Profiles
When you have multiple shared sets for a type of data, you use profiles to identify the relationships between records in shared sets.
Example: You have two domains with different charts of accounts that share the same customers. When creating a customer, you specify the customer control account profile, and not the customer control account itself. The profile then points to the actual account to use in each account shared set.
Shared Sets and Profiles
In
Shared Sets and Profiles, two domains share customers. However, Domain A uses Account Shared Set 1 and Domain B uses Account Shared Set 2. The customer control account profile links customers to the correct customer control account in each account shared set.
In an entity using Account Shared Set 1, account 407100 is updated when the invoice for Customer 1 is created. An entity using Account Shared Set 2 updates account 407120 during invoicing.
For more information on profiles, see
Setting Up Profiles.
