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Portfolio Type

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Description

Financial meaning

Portfolio Type has no specific financial meaning, it's a logical configure-defined classification of the portfolios, help to differentiate manual portfolios from transaction and position based portfolios.

Platform abstraction

Portfolio Type is an entity designed as a criterion for comparing portfolios against each other, defining configured-defined groups with the Portfolio Classes. Portfolio Classes represents the primary attribute, with pre-defined classes for reconciliation calculation and filtering purposes in the reports, entity viewers:

  • General Portfolio: Consists of banking transactions and/or a combination of initial positions and banking transactions.
  • Manual Managed Portfolio: Managed through manual transaction booking within the system or imported from the client's internal manual tracking systems for bank verification purposes.
  • Position Only Portfolio: Focuses on importing balance states for a specific day using Daily Positions/Cash transaction types.

It's used in:

Examples

User code Portfolio class Short name Name Public name  Notes  Configuration code
com.finmars.standard-other:portfolios.portfoliotype:general General Portfolio General Portfolio General Portfolio

com.finmars.standard-other

  • User code: workspace-unique identifier of the portfolio type with source prefix 

  • Portfolio class: classification used to define general behavior or usage category of the portfolio (e.g., General, Manual Managed)

  • Short name: compact label shown in lists and relations for easier navigation

  • Name: full descriptive name of the portfolio type

  • Public name: label shown to users without configuration access; often used in reports

  • Notes: optional custom description or comment field for internal purposes

  • Configuration code: reference to the configuration source that governs the behavior of this portfolio type

Cookbook

CRUD

Operations

    within
  • Create: platform.

    A new portfolio type can be created using the "+" button in the upper-right corner of the page. Users must provide the configuration code, user code, portfolio class, short name, name, public name, and optional notes.
  • Read: The same page provides a list of all existing portfolio types. Users can search, filter, and review attributes such as class, names, and configuration references.
  • Update: To edit a portfolio type, users can click on an existing entry to open the edit form. All fields—except those constrained by platform rules—can be modified, including the classification and public-facing labels.
  • Delete: Portfolio types can be deleted directly from the management page.
Use Cases

What

  • Portfolio Types help categorize portfolios by behavior, such as whether they are general-purpose, manually managed, or used solely for it'sreconciliation. used.

    These classifications are leveraged in reporting filters and entity viewers.
  • Fields like Short Name and Public Name allow different representations for internal use and external presentation. This is useful in environments where access permissions differ across user roles.

F.A.Q.

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