Organization & Cost Allocation : API question

Hello
I need to setup the master data of cost allocation segments (Segment1 to 6) in our case, I am unable to find a suitable API for the purpose. I was expecting that hr_organization_api.create_hr_organization or hr_organization_api.create_organization should be accepting these segments to create an org and a cost_allocation_keyflex_id but that is not the case.
I searched and came across hr_cost_allocation_api.create_cost_allocation where it does take in segments but also has assignment_id as a mandatory field which doesnt make sense as I am only interested in first setting up cost allocation segments and logically this should happen first and later we shud be able to assign it to the employee's assignment.
Can anyone guide me to an API that setup the cost allocation?
Thanks & Regards
- Saira

Ivan,
All segments are optional
Following is the error that I get:
ORA-20001: HR_FLEX_VALUE_MISSING: N, COLUMN, SEGMENT1, N, PROMPT, COMPANY
ORA-06512: at "APPS.HR_KFLEX_UTILITY", line 1359
ORA-06512: at line 8
Certainly it tries to look for segment1 value (which I dont want to supply) thus it gives error as I have not assigned the value to segment1 and as part of business need , cost centre's cost allocation must be only to segment2,4,5,6.
I have also tried giving segment1 & 3 as NULL but get the same error
Thanks
- Saira

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