Segment keys (CS202000)

• ACCGROUP: Used for IDs of account groups in project management
• ACCOUNT: Used for general ledger accounts
• BIZACCT: Associated with the account used for your company's branches in the system; the parent key for the SUPPLIER, CUSTOMER, and EMPLOYEE segmented keys
• CASHACCOUNT: Used for branch-specific cash accounts based on general ledger accounts
• CONTRACT: Used for numbers of contracts; inherits its structure from the PROJECT segmented key
• CONTRACTITEM: Used for contract items
• CUSTOMER: Used for customer numbers; inherits its structure from the BIZACCT key
• EMPLOYEE: Used for numbers of company employees; inherits its structure from the BIZACCT key
• INLOCATION: Used for IDs of warehouse locations
• INSITE: Used for IDs of warehouses
• INVENTORY: Used for stock IDs of stock and non-stock items
• LOCATION: Used for IDs of customer and supplier locations
• MLISTCD: Used for mail lists
• PROJECT: Used for IDs of projects and project templates
• PROTASK: Used for IDs of project tasks
• SALESPER: Used for salesperson IDs
• SUBACCOUNT: Used for general ledger subaccounts
• TMCONTRACT: Used for contract templates
• VENDOR: Used for supplier numbers ; inherits its structure from the BIZACCT key

The list of available segmented keys depends on the functionality is enabled in the Enable/disable functionalities (CS100000) window.

To help the system narrow the search and improve the speed on search, select the lookup mode that fits your search. The options are:

• By segment: All avail. segment values
• By segment key

This option affects only the INLOCATION and SUBACCOUNT keys.

A check box that (if cleared) forces the users to specify objects on data entry windows only by selecting existing object IDs from the list.
The list of subaccounts is created in the Subaccounts (GL203000) window.
The list of warehouse locations is created in the Warehouses (IN204000) window.

Select the check box to give the users the ability to enter object IDs on data entry windows as combinations of available segment values—there will be no need to create all the allowed IDs on the dedicated windows before they can be used on data entry windows.

Read-only.

A check box that indicates (if selected) that the segment value overrides the value inherited from the parent.
This column is available only for the segmented keys that have a parent (such as CONTRACT, CUSTOMER, and EMPLOYEE).

The maximum length of the segment.

Make sure that the total length of all segments does not exceed the maximum length, which is specified in the Max length field in the top part.

• Alpha: Allows the input of only Latin letters, such as A and z
• Numeric: Allows the input of only digits
• Alphanumeric: Allows the input of Latin letters and digits
• Unicode: Allows the input of any symbols, including any language symbols and special characters (such as % or _).

  The underscore symbol(_) is one of the SQL wild-card characters. If you search for an entity by its ID that contain this symbol, the system considers underscore as the wild-card character (a substitute for any single character)and returns corresponding results.

A check box that indicates (if selected) that validation of segment values is turned on.

It means that you can add a value to each particular segment only by selecting the value from the list of available ones.
You open the list of segment values by pointing to the required segment and pressing F3.

This validation works only in windows that can be used to create objects (data entry windows), where objects are selected by their IDs.

Only segment values of the segments requiring validation can be included into a restriction group.

For the consolidation process, we recommend that you select this check box if the length of the subaccount segment in the consolidating company (shown in the Number of characters column) differs from the length of the subaccount segment to be mapped (shown in the Length field).

A check box that indicates (if selected) that the number series selected in the Number series ID field will be used to generate values for this segment in IDs.

If the Auto number option is selected on for the segment, select the Unicode option in the Edit mask column.

The auto-numbering option can be applied to only one segment in a key.
It is recommended that if you need to use auto-numbering for specific IDs, you configure the appropriate segmented key as a single-segmented key.

If the auto-numbering option is selected for the single segment of the segmented key, the number series assigned to the segment may be defined with Start number and End number that have less characters than the segment length.

The character that will be used as the segment separator when the object ID is displayed.

This separator doesn't affect the ID length.

The character specified here must be different from the one specified in Prompt character for the segment.

The character that will used for displaying this segment at input prompts.

You can use different symbols for each segment, but it must be different from the value used as separator for each segment.
The default column value is _ (underscore) and the column is hidden by default.

If you want to use the underscore symbol as the segment separator, change the default value of this field to another symbol.

We do not recommend changing a prompt character after you have started entering IDs.
If you change the prompt character to a character that has been used in some of the existing IDs, you are not be able to view, edit or find entities whose IDs contain the new prompt character.

The number that represents the order of this string among other strings in the parent company's subaccount; this column is displayed for only the SUBACCOUNT key.

For more details, see: General ledger consolidation overview.

This column is available only if the General ledger consolidation functionality is enabled in the Enable/disable functionalities (CS100000) window.

The length (in characters) of the string in the parent's subaccount to which the segment value is mapped; this column is displayed for only the SUBACCOUNT key.

This setting is used only if the company is a consolidation unit for the parent company.

This column is available only if the General ledger consolidation functionality is enabled in the Enable/disable functionalities (CS100000) window.

If the number of characters is set to 0, then this segment will be skipped during import of the consolidation data.