Calulated Fields Flashcards
What can you do with calculated fields? (9)
Math calculations
date calculations and formatting
text concatenation, substring, and formatting functions
Currency conversion
Derive range bands from numeric or currency fields
Determine if conditions are true or not
Drill down and lookup levels and values in hierarchy and orgs
Lookup data in related objects
Sum, count and aggregate info across related instances
Where can you use calculated fields?
Reports (new fields, prompts or filters, accessing data from PBO)
Business processes (controlling condition step, )
Integration (used with connectors and in reports that use data for documents transformations or EIB)
Scheduling recurring processes (dynamic runtime parameters)
And other areas
Authorize usage area should be overridden for all areas?
No, should remain as default. Actual areas should only be added when necessary
Who can see calculated fields?
Users with access to the domains that the calculated field is built off of.
Where can calculated fields not be used?
A) reports
B) business process condition rule
C) integrations
D) security configuration
Security configurations
What can you use the maintain calculated fields report to do?
A) create or edit a calculated field
B) share a calculated field with another worker
C) view standard fields in your system
D) view who created a calculated field
Create or edit a calculated field
Being authorized for the custom field management domain allows you to edit, create, and delete which kinds of calculated fields?
A) system wide
B) report specific
System wide
What is substring text function?
Allows you to extract a specific portion of text within a field based on fixed positions or delimiters. You can search a string forward or backwards
What are the steps to create a Substring text calculated field?
- Run the create calculated field task
- Enter information information in the following fields
Field Name, Business Object , function: substring text. Ok
Text field: the name of field to use
Substring Type: , delimiter, direction
Category
Which calculated field function computes a date that is specified number of days, months, or years before or after a date field?
A) format date
B) increment or decrement date
C) date difference
B) increment or decrement date
What field type does date difference calculated field return?
A) Numeric
B) date
Numeric
Which calculated field function would allow you to create a field that captures four digits of an employee’s social security number? A) format date B) substring text C) format text D) extract single instance
substring text
What does the evaluate function do?
Groups and transforms data, it evaluates a series of conditions and returns a value associated with the first met condition.
How to create an evaluate expression?
Create text constants calculated fields if necessary
Create a true false condition
Create an evaluate expression
Which calculated field function would you use to evaluate and categorize the number of days off that an employee has taken over the past year? A) evaluate expression B) true/false condition C) lookup range band D) lookup related value
lookup range band