Add Departments details to Asset Assignment

[AIMAM]

Hi,

In Oracle Applications 11i, the Assets Assignment form (FAXASSET) has details like:
-employee name
-Expense account and
-Location Key flexfield which consists of 4 segments: City, Building, Floor and Room

The user sometimes needs to assign the asset to a department and not to a particular employee.
On the test instance, I have tried to add a fifth segment to the Location KFF.
Now, after I reassign the asset to the new location I have the following error:

Please enter a value for the parameter or segment Department.

I think it has to do with never using the fifth segment before.


How can I fix this? Or Is there any other solution or workaround in order to assign the asset to a department?

Thanks.

[AmanKhan]

After adding new Dept Segment in Loc KFF, now you have to assign some value to old assigned location Dept field as you are assigning in new assignment.
There is no issue with adding new segment except that you have to update assignment of all assets for Dept field with NA/0 value where dept is not applicable.

Regards,

[AIMAM]

Thanks AmanKhan for your reply.


AND Thanks to Pavol in Oracle Metalink forums:

I have unchecked the required checkbox of the segment and it works perfectly.

It will be unnecessary to modify the old records.


Thanks.

[AmanKhan]

Although you have unchecked the required checkbox for Dept segment but keep in mind that it is KFF segment not DFF which you can mark not required. KFF segments are always required and should be fill by some value.
I'll suggest that you update old records as well to avoid any issue in future. Use dataload to update old records.

Regards,

Fahd