Segments 1-3
The Segments 1-3 business objects refer to three custom structures to reflect, for example, business areas, regions, or products of a business. Their use is optional and depends on a specific business use case.
The use of segments is mainly driven by Infor EPM Financial Consolidation and is based on legal requirements. Typically, one reason you might use segments is if there is a legal requirement that, for example, the financial statements of an entity must report the main segments that drive the business. For example, if the revenue of a company in Asia contains 90% of the total revenue of the entity, this value must be reported in compliance with the logic of consolidation. Because business structures of entities or groups vary from customer to customer, many segments can be reported.
The use of business data from the Segments 1-3 business objects is optional in Budgeting & Planning, Financial Consolidation, and Workforce Budgeting. In Financial Reporting, you can map data from the Segment 1-3 integration table as a custom business object in the Business Objects Configuration integration table.
This table shows the properties of the Segments 1-3 business objects 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 | R | R | R |
| Name | Caption that is displayed if no language-specific translation is provided. | nvarchar | R | R | R | R |
| ParentID | Parent ID. If left blank, then Parent ID is by default assigned to the top-level All Segments[n] (TOTAL_SEGEMENT) value. Note: A record can be assigned to multiple parents.
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nvarchar | U | U | U | U |
| Weight | Used to control the roll-up into parents. Typically set to 1. |
float | U | U | U | U |
| OrderPosition | Position of an element in the resulting dimension. | integer | U | U | U | |
| LangEN | Name translated into English. | nvarchar | U | U | U | |
| LangDE | Name translated into German. | nvarchar | U | U | U | |
| LangFR | Name translated into French. | nvarchar | U | U | U | |
| LangES | Name translated into Spanish. | nvarchar | U | U | U | |
| LangJA | Name translated into Japanese. | nvarchar | U | U | U | |
| LangPT_BR | Name translated into Portuguese (Brazilian). | nvarchar | U | U | U | |
| LangRU | Name translated into Russian. | nvarchar | U | U | U | |
| LangIT | Name translated into Italian. | nvarchar | U | U | U | |
| LangZH_CHS | Name translated into Chinese (Simplified). | nvarchar | U | U | U | |
| LangCS | Name translated into Czech. | nvarchar | U | U | U | |
| LangNL | Name translated into Dutch. | nvarchar | U | U | U | |
| LangDA | Name translated into Danish. | nvarchar | U | U | U | |
| LangSV | Name translated into Swedish. | nvarchar | U | U | U | |
| LangNO | Name translated into Norwegian. | nvarchar | U | U | U | |
| LangPL | Name translated into Polish. | nvarchar | U | U | U | |
| LangTH | Name translated into Thai. | nvarchar | U | U | U | |
| LangFI | Name translated into Finnish. | nvarchar | U | U | U | |
| LangKO | Name translated into Korean. | nvarchar | U | U | U | |
| LangMS | Name translated into Malaysian. | nvarchar | U | U | U | |
| LangFR_CA | Name translated into French (Canadian). | nvarchar | U | U | U | |
| LangZH_TW | Name translated into Chinese (Traditional). | nvarchar | U | U | U | |
| LangID | Name translated into Indonesian. | nvarchar | U | U | U | |
| LangVI | Name translated into Vietnamese. | nvarchar | U | U | U |