Many Nature of Action Codes (NOACs), Remarks, and Legal Authorities include descriptions.

Descriptions may contain:

• No insertion data

• A combination of text and insertion data

• Only insertion data

If your agency adds agency-specific descriptions that contain insertion data, you can capture that data. The product includes descriptive flexfields for NOAC, Remark, and Legal Authority descriptions. These flexfields have five context-sensitive segments for insertion values that correspond to the underscores in the descriptions.

Underscores represent insertion data only. Make sure that your Remarks, Legal Authority Codes, or NOACs do not contain underscores unless they have corresponding insertion segments. The application does not validate the number of segments for a specific description in the Descriptive Flexfield Segments window with the number of underscore segments in the Maintenance forms. The application does not datetrack insertion values. When the application updates the database, it only updates insertion values associated with NTE (Not to Exceed) NOACs. Upon update, the application does remove the underscore characters.

   To add insertion values:

1. Add your Remark, or Legal Authority Code to the appropriate form.

   See:Maintenance Forms

2. As an Application Developer, you set up segments for the descriptions in the Descriptive Flexfield Segments window. Each group of underscores in the description should have a corresponding segment defined to store its data.

   The flexfield uses the code as context to determine what segments are displayed in the pop-up window and the value sets (if any) to be used for each segment.

3. Each description has 5 segments that you can define. The number of characters associated with each segment are as follows:

   • Remarks: 2000 characters for the first segment; 150 characters for the remaining segments.

   • NOACS and LACS: 240 characters for the first segment; 150 characters for the remaining segments.

4. Repeat the segment definition for NOACs twice (to accommodate dual actions). Repeat the definition four times for Legal Authority Codes.

   For example, the Legal Authority Code LAC A2M has a description CS Cert No. ____ WTO. Because each NOAC has two possible supporting Legal Authority Codes for each action, you need to enter the Legal Authority Code in all four flexfields.

5. Follow the steps for freezing and compiling the flexfield segments as described in the Oracle Applications Flexfields Guide.