Flexfields

A flexfield is a field made up of sub-fields, segment or attributes. There are two types of flexfields: key flexfields and descriptive flexfields

Key Flexfields:-

KFF's are used to captues the mandatory info about the organization or an employee

There are around twelve KFFs in Oracle HRMS; out of which six are mandatory for a successful Core-HR implementation. The mandatory KFFs are:

• Job
• Position
• Grade
• People Group
• Cost Allocation
• Competency

Apart from the mandatory ones, there are a few optional KFFs present in the Oracle HRMS. Like:

• Personal Analysis
• Collectively Agreed Grades Flex field
• Soft Coded Key Flex field
• Bank Details Key Flex Field
• Training Resources
• Item Contexts Flex Field. 

Naviagation to create flex fields

System Administrator >> Application >> Flex Field >> Key >> Segments

Descriptive Flexfieds:-

                      DFF's are used to capture the additional information about the org or an employee. 

Types of DFF

• Additional job Details
• Additional Position Details
• Additional Personal Details
• Additional Assignment Details
• Additional Application Details and Many More.....            

Difference Between KFF and DFF

Key Flexfield	Descriptive Flexfield
A Key Flexfield as the name suggest is a key building block of a module and is required for defining the structure of objects of that module e.g. The Account Structure, Item Structure etc.	A descriptive Flexfield as the name suggests helps more in describing an object (like a transaction or screen) more than the available fields on that screen
Key Flexfield captures mandatory business information like company department, account etc.	Descriptive Flexfield captures additional business information like name of the company’s MD etc.
KFF is Mandatory	DFF is optional
KFF displays like text item	DFF displays like []
KFF’s data are stored in the segments	DFF’s data are stored in the attributes
30 segment columns are reserved for KFF’s data	15 attribute columns are reserved for the DFF’s data.