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Function documentationContract Search and Display

 

You can use the search function to start most of the management tasks concerning revenue accounting contracts and performance obligations.

Features

Search Criteria

You can search for revenue accounting contracts using attributes on contracts and performance obligations. The search function addresses the following typical scenarios:

  • Searching for contracts that have specific attributes

    For example, you can search for revenue accounting contracts of a certain company code that were created later than a specific date.

  • Searching for contracts that are associated with specific operational documents

    For example, you can search for revenue accounting contracts associated with a certain sales order.

  • Searching for contracts that contain specific performance obligations

    For example, you can search for revenue accounting contracts that contain performance obligations with a certain performance obligation name.

Result Views

You can display search results using the following views:

  • General view

    This view is a plain list of revenue accounting contracts.

  • Grouping by contract and then operational document

    This view is a two-level hierarchical list. The first level lists groupings by contract. The second level lists operational documents associated with each contract.

  • Grouping by operational document and then contract

    This view is a two-level hierarchical list. The first level lists groupings by operational document. The second level lists contracts associated with each operational document.

Management Views

When you open a revenue accounting contract to view its details, the system provides the most important information about the current contract and the performance obligations contained in the contract. In addition, the system provides several perspectives for you to manage the performance obligations in the contract:

  • Performance Obligation Structure

    In this perspective, you typically perform tasks that involve managing the structure of performance obligations and their relationships with one another.

  • Price Allocation

    In this perspective, you typically perform tasks that involve managing price allocation. You can view and rearrange the price allocation of the contract.

  • Revenue Schedule

    In this perspective, you typically perform tasks that involve managing the fulfillment of performance obligations. You can view and manage the fulfillment progress of the performance obligations. By default, fulfillment data is listed by accounting period. You can view the fulfillment details of each accounting period.

  • Comprehensive View

    This perspective is integrated with many functions that are available in other perspectives. This typically allows you to perform different types of task from a single user interface.

Performance Obligation List

When a list of performance obligations is displayed on a user interface, you have several options for organizing the performance obligations:

  • Standard view

    This view is a plain list of the performance obligations contained in the contract.

  • Hierarchical view: grouping by operational document and then performance obligation type

    This view is a three-level hierarchical list of the performance obligations contained in the contract. The first level is a grouping by operational document. The second level is a grouping by performance obligation type. The third level lists all performance obligations in a specific grouping.

  • Hierarchical view: grouping by performance obligation type and then operational document

    This view is a three-level hierarchical list of the performance obligations contained in the contract. The first level is a grouping by performance obligation type. The second level is a grouping by operational document. The third level lists all performance obligations in a specific grouping.

Activities

You can perform the following tasks:

  • Search for contracts

  • Display contracts in different views

  • Display performance obligations in different views

  • Display details of a specific contract

  • Display details of a specific performance obligation

  • Edit contracts

  • Edit performance obligations

  • Navigate to other editing options

As an entry point, the search function allows you to navigate to other options to perform specific tasks. For more information, see the following topics: