1. Bills and Collections User Guide
  2. Maintenance
  3. Bills and Collections Free Format Code Maintenance
  4. Maintain the Bills and Collections Free Format Texts (FFT)

2.5.1 Maintain the Bills and Collections Free Format Texts (FFT)

This topic provides the systematic instructions to capture Bills & Collections Free Format Code Maintenance details.

Free Format Texts (FFTs) are a set of instructions or statements that apply to the bills that you process. Several standard free format texts should appear in the correspondence and messages sent to the parties involved in the bill. Instead of specifying the details of the FFT each time you need to use it, maintain them in the FFT Maintenance screen.

The advantage of maintaining FFT details is that at the time of creating a product or while entering the details of a bill, you need only to specify the code assigned to the FFT. Automatically all the details maintained for the FFT code are picked. This reduces your effort, as you do not need to enter the description of the FFT each time you use it.

Specify the User ID and Password, and login to Homepage.
  1. On the Homepage, type BCDFFTCD in the text box, and click the next arrow.
    Bills & Collections Free Format Code Maintenance screen is displayed.

    Figure 2-7 Bills & Collections Free Format Code Maintenance


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  2. On the Bills and Collections Free Format Code Maintenance screen, specify the details as required.
  3. Click Save to save the details else click Cancel; Or Click Enter Query to view the details which are maintained.
    For information on fields, refer to: Table 2-4

    Table 2-4 Bills and Collections Free Format Code Maintenance - Field Description

    Field Description
    FFT Code This is a mandatory field

    In Oracle Banking Trade Finance, each FFT maintained is a unique 12-character code called FFT code, used to identify the FFT. Follow your conventions for devising the code and ensure one of the characters of this code is an English Alphabet.

    While creating a product, or entering the details of a bill instead of specifying the FFTs required under a bill, specify the code assigned to FFT. The FFT details will be automatically picked up and defaulted.
    Language Code This is a mandatory field

    Specify the language code using which all the correspondences with the party carried out. The adjoining option list displays all available language codes. Choose the appropriate one.
    Free Format Text After you have assigned a code to identify an FFT, proceed to maintain the description of the FFT. The description that you specify can contain text up to 2500 characters. After you have made the required mandatory entries, save the record.
    Footer On saving the record, your User ID displayed in the Checker field at the bottom of the screen, also, the Date/Time field displays the date and time of the record saved.

    Note:

    The Bills and Collections Free Format Code details is available for association with Bill contracts only after authorizing the Bills and Collections Free Format Code details.

Parent topic: Bills and Collections Free Format Code Maintenance