2.3.1 Maintain Instruction Codes

This topic describes the systematic instruction to maintain the Instruction Codes.

You can register the standard set of instructions or statements that are applicable to the bills that you issue. These standard instructions can be made to appear in the correspondence and messages sent to the parties involved in a bill. Instead of specifying details of an instruction each time you to use it, maintain its details in the Bills & Collections Instruction Code Maintenance screen.

The advantage of maintaining Instruction Codes is that at the time of creating a product or while entering the details of a bill, you need to only specify the code assigned to the Instructions. All the details maintained for the instruction code will be automatically picked up. This considerably reduces time and effort as there is not need to enter the description of an instruction each time you use it. This maintenance is common for both BC and Islamic BC modules.

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

    Figure 2-5 Bills & Collections Instruction Code Maintenance


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  2. On Bills & Collections Instruction Code Maintenance screen, click New.
    1. To call a defined document maintenance record, select the Summary option under Documents tab.
    2. Double click on a document code of your choice to open it.
    The Summary screen is displayed.
  3. On Bills & Collections Instruction Code Maintenance screen, specify the fields, and then click Enter Query.
    For more information on the fields, refer to the below Field Description table.

    Table 2-3 Bills & Collections Instruction Code Maintenance - Field Description

    Field Description
    Instructions Code In Oracle Banking Trade Finance, each instruction that you maintain is identified by a twelve-character code called an Instruction Code. One of the characters of this code should be a letter of the English Alphabet. You can follow your own conventions for devising the code.

    The code that you specify should be unique as it is used to identify the instruction. While creating a product, or at the time of entering the details of a bill instead of specifying the Instructions required under a bill, you need to only specify the code assigned to the instruction. The instruction details will be automatically picked up and defaulted.

    This field is mandatory.

    Language Code Specify the language code using which all the correspondences with the party should be carried out. Click the adjoining option list icon to view the list of available language codes.

    This field is mandatory.

    Instruction Text After assigning a code to identify an instruction, you can proceed to maintain the description of the instruction. The contents of the instruction that you define can contain text up to two thousand characters
  4. On Bills & Collections Instruction Code Maintenance screen, click Fields.
    The User Defined Fields screen is displayed.
    You can link the User Defined Fields with Bills & Collections Instruction Code Maintenance screen using User Defined Fields Function Field Mapping Maintenance screen.

    Note:

    Value for UDF can be made mandatory or non mandatory as maintained in the Field description screen
  5. To open this screen from the Application Browser, select Common Entity, then Maintenance and then UDF Function Field Mapping.
  6. After making the required mandatory entries, you can save the record and click Exit to exit the screen.