the properties of the Perspective business object and uses these abbreviations:

BP: Budgeting & Planning
CO: Financial Consolidation
FR: Financial Reporting
WB: Workforce Budgeting
R: Required
U: Used but optional


Field	Description	Type	FR
ID	Unique identifier of a record.	nvarchar	R
Name	Caption that is displayed if no language-specific translation is provided.	nvarchar	R
Description	Description of the perspective.	nvarchar	U
LangEN	Name translated into English.	nvarchar	U
LangDE	Name translated into German.	nvarchar	U
LangFR	Name translated into French.	nvarchar	U
LangES	Name translated into Spanish.	nvarchar	U
LangJA	Name translated into Japanese.	nvarchar	U
LangPT_BR	Name translated into Portuguese (Brazilian).	nvarchar	U
LangRU	Name translated into Russian.	nvarchar	U
LangIT	Name translated into Italian.	nvarchar	U
LangZH_CHS	Name translated into Chinese (Simplified).	nvarchar	U
LangCS	Name translated into Czech.	nvarchar	U
LangNL	Name translated into Dutch.	nvarchar	U
LangDA	Name translated into Danish.	nvarchar	U
LangSV	Name translated into Swedish.	nvarchar	U
LangNO	Name translated into Norwegian.	nvarchar	U
LangPL	Name translated into Polish.	nvarchar	U
LangTH	Name translated into Thai.	nvarchar	U
LangFI	Name translated into Finnish.	nvarchar	U
LangKO	Name translated into Korean.	nvarchar	U
LangMS	Name translated into Malaysian.	nvarchar	U
LangFR_CA	Name translated into French (Canadian).	nvarchar	U
LangZH_TW	Name translated into Chinese (Traditional).	nvarchar	U
LangID	Name translated into Indonesian.	nvarchar	U
LangVI	Name translated into Vietnamese.	nvarchar	U