Difference Between KFF and DFF in Oracle Apps

    

Key Flexfield A Key Flexfield as the name suggest is a key building block of a module and is required for defining the structure of objects of that module e.g. The Account Structure, Item Structure etc. Key Flexfield captures mandatory business information like company department, account etc. KFF is Mandatory KFF displays like text item KFF’s data are stored in the segments 30 segment columns are reserved for KFF’s data

Descriptive Flexfield A descriptive Flexfield as the name suggests helps more in describing an object (like a transaction or screen) more than the available fields on that screen Descriptive Flexfield captures additional business information like name of the company’s MD etc. DFF is optional DFF displays like [] DFF’s data are stored in the attributes 15 attribute columns are reserved for the DFF’s data.