Groups

A group is a virtual construct that combines the business results of several domestic or international legal entities. Those entities are owned fully or partially by a parent entity in a group and their financial results contribute to the group.

The use of business data from the Groups business object is required in Financial Consolidation. The Groups business object is not used in Budgeting & Planning, Financial Reporting, and Workforce Budgeting.

This table shows the properties of the Groups 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	BP	CO	FR	WB
ID	Unique identifier of a record.	nvarchar		R
Name	Caption that is displayed if no language-specific translation is provided.	nvarchar		R
OrderPosition	Position of an element in the resulting dimension.	integer		U
Currency	A three-character ISO code of group currency. Used to activate group currencies in Business Modeling. Group currency is defined as an entity parameter in Financial Consolidation. Group currency can change over time. Therefore, it must be set for each configuration set, version, and period.	nvarchar		R
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