Oracle Internet Expenses comes seeded with three Mileage ‘Unit of Measures‘, namely Miles, Kilometers and Swedish Miles. Without trying to offend our friends from Sweden, it is often the case that an end user of Oracle i-Expenses will only want to see and use the unit of measure(s) that are relevant to the business expense policy or geographical region in which they operate. When creating an expense claim and selecting the expense type of ‘Mileage’ users often ask the questions:

Why do I see Swedish Miles?
   or
Can I just have Miles?
   or
Can you remove all values in the Unit of Measure list and just keep the one that is relevant for our T&S policy?

For users in other regions, the same question may well include the desire to remove Miles (e.g. regions in mainland Europe) or Kilometers (e.g. UK). The screenshot below shots the seeded view of values a user is presented with when entering a mileage claim.

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