Sys Admin and AOL Lession 3

Flexfields provide you with the features you need to satisfy the following business needs:

•Customize your applications to conform to your current business practice for accounting codes, product codes, and other codes.
•Customize your applications to capture data that would not otherwise be tracked by your application.
Have “intelligent fields” that are fields comprised of one or more segments, where each segment has both a value and a meaning

•Rely upon your application to validate the values and the combination of values that you enter in intelligent fields (Cross Validation Rules).
•Have the structure of an intelligent field change depending on data in your form or application data.
•Customize data fields to your meet your business needs without programming.Query intelligent fields for very specific information.