AllocatedMethodId
Allocated Method ID · Cost and Usage dataset
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- Feature level
- Conditional
- Data type
- String
- Allows nulls
- Yes
- Column type
- Dimension
What it is
Allocated Method ID is the unique identifier for the allocated method defined by the service provider which was used for the Data Generator-Calculated Split Cost Allocation. This unique identifier can be used to find how the allocated charge was calculated in the provider's documentation.
Requirements (6)
Verbatim from the specification. The validator checks presence, type, nulls and allowed values, not every statement below.
- AllocatedMethodId MUST be of type String.
- AllocatedMethodId MUST conform to StringHandling requirements.
- AllocatedMethodId MUST adhere to the following nullability requirements:
- AllocatedMethodId MUST be null when a charge is not related to a data generator-calculated split cost allocation.
- AllocatedMethodId MUST NOT be null when a charge is related to a data generator-calculated split cost allocation.
- Data generator-calculated split cost allocation method documentation MUST reference a single AllocatedMethodId value.
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Definition taken from the FOCUS 1.4 specification. FOCUS is published by the FinOps Foundation under CC BY 4.0.
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