Banner Form Naming Conventions
Banner forms contain seven letters which identify the form. Understanding the naming convention of the forms is key to familiarizing yourself with and identifying forms that you will be accessing.
Below, the seven positions of the forms are identified.
Position 1 identifies the primary system owning the screen, report, job or table.
- A = Advancement
- F = Finance
- G = General
- N = Position Control
- P = HR/Payroll/Personnel
- R = Financial Aid
- S = Student
- T = Accounts Receivable
Position 2 identifies the module within the system that owns the screen, report job or table.
- A = Accounts Payable
- B = Budget Development
- F = Fixed Assets
- G = General Ledger
- O = Operation
- P = Purchasing
- R – Research (Grants)
- T = Validation form/table
Position 3 identifies the type of screen, report, job or table.
- A = Application form
- B = Base table
- I = Inquiry form
- M = Maintenance form
- Q = Query form
- R = Rule table or repeating table or report
- V = Validation form/table view
Positions 4 through 7 uniquely identify the screen, report, job or table. Below are a few examples of how the last four positions are used.
- ACCI = Account Index
- BDSR = Budget summary
- CHKH = Check history
- DBST = Budget status
- DOCH = Document history
- DOCR = Document retrieval
- GLAC = General ledger activity
- TRND = Transaction details
Using form name FGITRND as an example, the naming convention for the first three fields indicates that it is a Finance form, affecting the General Ledger and it is an Inquiry form. The last four positions of this form, TRND, indicate that the form will retrieve Transaction Detail information.