Accounting › Profitability
Profitability Characteristics
What you may cut by. A characteristic that has to be typed is one that is blank on eighty per cent of the rows, which is why each names where it is read from.
Where to find it
- Module: Accounting
- Group: Projects & Margin
- Section: Profitability
- Screen: Profitability Characteristics
Address in the console: /accounting/pa-characteristics
List · 8 columns · 11 fields on its form · 2 of them required
What the list shows
These are the columns of the list, in the order they are drawn. Any of them can be sorted on, filtered on, hidden, or exported.
| Column | Kind | Field name |
|---|---|---|
| Order | Number | sort_order |
| Code | Code | code |
| Name | Text | name |
| Data type | Status | data_type |
| Read from | Status | source_type |
| Field | Code | source_field |
| Dimension | Yes or no | is_dimension |
| Active | Yes or no | is_active |
The form
What is asked for when a record is created here. Required fields are marked; a choice drawn from a configuration list is one an administrator can extend without a release.
| Field | Type | Choices | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Code required | Text | ||
| Name required | Text | ||
| Data type | Choice | text, number, date, reference | |
| Read from | Choice | manual, customer, item, order, employee, organization, cost_center, profit_center, project, derived | |
| Source field | Text | ||
| Reference table | Text | ||
| May be used on rows | Yes or no | A characteristic with ten thousand values is a detail field, not a dimension. | |
| Mandatory | Yes or no | ||
| Sort order | Number | ||
| Active | Yes or no | ||
| Description | Long text |
The rules that apply here
Everything on this screen obeys the platform rules rather than rules of its own. The ones worth knowing before you use it:
- Narrowing a list — search, conditions, sort, totals, export and saved views.
- What may be changed — the five grounds a record may not be edited on.
- Companies and business units — what the switcher above this list is doing to it.
- Creating a record — required fields, where choices come from, and how the number is allocated.
- Importing a spreadsheet — this screen accepts one, and it runs through the same rules as typing.