Preface: play four fast EBS system, no technical background as a business consultant in contact from the beginning or in the context of the term just learning the general ledger module entry voucher whenever a new entry dealings involving subjects , you need to field a context where the elasticity information corresponding to the input and abroad. At that time what flexfield, look ignorant context of state force, later with gradually learning system was gradually understand what is flexfield, but the context has been still in a state of vague, but I do not know why they know these, two months of hard study programming knowledge, combined with business scenarios, and finally considered to understand some of the context of use, then be notes.
Body: front-end business scenarios, A company receives the value of a number of raw material suppliers to the company's 1000 B, C and A business-to-business sales customer number 2000 commodity value, financial accounting, vendor B, by: material procurement 1000 Credit: Accounts Payable section 1000 auxiliary accounting fields of the vendor B; respective accounting client C, by: accounts receivable 2000 credit: main business income 2000 auxiliary accounting fields of the client C.
Back-end technology scene: all of these entries are included in the GL_LINES table inside, this table has a field context, this field is context field, why should set up this field, mainly to the field for different values, different display business scenarios, such as accounts payable context of the subjects, between merchants fields can only display coded information providers, accounts receivable same context subjects, where the customer can only display code information. Chinese to explain the context of this very vivid outlines, which literally means to understand the range of things that are determined by me. By a technical point of view, the field values in the table can be seen as a parameter, a function is called a method, the method in which, depending on the type of passed parameters, different values of the corresponding display set.
In fact, the technical name of this thing is to put it bluntly, is not mysterious, the key is to see you next do not understand the truth. I'm just above a simple example to explain the context. In fact, many business scenarios can be used in the context of this thing, encountered specific scenarios specific analysis.