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 and Workforce Budgeting.
This table shows the properties of the Groups business object and uses these abbreviations:
- BP: Budgeting & Planning
- WB: Workforce Budgeting
- CO: Financial Consolidation
- R: Required
- U: Used but optional
| Field | Description | Type | BP | WB | CO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |