tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64738928068472153132024-03-15T18:09:46.963-07:00Oracle Applications(Oracle Apps 11i / R12, OAF, XML Publisher, iModules)Oracallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17943004758238765111noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473892806847215313.post-74484436217853479052010-10-16T16:15:00.000-07:002010-10-16T18:04:56.093-07:00Oracle EBS R12 Installation on VM -OEL 5.5After long time i am posting this article about Installation of Oracle R12 on a desktop / laptop.<br />The issue with any ERP is the accessibility for learning new version. If you work in a large enterprise then you have the luxury to access latest Oracle ERP versions but if you are in a small enterprise or independent then accessibility is an issue. Even if you want to learn new features, want to play around and do R&D in latest versions you do not have much choice other than having your own Oracle R12 instance.<br /><br />Environment-<br />Host machine -Windows 7 / min 300GB Free disk space / min 4GB RAM / Core2Duo processor<br />Guest machine -VMWare / VMPlayer 3.x / 300GB Disk space / 4GB RAM / Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.5<br /><br />Oracle EBS R12 -R12.1.1<br /><br />I have divided the video in 2 parts.<br />I hope the videos would help in your installation.<br /><br />Oracle EBS R12 Installation / Part-1<br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fthxDUXiX1w?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fthxDUXiX1w?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br />Oracle EBS R12 Installation / Part-2<br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ou-PM3YSU9o?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ou-PM3YSU9o?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>Oracallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17943004758238765111noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473892806847215313.post-76170525692441256572010-05-29T09:52:00.000-07:002010-05-31T09:15:37.547-07:00Setting up Credit Cards in iExpense<div><div>Credit Cards functionality in Oracle can be used in the following Oracle modules to automate expenses / procurement busines in the company,</div><div><br /></div><div>Oracle iExpense </div><div>Oracle iProcurement</div><div><br /></div><div>In this post we will be discussiong about Credit Card functionality used through Oracle iExpense.</div><div><br /></div><div>Typically large / midium companies give credit cards to their employees to use it for company related expenses.</div><div>Company related expenses like Travel expenses (Accomodation, Car rental, Meal etc) / Visa expenses etc. </div><div>As part of the process, companies first evaluate which credit card company to go with (like Visa / Master card / AMEX) and then the credit card issuer like Bank of America / CITIBANK / US Bank etc.</div><div><br /></div><div>There are multiple factors which influences this decision like service offerings / ease of integration / cost factor etc.</div><div>In Oracle for iExpense, AMEX being the most popular one.</div><div><br /></div><div>Once you decide which credit card and credit card issuer to go with, following setup steps are required in Oracle in order to be able to use the credit card functionality in iExpense,</div><div><br /></div><div>1. Setup Credit card program</div><div>2. Setup Credit card profile</div><div>3. Setup Credit cards</div><div>4. Enable Credit card functionality in iExpense</div></div>Oracallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17943004758238765111noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473892806847215313.post-80202211468141255252010-05-16T02:43:00.001-07:002010-05-29T09:51:04.783-07:00Oracle EBS 11i:Creating a simple search/result page in OAFIn this post we will see how to create a simple search/result OAF page. I have taken a simple supplier search/result page as an example.<br /><br />Pre-requisites for this video:<br /><ul><li>JDeveloper 9i with OA Extension</li><li>You have the EO / VO / AM (BC4J components) ready for the OAF page -refer my last video on how to create these.<br /></li></ul>I have used Oracle JDeveloper 9i with OA extension as the IDE. (refer my previous post on how to install and set up JDeveloper 9i with OA extension)<br /><br />Check out the following video about how to create a simple search/result page in OAF,<br /><br /><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Yqoj2TvoQYk&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Yqoj2TvoQYk&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>Oracallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17943004758238765111noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473892806847215313.post-52937942163725807982010-05-15T17:08:00.000-07:002010-05-15T21:08:25.948-07:00OAF:Creating EO / VO / AMAs part of creating an OAF page using Oracle application framework using JDeveloper 9i, in this post we will see how to create<br /><br /><ul><li>Entity Object (EO)<br /></li><li>View Object (VO)</li><li>Application Module (AM)</li></ul>These are the pre-requisites for creating a page in OAF.<br /><br />Pre-requisites for this video tutorial are,<br /><br /><ul><li>JDeveloper 9i with OA Extension (I have used for Oracle application ver 11.5.10.2CU) - Refer my previous video for the installation of the same.</li></ul>Check out following video.<br /><br /><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Sv9K1usOeWk&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Sv9K1usOeWk&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>Oracallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17943004758238765111noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473892806847215313.post-30780014811437390602010-05-12T01:07:00.000-07:002010-05-12T23:49:36.470-07:00Oracle JDeveloper 9i / 10g with OA Extension installationClient OS: Windows XP / 2000 / Windows 7<br />JDeveloper version: JDeveloper 9i / 10g<br /><br />First get the OA Framework version in your Oracle apps environment using below URL,<br /><br />http://your_apps_url:port_number/OA_HTML/OAInfo.jsp<br /><br />replace "your_apps_url" with your APPS URL, PORT_NUMBER with your APPS port number<br /><br />This will give you info about your OA framework version with some other details about your environment.<br /><br />Then go to following Oracle metalink note ID:787209.1<br />This would give you the right patch number to download.<br /><br />Follow the video to install JDeveloper 9i. This would also work for JDeveloper 10g.<br /><br /><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/keSzvhliOZ0&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/keSzvhliOZ0&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>Oracallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17943004758238765111noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473892806847215313.post-29344900742652665862010-04-25T22:07:00.003-07:002010-11-04T23:55:14.861-07:00Oracle EBS 11i setup -Oracle Payables setupPAYABLE SETUP<br /><br />Pre-requisites,<br />--COA is defined<br />--Set of Books defined<br />--Legal entity, Operating unit, Inventory Orgs defined<br />--Payable setup responsibility defined with all the required profiles assigned<br /><br />1. Setup Financial Options-<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTFeRuU78S-bW6iuhLqFTR9rWfb1nhRXqJdw7PpXqBKc-C0ui-nT7AfuLlYrYPZ3b-Xs6JJBTJ0pLMKj-gNoXSY6aSSAkakZJf0TxO5fTJUBpi8AC3YIPUYbuaROve9uSjPYPQCNWvCSoa/s1600/payables+-financial+options.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 220px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTFeRuU78S-bW6iuhLqFTR9rWfb1nhRXqJdw7PpXqBKc-C0ui-nT7AfuLlYrYPZ3b-Xs6JJBTJ0pLMKj-gNoXSY6aSSAkakZJf0TxO5fTJUBpi8AC3YIPUYbuaROve9uSjPYPQCNWvCSoa/s400/payables+-financial+options.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5535593719014311250" /></a><br /><br />2. Setup Payable options-<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVq3_kigcfrlOT8m9Y5xHn6EeMlYftU1rNsNTBvwZnnnFNbvJ6wEj8KEAbl06wYleQOxbCXRQy79qL4bjp0kyhyphenhyphenS0uWbVV7P1Fblo0ihQovnui3SQOjGfs0f2OaDcs5aQSZmguEl2AAYUj/s1600/payables+-payable+options.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 228px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVq3_kigcfrlOT8m9Y5xHn6EeMlYftU1rNsNTBvwZnnnFNbvJ6wEj8KEAbl06wYleQOxbCXRQy79qL4bjp0kyhyphenhyphenS0uWbVV7P1Fblo0ihQovnui3SQOjGfs0f2OaDcs5aQSZmguEl2AAYUj/s400/payables+-payable+options.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5535593918439818290" /></a><br /><br />3. Define Payment terms-<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwjKtRexwZe4qM_vxxg9SwRdNsovgTN_BhZyN-QEmiEPdaDHl7g1zw18YNJ1RsfKANTheVjxS52Qotuq1k7KUKwRGLEsaUE60o8UWhCqf5X_W5k8aNKJGTaap9DYh8hGD6mdZV6jVxAW1V/s1600/payables+-payment+terms.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 208px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwjKtRexwZe4qM_vxxg9SwRdNsovgTN_BhZyN-QEmiEPdaDHl7g1zw18YNJ1RsfKANTheVjxS52Qotuq1k7KUKwRGLEsaUE60o8UWhCqf5X_W5k8aNKJGTaap9DYh8hGD6mdZV6jVxAW1V/s400/payables+-payment+terms.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5535594130372319778" /></a><br /><br />4. Disbursement Bank setup-<br /><br />a> Setup Payment programs (optional)<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg10iyY4T6mXz0___VHDxKx29ba9zkYxhXuo8qoJYrD2jfC-VzDaS2MTdskiwag9kKKNlNeOkhn7JxMHDGGj8QBgf-tqs3gWTPqNnuGTnHtkaEGQUwbCfgoxNIxQhyO7LMjRQSGCrhzVv3L/s1600/payables+-bank+program.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 187px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg10iyY4T6mXz0___VHDxKx29ba9zkYxhXuo8qoJYrD2jfC-VzDaS2MTdskiwag9kKKNlNeOkhn7JxMHDGGj8QBgf-tqs3gWTPqNnuGTnHtkaEGQUwbCfgoxNIxQhyO7LMjRQSGCrhzVv3L/s400/payables+-bank+program.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5535594417848805986" /></a><br /><br />b> Setup Payment format (Optional),<br />If you have custom/specific bank payment format then define payment formats,<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmcsLD8Q_-yqKZ0uQmrsxC6V8zywsWrVKb7IUdTqyXoObnRTUT5kW_1_7NOhJJSc2CiQSApXEbZzcteEcIGRAbCux6yFxqOPScs8l2KUvYv2FeWfuugIi4_EGQH4nyNFBUVsCTWC1L4YAC/s1600/payables+-bank+format.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 280px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmcsLD8Q_-yqKZ0uQmrsxC6V8zywsWrVKb7IUdTqyXoObnRTUT5kW_1_7NOhJJSc2CiQSApXEbZzcteEcIGRAbCux6yFxqOPScs8l2KUvYv2FeWfuugIi4_EGQH4nyNFBUVsCTWC1L4YAC/s400/payables+-bank+format.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5535594858181475186" /></a><br /><br /><br />c> Setup Disbursement bank (Required),<br />You must setup your disbursement bank (internal bank) through which you are going to pay your suppliers,<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUBUr3DEyeMaqHXTHnHFCp9E7AfN7PyvmHspLbiigCBV6gtiPulXrsLUao_1AfyTOSYImz8viAwfei-iUe-3T2T4p5cMmkAI6COoYuoDZEMxYcsSODNdrUssyzpOm6plfz94ohDClu3aMZ/s1600/payables+-bank.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 228px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUBUr3DEyeMaqHXTHnHFCp9E7AfN7PyvmHspLbiigCBV6gtiPulXrsLUao_1AfyTOSYImz8viAwfei-iUe-3T2T4p5cMmkAI6COoYuoDZEMxYcsSODNdrUssyzpOm6plfz94ohDClu3aMZ/s400/payables+-bank.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5535595166883624738" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />This concludes your Oracle payable setup. You are ready to create Invoices and pay your suppliers.Oracallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17943004758238765111noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473892806847215313.post-8879924301325507452010-04-25T22:07:00.001-07:002010-11-03T23:51:11.122-07:00Oracle EBS 11i setup -Oracle purchasing setupPurchasing Setup<br /><br />Assuming your employees are setup in Oracle with valid assignments.<br /><br />Step 1 - Choose Setup of Books (This is the most important setup and can not be undo once setup. So, pay special attention while doing this setup)<br /><br />Choose the Correct Setup of Book name. Once setup, this can not be changed. So, be very careful while choosing the set of book name.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAF0hVeBqmCZz4ujh-tZF8s6itLWhxtoSHNqm2r4zVpdnMIaRapkD-Z1AL9tLE18B-K0WZcdVg6PMrdziGpLLS22aDVBEVcqY3BYe-8OSa2rii6Ve-tUd3DHRTvt5y9HsFDCQD-XmBth20/s1600/purchasing+-choose+SOB.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 195px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAF0hVeBqmCZz4ujh-tZF8s6itLWhxtoSHNqm2r4zVpdnMIaRapkD-Z1AL9tLE18B-K0WZcdVg6PMrdziGpLLS22aDVBEVcqY3BYe-8OSa2rii6Ve-tUd3DHRTvt5y9HsFDCQD-XmBth20/s400/purchasing+-choose+SOB.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534239032476326258" /></a><br /><br /><br />Step 2 - Setup Purchasing Options<br /><br />Receipt Accounting (Key fields)-<br />Accrue Expense Items ("Period End")<br />AP Expense Accrual account -Liability account type<br />Accrue inventory items (Here it has been set up as "At Receipt")<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYBV_t4e0KnqRwGcRHqTacXpJDhtwnx35h28mYb2vfaCGfvpDHj7cWOXN5b2p9MztqMeOA5PmXgZXmqRXlgy-l3EP-frCCsbb03SKSKgOv86s_BjX8T3AiqNVxU0dKMgjy1BA-EcO6FAiw/s1600/purchasing+options+-receipt+accounting.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 249px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYBV_t4e0KnqRwGcRHqTacXpJDhtwnx35h28mYb2vfaCGfvpDHj7cWOXN5b2p9MztqMeOA5PmXgZXmqRXlgy-l3EP-frCCsbb03SKSKgOv86s_BjX8T3AiqNVxU0dKMgjy1BA-EcO6FAiw/s400/purchasing+options+-receipt+accounting.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534239217531766194" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-6eAPkD6PN-69Y6Z63P_gWIN1WDp-6Nlq8Lvs3KNRm33Qe0vXocFwUHyyufm21roh9X0LAOjJ9PriSRnN7o8OHN5z35OCK-NA3BtfTigGHw5uDFivLWwGDgLHtBJlCVpTLY-WGJDeRVaa/s1600/purchasing+options+-control.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 165px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-6eAPkD6PN-69Y6Z63P_gWIN1WDp-6Nlq8Lvs3KNRm33Qe0vXocFwUHyyufm21roh9X0LAOjJ9PriSRnN7o8OHN5z35OCK-NA3BtfTigGHw5uDFivLWwGDgLHtBJlCVpTLY-WGJDeRVaa/s400/purchasing+options+-control.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534239957617322562" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTIsSfH-Ijda-y5QcYiWIaYBOeLzDCSe9b0tE__K7xPnRthzfEwbxeWdqI0xnxigH_Ie_WtynRfmUOYzNbiZS8JDiRsfAVcn_1AIUcL4Y3-7FW3_5MXuRhXb9QGE_7YQ0XZzLcuRw4Ia34/s1600/purchasing+options+-default.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 171px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTIsSfH-Ijda-y5QcYiWIaYBOeLzDCSe9b0tE__K7xPnRthzfEwbxeWdqI0xnxigH_Ie_WtynRfmUOYzNbiZS8JDiRsfAVcn_1AIUcL4Y3-7FW3_5MXuRhXb9QGE_7YQ0XZzLcuRw4Ia34/s400/purchasing+options+-default.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534240090696025026" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfFOwXNm5kpgCyuqrMF4hDmJzNnZ7Ajl1jP_h7-8LR47TQR_onVr7AS0UkZRyO7OxwVlnv_MV5d5gZ1Y-SRiFF8DTLZa9v1ydSTRfwLWT46YoNqFOn6QqDzqtgtL2wMEnoWxKCw9_1S6SC/s1600/purchasing+options+-numbering.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 169px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfFOwXNm5kpgCyuqrMF4hDmJzNnZ7Ajl1jP_h7-8LR47TQR_onVr7AS0UkZRyO7OxwVlnv_MV5d5gZ1Y-SRiFF8DTLZa9v1ydSTRfwLWT46YoNqFOn6QqDzqtgtL2wMEnoWxKCw9_1S6SC/s400/purchasing+options+-numbering.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534240188518891378" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPdJfhF5TZqjQble9bIVUKoz-OfLTzQA33J-92YFVyrE9HEl69oFLJPLAQrSsJzMa94aUzK7ZXZ8qK_KXAjBJD1QPIdtCMtuB00za92bRADhT86OzGHxYLwYXFyP7UGqc1_Adch1v83LOx/s1600/purchasing+options+-tax+def.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 169px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPdJfhF5TZqjQble9bIVUKoz-OfLTzQA33J-92YFVyrE9HEl69oFLJPLAQrSsJzMa94aUzK7ZXZ8qK_KXAjBJD1QPIdtCMtuB00za92bRADhT86OzGHxYLwYXFyP7UGqc1_Adch1v83LOx/s400/purchasing+options+-tax+def.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534240280046588674" /></a><br /><br /><br />Step 2 - Setup Purchasing Document Types<br /><br />For more details on each field, you can go to the help screen of this page. <br />Security level - This option gives you control to set at which level you want this document to be accessible.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitIGJny30GYEqm3UAfSa-u7Ug-Gmeide7YhgnaDY0wlc7mvTSHe_3Oi2cIVL6McuBJe0hUbF4ARstAr75Oo_2B5Mn9X1u0nmZkINSHW6Le5lBCY6PXejA1Xew-nyEznyUM3_26OEXkwztf/s1600/purchasing+-document+types.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 235px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitIGJny30GYEqm3UAfSa-u7Ug-Gmeide7YhgnaDY0wlc7mvTSHe_3Oi2cIVL6McuBJe0hUbF4ARstAr75Oo_2B5Mn9X1u0nmZkINSHW6Le5lBCY6PXejA1Xew-nyEznyUM3_26OEXkwztf/s400/purchasing+-document+types.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534239392291420130" /></a><br /><br /><br />Step 3 - Setup Purchasing Approval Groups<br />Define the approval groups for your documents.<br />Document total -Enter the $ limit for this approval group.<br />Account range -Enter the same $limit and complete account range starting from 000 to ZZZ for all segments.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSM0bQNvMcsl2Q3GIp2TU-8gJcCHdKjr9jLkglJfkue-JCQ40JBWb9u8FQqud7pjAeqV8f_gN6jbVhb_24UEmztNQL4ljNBKF17cH4UXlUnHXLPXavZRLOL3L6JPm2jeW4P40T4P2CcFVV/s1600/purchasing+-approval+groups.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 196px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSM0bQNvMcsl2Q3GIp2TU-8gJcCHdKjr9jLkglJfkue-JCQ40JBWb9u8FQqud7pjAeqV8f_gN6jbVhb_24UEmztNQL4ljNBKF17cH4UXlUnHXLPXavZRLOL3L6JPm2jeW4P40T4P2CcFVV/s400/purchasing+-approval+groups.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534239540536164706" /></a><br /><br /><br />Step 4 - Assign PO Approval Groups to Job or Position depending upon setup in Purchasing options<br /><br />Assign the approval groups defined in step 3 to Jobs / Positions (depending on the Purchasing options/ Human resources setup).<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTvMwvtsqOwc_3SDtIxms_T4R4q_Rc7yjthwNvdVl-QpPW2FpUox8dLjDq76O235nHCTx8lhCVUENaATXO8_tMtdUaLYcw7QU9Cg8VCCUEUoTP7TrG4cry8wbQd2_Q4DWYWKSQ91j70G-A/s1600/purchasing+-approval+groups+assignment.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 203px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTvMwvtsqOwc_3SDtIxms_T4R4q_Rc7yjthwNvdVl-QpPW2FpUox8dLjDq76O235nHCTx8lhCVUENaATXO8_tMtdUaLYcw7QU9Cg8VCCUEUoTP7TrG4cry8wbQd2_Q4DWYWKSQ91j70G-A/s400/purchasing+-approval+groups+assignment.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534239677608987618" /></a><br /><br /><br />Step 5 - Setup Buyers<br />Setup new Buyers.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8SOulUAZh9P4RFJVo3wWeiHvnyPyF9o-zO8Dx4heEUbmdOGShLeCXruKv_TfI1PhJ3rmMGwCKPkZHzhxOcH0mYhyphenhyphenlOAKMa-ky1aC6SBJeEaLCivCVm8s591u1lAJszsmKzPeeJn8f7jR9/s1600/purchasing+-buyers+setup.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 186px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8SOulUAZh9P4RFJVo3wWeiHvnyPyF9o-zO8Dx4heEUbmdOGShLeCXruKv_TfI1PhJ3rmMGwCKPkZHzhxOcH0mYhyphenhyphenlOAKMa-ky1aC6SBJeEaLCivCVm8s591u1lAJszsmKzPeeJn8f7jR9/s400/purchasing+-buyers+setup.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5535581914811716578" /></a><br /><br /><br />Step 6 - Setup Inventory items or/and Purchasing categories<br />Setup Purchasing Categories/Inventory items (if you have Inventory setup, optional) to be used while creating POs.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhmqL1_YYWgYkGJp8tcmN9xSw_MUblKHcURo65etKZmP0R-gZRXII6rqO_wPBnwMwq3fc6XgpAu0fvayBLE8c6lYRYgDrDZXk0E9GUzXdhkF2l-RasYcmA54InkO7rqZLYh39598kNoyBw/s1600/purchasing+-po+category+setup.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 202px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhmqL1_YYWgYkGJp8tcmN9xSw_MUblKHcURo65etKZmP0R-gZRXII6rqO_wPBnwMwq3fc6XgpAu0fvayBLE8c6lYRYgDrDZXk0E9GUzXdhkF2l-RasYcmA54InkO7rqZLYh39598kNoyBw/s400/purchasing+-po+category+setup.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5535582221501014578" /></a><br /><br /><br />Step 7 - Define Default accounts for Purchasing categories (Optional)<br />This is an optional setup. If setup then when a purchasing category is chosen while creating the PO, the charge or expense account automatically gets defaulted to the PO at PO distribution level. Work with your business users to get the default accounts for each category to set this up.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwjpWKipyVpqbX4iNIZenwbSFVLCEzE5enFjEnzdgapSeR7HczY4UhhJF_SoOMouF5f7l9fYTnQdX1BUx1IKK3F2yzr58N5u5Py_-ypzjPkUCY_fyr_9rfRC9pL9Oh9IkZphdF34OW_2f4/s1600/purchasing+-expense+account+rule.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 193px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwjpWKipyVpqbX4iNIZenwbSFVLCEzE5enFjEnzdgapSeR7HczY4UhhJF_SoOMouF5f7l9fYTnQdX1BUx1IKK3F2yzr58N5u5Py_-ypzjPkUCY_fyr_9rfRC9pL9Oh9IkZphdF34OW_2f4/s400/purchasing+-expense+account+rule.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5535582422300675650" /></a><br /><br /><br />Step 8 - Define any custom PO Line types (Optional)<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyUuEfQ1hKXTEG2SsKbgmC_8uzRH3KtUjyyCN5yjsr79tEPmTpQ_hRm6N-XFEtq5kvVTUJPV4ATja7JjpR7ZX5bhffF-Nz-IqAi0vxnWemgm2de92xuHrntaSoRiajMoMGnu7RyST-rGhy/s1600/purchasing+-po+line+types.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 208px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyUuEfQ1hKXTEG2SsKbgmC_8uzRH3KtUjyyCN5yjsr79tEPmTpQ_hRm6N-XFEtq5kvVTUJPV4ATja7JjpR7ZX5bhffF-Nz-IqAi0vxnWemgm2de92xuHrntaSoRiajMoMGnu7RyST-rGhy/s400/purchasing+-po+line+types.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5535582535713360898" /></a><br /><br />That concludes Purchasing setup. You can now create POs.Oracallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17943004758238765111noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473892806847215313.post-44817586049817859342010-04-25T22:06:00.001-07:002010-05-10T11:06:22.000-07:00Oracle EBS 11i setup -Set of Books setupIn this post we will see how to setup a new Set of books in Oracle. We will set of a new set of books for a company called IPL for it's India operations.<br /><br />Pre-requisite for setting up Set of Books in Oracle is,<br />1. Chart of Accounts (COA) setup<br />Check out the earlier video on COA setup video. I have considered a 5 segment chart of accounts as part of our DEMO setups for a company called IPL.<br /><br />2. Calender<br /><br />3. Currency<br /><br />This is the well known 3C (chart of accounts, calender, currency) for SOB setup in Oracle. Once the above pre-requisites are setup, set of book can be defined.<br /><br />Some other key elements for setting up of SOB apart from the above are,<br /><br />a. Retained earnings account: This is the share holders / equity account. Oracle GL make necessary updates to this account whenever you do transactions in expense / income account through journals / subledgers etc. The account type for this account should be "Ownership/Stockholder's Equity"<br /><br />b. Translation Adjustment account: This is the account used by Oracle GL for any difference happen (like difference due to rounding) while you translate your account level transactions from functional Currency to any other currency to make your journal balanced at account level in your translated currency. Again the account type for hti saccount is "Ownership/Stockholder's Equity"<br /><br />Check out the following video for setting up Calender, currency and set of books,<br /><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6pVEgcoHUr8&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6pVEgcoHUr8&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>Oracallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17943004758238765111noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473892806847215313.post-4754641627694792272010-04-25T21:54:00.000-07:002010-04-25T22:00:57.086-07:00Oracle EBS 11i Setup -Chart of Accounts SetupChart of Accounts setup in Oracle financials is the most important setup. Thorough analysis, consideration must be done before finalizing the chart of accounts of any organization with inputs from finance department such as reporting requirement, level at which transaction details are required etc.<br /><br />Following video shows how to setup Chart of Accounts in Oracle EBS 11i,<br /><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3WGJqjGRQ1w&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3WGJqjGRQ1w&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>Oracallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17943004758238765111noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473892806847215313.post-7223920547277666612010-04-24T21:40:00.000-07:002010-11-04T23:53:32.497-07:00Oracle EBS 11i - New Entity SetupI have been trying to post this since long but due to current workload and bandwidth issues was not able to post this. Here I am going to explain the steps to setup a new entity / operating unit in Oracle EBS 11i. This is from my experience of setting up new books and subledger and is completely practical. I was at a client site, one of the top internet companies which has businesses spanning almost all of the countries in the world for which we had to setup GL books and subledger for the newly added business regions.<br /><br />Steps to define a New Entity in Oracle EBS 11i,<br /><br />Step 1 - Define Set of Books (SOB)<br />Before defining SOB, you have to setup followings-<br />1.1 Define "Chart of Accounts"<br />>Define "Value sets" for Accounting Segments<br />>Define "Chart of Account structure"<br />>Define "Chart of Account Segments"<br />>Define "Segment Values"<br />Check out this video for setting up Chart of Accounts,<br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3WGJqjGRQ1w&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3WGJqjGRQ1w&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br /><br />1.2 Define "Calender" for the SOB<br /><br />1.3 Define "Currency" for the SOB<br /><br />1.4 Define Set of Books (SOB)<br />Check out the following video for 1.2, 1.3, 1.4<br /><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6pVEgcoHUr8?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6pVEgcoHUr8?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br />Step 2 - Define GL responsibilities and assign following profile values,<br /> a> Assign profile "GL Set of Books Name", value: Enter the new SOB name at responsibility level<br /> b> Assign profile "HR: User Type", value:"HR User" at responsibility level<br /><br />Step 3 - Define New Legal Entity<br />2.1 Define Location for New Legal Entity<br />2.2 Define the New Legal Entity<br /><br />Step 4 - Define Opearting Unit<br /><br />Step 5 - Define Inventory Organization<br /> Define Receiving options (Pay special attention while assigning accounting code combinations)<br /><br />Step 6 - Navigate to "System Administrator" responsibility > Go to submit request screen > Run "Replicate Seed Data" request > Enter the new operating unit name as the parameter for the request<br /><br />Step 7 - Define subledger responsibilities (Setup, Transaction, Manager, Inquiry) for the new operating unit and assign following profiles at responsibility level,<br /><br /> a> "GL Set of Books Name", value: Enter the new SOB name<br /> b> "HR: User Type", value:"HR User"<br /> c> "MO: Operating Unit", value:Enter the new OU name<br /> d> "MO: Top Reporting Level", value:"Operating Unit"<br /> e> Optionally setup profile "AP: Use Invoice Batch Controls" if you want to use Invoice Batch workbench<br /> f> Optionally setup profile "Sequential Numbering"<br /><br />Step 8 - Define Cross validation rules<br /><br />Step 9 - Define Security rules and assign to newly created responsibilities<br /><br />Step 10 - Request for the new responsibilities<br /><br />Step 11 - Setup Purchasing<br /><br />Click <a href="http://oracally.blogspot.com/2010/04/oracle-ebs-11i-setup-oracle-purchasing.html">here</a> for Purchasing setup<br /><br />Step 12 - Setup Payables<br /><br />Click <a href="http://oracally.blogspot.com/2010/04/oracle-ebs-11i-setup-oracle-payables.html">here</a> for Payables setup.<br /> <br />Step 13 - Open first GL period<br /><br />Step 14 - Open first Payable period<br /><br />Step 15 - Open first Purchasing periodOracallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17943004758238765111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473892806847215313.post-57311459882335601012010-04-24T16:43:00.000-07:002010-04-24T21:30:16.566-07:00Zero Payment -PaymentsHere we will be discussing about,<br />What is "Zero Payament" payment<br />Why is "Zero Payment" payment required<br />What are the required setups for "Zero Payment" payments in Oracle payables<br />How to do "Zero Payment" payments in Oracle payables<br /><br />What is "Zero Payment" Payment?<br /><br />As the name suggests, a "Zero Payment" payment is a payment having value 0 (zero) i.e. the payment can be 0 USD / EUR / INR etc depending on the payment currency.<br /><br />Why is "Zero Payment" payment required?<br /><br />There can be various reasons to make a "Zero payment". Few possibles reasons are,<br />--Legal requirements of the country<br />There can be a legal requirements in countries (like EMEA) where business is being carried out / transactions are booked, wherein you just can not cancel an accounted invoice. To cancel such invoices you need to generate an internal DEBIT memo or CREDIT memo (for paid invoices) and then apply to the invoice which needs to be canceled. In such case the original invoice is not canceled and you are just making ZERO liability to the supplier for the invoice. By doing so, the invoice remains unpaid and also the accounting transaction does not flow through all the events like payment, cash clearing. For all invoices the transactions need to flow through all the events as mentioned above if it has not been canceled. <br />In order to acheive that you make a "Zero Payment" payment just to record the transaction. This payment would not go to the supplier.<br /><br />--Accounting segment values getting deactivated<br />If any of the charge account segment is deactivated (like cost center / natural account etc) then an accounted invoice can not be canceled and the only alternative to make the liability zero is to create a debit memo or CREDIT memo (for paid invoices) and then apply to the invoice which needs to be canceled as mentioned above.<br /><br />Below video shows,<br />--Required setup to be done in Oracle for creating "Zero Payment" payments<br />--Creating a "Zero Payment" payment<br /><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cGRt2bzgsYg&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cGRt2bzgsYg&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>Oracallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17943004758238765111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473892806847215313.post-9408803402502411762010-03-14T00:16:00.000-08:002010-11-09T00:09:38.344-08:0011i Vs R12<span style="font-family:arial;"><strong>Difference between 11i & R12 </strong><br /><br />1. Oracle Purchasing<br />a) Document Types (Setup > Purchasing > Document Types)<br />11i - The form is Oracle native form based.<br />R12 - The GUI is self-service OAF page. As shown below,</span><br /><br /><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLP5-VsjbpOSo2eKSYuCYOhuiH-b7qQYkJ2vDb5g6kSe-C3mQey9qwUgIiA4P2QWLsk40BAo40Wi65inayQjcwhon38O7ORrkjmN1vioN3ka3hoXl42mtPWYaQrJTuDZZ6b1J68hVwXjVz/s1600-h/doc+types.jpg"><img style="text-align: center; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 400px; display: block; height: 200px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448413310930320578" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLP5-VsjbpOSo2eKSYuCYOhuiH-b7qQYkJ2vDb5g6kSe-C3mQey9qwUgIiA4P2QWLsk40BAo40Wi65inayQjcwhon38O7ORrkjmN1vioN3ka3hoXl42mtPWYaQrJTuDZZ6b1J68hVwXjVz/s400/doc+types.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;">b)</span> Purchasing Options (Setup > Organizations > Purchasing Options)<br />11i - The form is Oracle native form based.<br />R12 - The GUI is self-service OAF page. As shown below,<!-- p <--> </p><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span><br /><br />c) Payables workbench is changed. In R12, now you can directly mention the PO number in the first screen itself instead of going to next screen saving 1 click compare to R11i.<br /><br />d> Buyers setup GUI is self-service page.<br />e> Financial Options:<br />--GUI is still core form.<br />--Now no need to switch responsibilities to setup multi-org financial options.<br /><br />f> Receiving Options - GUI is self-service page. No functionality change.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Arial;">No Change-</span> </strong><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;">1. Oracle Purchasing</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;">a) No change in Purchase Order entry workbench-This remains the same as in 11i.<br />b> No change in Auto-create PO<br />c> PO workbench is mostly same<br /></span>Oracallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17943004758238765111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473892806847215313.post-50561430566133433392010-03-09T20:14:00.000-08:002010-03-09T21:21:49.466-08:00R12:How MOAC enviornment is setup programmatically<em>Pre-requisites for understanding how MOAC works in R12 are (Although these are not mandatory but knowledge of these would definitely help),<br /></em><br /><strong>1. Setting ORG context prior to R12 version </strong><br />Prior to R12, if you want to set ORG context in Oracle apps on any multi org table then following need to be done,<br /><br />a. Create the table<br />b. Create a view on the table with following condition<br /><br />WHERE NVL (org_id,<br />NVL (TO_NUMBER (DECODE (SUBSTRB (USERENV ('CLIENT_INFO'), 1, 1),<br />' ', NULL,<br />SUBSTRB (USERENV ('CLIENT_INFO'), 1,<br />10)<br />)<br />),<br />-99<br />)<br />) =<br />NVL (TO_NUMBER (DECODE (SUBSTRB (USERENV ('CLIENT_INFO'), 1, 1),<br />' ', NULL,<br />SUBSTRB (USERENV ('CLIENT_INFO'), 1, 10)<br />)<br />),<br />-99<br />);<br /><br />As an example, let us consider the PO_HEADERS_ALL table. This is owned by PO schema having records for every operating unit. To implement Org security, a view has been created on top of it i.e. PO_HEADERS and is being owned by APPS schema.<br /><br />If you see the content of this view, you would see the view has been created by accessing the value of CLIENT_INFO session field value which is being set by respective applications like PO, AP using DBMS_APPLICATION_INFO.SET_CLIENT_INFO API.<br /><br /><br /><br /><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibFZfBsOss2PfICSrZNI1NhZA-EWGWmAx9ZfUTRVpPYVy3s856WZ-IZlAUcXhelQ87yi_CRn8kIvyLGUghklx0nDLAla5bsgGWY6KhzOJ8EaGIiypS19oLh2lA6Woz5lfqv8M8_a4k0-jk/s1600-h/11i.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 180px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446854279267363458" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibFZfBsOss2PfICSrZNI1NhZA-EWGWmAx9ZfUTRVpPYVy3s856WZ-IZlAUcXhelQ87yi_CRn8kIvyLGUghklx0nDLAla5bsgGWY6KhzOJ8EaGIiypS19oLh2lA6Woz5lfqv8M8_a4k0-jk/s400/11i.jpg" /></a><br />So, if you want to give the access only for US operating unit (lets assume the ORG_ID to be 100) then you set<br /><br />begin<br />dbms_application_info.set_client_info(100);<br />end;<br /><br />If you query PO_HEADERS after the above statement is executed in your session then you would see all the POs only for operating unit 100. This is to secure the data as per the user access,<br /><br />You can also use FND_CLIENT_INFO.SET_ORG_CONTEXT API to set the ORG context which ultimately uses the above to set the ORG context.<br /><br />begin<br />fnd_client_info.set_org_context(100);<br />end;<br /><br />This is how all the applications (PO, AP etc) set the CLIENT_INFO field and set the ORG_CONTEXT prior to R12.<br /><br /><br /><strong>2. RLS (Row level security)</strong></p><p>RLS feature was introduced in Oracle since Oracle 8i. The prime feature of RLS is implementing row level security while reading / inserting / deleting the data from the Database. In brief, you can use RLS to restrict data based on user permissions / privileges.<br /><br /><br />How MOAC works in R12<br />In R12, Oracle applications use RLS feature to implement MOAC.<br /><br />Now going back to our same example- PO_HEADERS_ALL table.<br />In R12 these tables are still owned by PO schema but what changed is the view now no longer exist in R12. In R12, the multi org based views have been replaced with SYNONYMS in APPS.<br />So, for PO_HEADERS_ALL you now would see PO_HEADERS synonym in APPS schema pointing to APPS.PO_HEADERS_ALL table.<br /><br />Now if you query the following in R12 APPS DB,<br /><br />SELECT * FROM DBA_POLICIES WHERE OBJECT_NAME='PO_HEADERS'<br /><br />You would see the following,<br /><br /></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXTog9vholhQgPWiwQIraJcxnTNv3fUQ-K1OlaDOn5GPtfQ-NkCeOv5nBHbIWl02pCqrQOixhASyxXPQrJY8idf29WVUPAWutUNxvvdQsDT-gQXguCHRioP_xDw7ibTngTnn4WuX-TU0n6/s1600-h/R12.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 136px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446855813484033298" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXTog9vholhQgPWiwQIraJcxnTNv3fUQ-K1OlaDOn5GPtfQ-NkCeOv5nBHbIWl02pCqrQOixhASyxXPQrJY8idf29WVUPAWutUNxvvdQsDT-gQXguCHRioP_xDw7ibTngTnn4WuX-TU0n6/s400/R12.jpg" /></a><br /><br />As seen in the picture above, whenever you query PO_HEADERS in R12, the DB is going to apply the policy defined on this synonym which in turn would call MO_GLOBAL.ORG_SECURITY API. This API returns the predicates which would be automatically applied to the query by Oracle DB.<br />If you check the content of this API, you would see that it basically prepares the where condition for the ORG_ID to which user has access to, which is being read from the TEMP table MO_GLOB_ORG_ACCESS_TMP.<br />MO_GLOBAL.INIT API is there in "prior to R12" releases but it was not being used in the RLS and there is no policy defined on the multi-org enabled tables / views.<br /><br />The temp table is populated when you set user / org context.<br /><br />Prior to R12, FND_CLIENT_INFO.SET_ORG_CONTEXT is used to set the ORG context<br />This would set the ORG Context and then the multi org related views can be accessed which would return records only for that operating unit.<br /><br /><br />But from R12, following is used to set the org context<br /></p><p>--Use FND_GLOBAL.APPS_INITIALIZE API to set the user environment<br />--Use MO_GLOBAL.INIT to populate the temp table MO_GLOB_ORG_ACCESS_TMP based on the responsibilities to which the user has access to and which would then be used by the RLS security policy.<br /></p><p>After you set these up, if you query PO_HEADERS synonym then Oracle DB would automatically add the predicate (the list of operating units to which user has access to) to the query and would only return rows for the operating units to which user has access to.<br /><br />For e.g. run the following in R12,<br />(Refer my earlier post on "how to setup MOAC in R12" to see the operating units that OPERATIONS user has access to)<br /><br />begin<br /><br />FND_GLOBAL.APPS_INITIALIZE(1318 ---user 'OPERATIONS'<br />,20639 ---responsibility "Payables Manager"<br />,200 ---Application "Oracle Payable"<br />);<br /><br />MO_GLOBAL.INIT('SQLAP');<br /><br /><br />end;<br /><br />Then query the temp table,<br />select * from MO_GLOB_ORG_ACCESS_TMP<br /><br />Now the query returns the list of operating units to which OPERATIONS user has access to. And if you query from PO_HEADERS, you would see result from these operating units.<br /><br /></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBZA4PX4b5zvw75TL8rWjrzDzfhPzT8LnwpBfrs473yNaosHcrwGd9-2r0Z40HYueV5s-lHtW63D0XPECXOteqZ7EQKYqZ1foM5jl1M12soj3Ors0lU2L7QGWXgGuD0rXM4t9IkdbCFyk2/s1600-h/query+result-1.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 304px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446854588519523682" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBZA4PX4b5zvw75TL8rWjrzDzfhPzT8LnwpBfrs473yNaosHcrwGd9-2r0Z40HYueV5s-lHtW63D0XPECXOteqZ7EQKYqZ1foM5jl1M12soj3Ors0lU2L7QGWXgGuD0rXM4t9IkdbCFyk2/s400/query+result-1.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Summary:<br />A. Oracle uses RLS to implement MOAC in R12<br />B. All multi-org tables now have synonym in APPS<br />C. The synonyms now have a policy defined which can be found in DBA_POLICIES<br />D. To setup multi-org context in R12 from the back end programmatically,<br />1. Call FND_GLOBAL.APPS_INITIALIZE<br />2. Call MO_GLOBAL.INITOracallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17943004758238765111noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473892806847215313.post-10542253868544719092010-03-08T00:10:00.001-08:002010-12-03T06:53:57.070-08:00Oracle Applications 11i: Setup Queries<span style="font-family:arial;">While doing any setup in Oracle Applications 11i, few questions always come in mind,<br /><br />--Am I doing the right setup?<br />--Is it consistent with other Operating units except few intended differences specific to this Operating unit?<br />--Does it adhere to the overall naming conventions?<br /><br />So, to address all the above questions and simplify setups in Oracle Applications 11i, I have listed some Oracle Financial and FND setup related queries. Executing these queries would most likely address the above questions and minimize human errors.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">1. Oracle Financials 11i / Set of Books Query-</span><br /><iframe src="https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=14U1ctVw_lYzii570j7b9HwXTXZ207DRC8sg4Ir3KZQ4&embedded=true"></iframe><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">2. Oracle Payables Internal Bank Setup Query-<br /></span><iframe src="https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1Qmcx07FEjVKETL9I0QilZocQbabfzDO_Xuw3qYhqsWE&embedded=true"></iframe>Oracallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17943004758238765111noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473892806847215313.post-67937652277969037002010-03-07T18:44:00.000-08:002010-03-08T23:54:29.324-08:00R12: Setting up MOAC (Multi Org Access Control) in R12<span style="font-family:arial;">Prior to R12, end users use to toggle / switch / change responsibilities in order to do transactions (like invoice / payment processing in AP) in different operating unit. This is a very time consuming and inefficient way of recording transactions when you have 100s of operating units specially Internet based organizations who have world wide operations in almost all the countries.<br /><br />To address this, a new feature in R12 has been introduced in which user can switch between operating units within a responsibility something similar to "Change Organization" feature in inventory. Prior to R12, user would have to switch responsibilities in order to enter transactions in respective operating units (tagged to the responsibility).<br /><br />To enable this feature, Oracle has provided MOAC (Multi Org Access Control) in R12 to achieve this functionality.<br />Most of the setup steps for this is similar to setting up of HR Security. So, if you know how to set HR security then setting MOAC is just a piece of cake.<br /><br />Do the following setups as part of MOAC setup-<br /><br /><strong>Step 1. Create Organization Hierarchy-<br /></strong>Navigate to Human Resource responsibility > Define Organization Hierarchy<br /><br />Create an Organization Hierarchy as shown below. Here I have named it as "XXTech Vision". This is my Org hierarchy name.<br />This has following heirarchy,<br /><br />Organization name (This would show-up all Organizations in the current business group):<br />Vision Corporation<br />--Vision Services<br />--Vision Leasing<br />--Vision Utilities<br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuoDuPcAsSDGMmuULfcuAGCoUSqChwdv1nDib61hred1ltR306D5MwCkA8Y6q4vTgLxw5IPzPca3x9_lyL0SMDH0o-uOS61FuCEf-JVeYEZLzgLyHanxqB9syzMFBoxAMY3s6iQq9X_jF2/s1600-h/Organization+Hierarchy-1.jpg"><span style="font-family:arial;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 273px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446534556139102706" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuoDuPcAsSDGMmuULfcuAGCoUSqChwdv1nDib61hred1ltR306D5MwCkA8Y6q4vTgLxw5IPzPca3x9_lyL0SMDH0o-uOS61FuCEf-JVeYEZLzgLyHanxqB9syzMFBoxAMY3s6iQq9X_jF2/s400/Organization+Hierarchy-1.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br />Once you set this up, you can see how your hierarchy looks like in the Organization Diagrammer as shown below,<br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjizsI4pbuDAmAQDYZkCeiziIupjR1MP_yFRrwIgTChoIW92D8XgFjkTRjPMEGmakvcKQV5TsswFp-6RJxWgFvC1pIUwD9Tiz9YlynKVO7MlY3-WmtVj-eqsCih7NpY-k8m4PneZhj_Mj57/s1600-h/diagrammer-1.jpg"><span style="font-family:arial;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446534767833327042" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjizsI4pbuDAmAQDYZkCeiziIupjR1MP_yFRrwIgTChoIW92D8XgFjkTRjPMEGmakvcKQV5TsswFp-6RJxWgFvC1pIUwD9Tiz9YlynKVO7MlY3-WmtVj-eqsCih7NpY-k8m4PneZhj_Mj57/s400/diagrammer-1.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br /><strong>Step 2- Create HR Security Profile</strong> as shown below (Navigation - Human Resources responsibility > Security > Profile)<br />Enter the values as shown in the below picture.<br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKIZbe0KiKPpnBU3gqX5BsNqcOiAgR7gu-Zw99ohOmasfd9xeU16BD6UjiGa9rgc7QUhdvKUlBfx_sKUfYFgabR5996QDDlAPFMYIXgvu4Ogcock6UdNfeAWgbCx-2QVZGvK3dpyI5tfW0/s1600-h/security+profile.jpg"><span style="font-family:arial;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 225px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446535768991199106" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKIZbe0KiKPpnBU3gqX5BsNqcOiAgR7gu-Zw99ohOmasfd9xeU16BD6UjiGa9rgc7QUhdvKUlBfx_sKUfYFgabR5996QDDlAPFMYIXgvu4Ogcock6UdNfeAWgbCx-2QVZGvK3dpyI5tfW0/s400/security+profile.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br /><br />Step 3- The final step of the setup is to attach the HR security profile just created to the <strong>"MO:Security Profile"</strong> profile for the responsibility to which you want to have the MOAC functionality as shown in the below picture,<br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYRLf-oZLQMT2TXxTFAd5Wu1Ll4OfRGIOznW-eJSavfPPeMcAEhShvSCabt1zhsV8OWeZVasuQ9oXlMGvd6vrkspYewo2Qk6CWDY19c0jAnv_vbuOm1TL3YwiYZoa_SlZdIBGs_eRd4kEH/s1600-h/MO-security+profile.jpg"><span style="font-family:arial;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 152px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446535071910666450" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYRLf-oZLQMT2TXxTFAd5Wu1Ll4OfRGIOznW-eJSavfPPeMcAEhShvSCabt1zhsV8OWeZVasuQ9oXlMGvd6vrkspYewo2Qk6CWDY19c0jAnv_vbuOm1TL3YwiYZoa_SlZdIBGs_eRd4kEH/s400/MO-security+profile.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br /><br /><strong>Step 4- Run "Security List Maintenance" concurrent request,<br /></strong>This process maintains the list of employees, organizations, positions, payrolls and applicants that security profile holders have access to. Schedule this request to run every night during quite hours if possible. If it is run when the users are logged in then users may experience unexpected results while doing transactions like additional employees / OUs may become visible or previously visible employees may no longer be visible for a brief period of time. Once the process completes then everything would work normal. If it does not run due to some reason then this can be manually run as shown in the picture,<br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUQP8kcqeVZ27ru_f-OQKeBghFi4f4aE_9v6JmY2Otxrfbm7zb4Xx06UqVLGWnMpJDP3YWsrrDgsG7nfpUC5i__CpBYI9GMCc2NQrwbdnSnOSneEObQhTXWDkYcry3hFSAdW1gu31AeBwo/s1600-h/security+list+maintenance.jpg"><span style="font-family:arial;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 228px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446536462034937794" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUQP8kcqeVZ27ru_f-OQKeBghFi4f4aE_9v6JmY2Otxrfbm7zb4Xx06UqVLGWnMpJDP3YWsrrDgsG7nfpUC5i__CpBYI9GMCc2NQrwbdnSnOSneEObQhTXWDkYcry3hFSAdW1gu31AeBwo/s400/security+list+maintenance.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br /><br /><strong>Step 5- Test the setup </strong><br />Now navigate to "Payables Manager" responsibility > Invoices Workbench > Click on the LOV of OU > It would show up all the organizations (setup as operating units that were part of the security profile > organization <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">hierarchy</span> as shown in the below picture,<br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHeIAMbe2DkCES8wmWVTBWlEBNpqiiCsKFIrA8kLzLtSACNSZvBdpY0HzT9Xn0BakzJu89epiAfyJ4WIm68wD1QVHkf0ZySlBqkcIjYzr2ye3JpnOUdHvRGuh26daLxKlgCl1RI37o-U5P/s1600-h/invoice+workbench.jpg"><span style="font-family:arial;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 313px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446535244152913298" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHeIAMbe2DkCES8wmWVTBWlEBNpqiiCsKFIrA8kLzLtSACNSZvBdpY0HzT9Xn0BakzJu89epiAfyJ4WIm68wD1QVHkf0ZySlBqkcIjYzr2ye3JpnOUdHvRGuh26daLxKlgCl1RI37o-U5P/s400/invoice+workbench.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br /><br /><strong>Summary: </strong><br />With this new feature in R12, it can be seen that users just need to select the operating unit within same responsibility to do the transactions without leaving the responsibility and thus tremendously improve the processing efficiency.</span>Oracallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17943004758238765111noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473892806847215313.post-60772781016921458552010-03-07T12:14:00.001-08:002010-03-10T14:15:27.412-08:00R12: Getting list of operating units user has access to in R12With the introduction of MOAC feature in R12, now user can access multiple operating units in subledgers without leaving the current responsibility. Sometimes we need to find out what operating units are accessible from a responsibility for an application (like AP, PO etc) for investigation / debugging purpose.<br /><br />I have found two ways to get those details,<br /><br />1. By setting MOAC enviornment from backend in PL/SQL and get the list of operating units from the temp table MO_GLOB_ORG_ACCESS_TMP,<br />For e.g.- If you want to see what operating units can be accessbile from OPERATIONS user through "Payables Manager" responsibility then run the below anonymous block,<br /><br /><strong>--This sets the User enviornment---</strong><br /><br />begin<br /><br />FND_GLOBAL.APPS_INITIALIZE(1318 ---user 'OPERATIONS'<br />,20639 ---responsibility "Payables Manager"<br />,200 ---Application "Oracle Payable"<br />);<br /><br />MO_GLOBAL.INIT('SQLAP'); --This will initialize MOAC for AP application<br /><br />end;<br /><br />Then querying below would give all the operating units user has access to,<br /><br />select * from MO_GLOB_ORG_ACCESS_TMP<br /><br />The downside of this script that you should have access privilege to execute FND_GLOBAL.APPS_INITIALIZE AND MO_GLOBAL.INIT<br /><br />2.<br />If you do not then alternate method is to write a query which would read HR security profile, HR Org hierarchy, FND profile etc and get you the list of OUs. Following query can be used for that which would give the list of OUs accessible from "Payables Manager" responsibility,<br /><br />SELECT distinct B.PROFILE_OPTION_VALUE,C.RESPONSIBILITY_NAME,d.SECURITY_PROFILE_NAME, d1.name ou_name <br />FROM FND_PROFILE_OPTIONS_VL A <br />, fnd_profile_option_values b <br />, fnd_responsibility_vl c <br />, per_security_profiles_v d <br />, per_organization_structures a1 <br />, PER_ORG_STRUCTURE_VERSIONS b1 <br />, per_org_structure_elements_v c1 <br />, hr_operating_units d1 <br />WHERE A.user_PROFILE_OPTION_NAME LIKE 'MO%Security%' <br />and d.ORGANIZATION_STRUCTURE_ID = a1.ORGANIZATION_STRUCTURE_ID <br />and a.PROFILE_OPTION_ID=b.PROFILE_OPTION_ID <br />and TO_NUMBER(b.LEVEL_VALUE)=c.RESPONSIBILITY_ID <br />and d.SECURITY_PROFILE_ID = b.PROFILE_OPTION_VALUE <br />AND upper(c.RESPONSIBILITY_NAME) like 'PAYABLES MANAGER' <br />and a1.ORGANIZATION_STRUCTURE_ID = b1.ORGANIZATION_STRUCTURE_ID <br />and b1.ORG_STRUCTURE_VERSION_ID= c1.ORG_STRUCTURE_VERSION_ID <br />and (d1.organization_id = c1.ORGANIZATION_ID_CHILD <br />or d1.organization_id = c1.ORGANIZATION_ID_parent) <br />UNION ALL <br />SELECT B.PROFILE_OPTION_VALUE,C.RESPONSIBILITY_NAME,d.SECURITY_PROFILE_NAME, d1.name ou_name <br />FROM FND_PROFILE_OPTIONS_VL A <br />, fnd_profile_option_values b <br />, fnd_responsibility_vl c <br />, per_security_profiles_v d <br />,PER_SECURITY_ORGANIZATIONS_V c1 <br />, hr_operating_units d1 <br />WHERE A.user_PROFILE_OPTION_NAME LIKE 'MO%Security%' <br />and a.PROFILE_OPTION_ID=b.PROFILE_OPTION_ID <br />and TO_NUMBER(b.LEVEL_VALUE)=c.RESPONSIBILITY_ID <br />and d.SECURITY_PROFILE_ID = b.PROFILE_OPTION_VALUE <br />AND upper(c.RESPONSIBILITY_NAME) like 'PAYABLES MANAGER' <br />AND c1.SECURITY_PROFILE_ID = d.SECURITY_PROFILE_ID <br />and c1.ORGANIZATION_ID = d1.ORGANIZATION_IDOracallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17943004758238765111noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473892806847215313.post-49729344095056910312010-03-03T18:06:00.000-08:002010-03-03T18:45:40.603-08:00XML Publisher error -Unable to find the published output for this requestThis is one of the most common issues when you try opening the output of an XML Publisher report output from the SRS screen.<br /><br />As shown in the below screenshots, when you try to open the XML publisher report output you get below error,<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl0h60ITe0Vc4YjKLg4txm6w4d_qkLpAfLfcqqTlvh9XAd7MyPx3IR1LdYusDDAjkXg7JDGEh2-Ue1JBIPD0YFk9BD_cDM1iDHby7A99W-cQhyphenhypheni4CHbnXezIdqpJuguliSHBuci2q0xAfu/s1600-h/error-1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 106px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl0h60ITe0Vc4YjKLg4txm6w4d_qkLpAfLfcqqTlvh9XAd7MyPx3IR1LdYusDDAjkXg7JDGEh2-Ue1JBIPD0YFk9BD_cDM1iDHby7A99W-cQhyphenhypheni4CHbnXezIdqpJuguliSHBuci2q0xAfu/s400/error-1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444601383909672450" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCc1thPZyT7vBFK3GlJ1qjvn4i0hPmq-u6O9uUZE6iLywNW3bfcpcaURNwI6fTBTwRSXZLDxymFzi4CBm6Xh-P2YKLvW-3b74R3MLxPqNzjWRMq40AzorwxFGfZwwvU7XcYcc-fY4p_TDg/s1600-h/error-2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 118px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCc1thPZyT7vBFK3GlJ1qjvn4i0hPmq-u6O9uUZE6iLywNW3bfcpcaURNwI6fTBTwRSXZLDxymFzi4CBm6Xh-P2YKLvW-3b74R3MLxPqNzjWRMq40AzorwxFGfZwwvU7XcYcc-fY4p_TDg/s400/error-2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444601537606944898" /></a><br /><br />When you see this error, check the concurrent request status.<br />There can be two possible reasons (that's what I could find yet),<br /><br />1. If the Concurrent request goes to Warning status,<br />Check the log file. You would see a message something like this,<br /><br />+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+<br />Start of log messages from FND_FILE<br />+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+<br />+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+<br />End of log messages from FND_FILE<br />+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+<br /><br /><br />+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+<br />Executing request completion options...<br /><br />+------------- 1) PUBLISH -------------+<br />Beginning post-processing of request 26431776 on node xxxxxxxxyyyyy at 02-MAR-2010 20:36:43.<br />Post-processing of request 26431776 failed at 02-MAR-2010 20:36:43 with the error message:<br />One or more post-processing actions failed. Consult the OPP service log for details.<br />+--------------------------------------+<br /><br />+------------- 2) PRINT -------------+<br />+--------------------------------------+<br /><br /><br />If this is the case then check the OPP log file located at following location in DB tier,<br /><br /><br />This happens if the XML data source and the XML Publisher template are out-of-sync i.e. if OPP does not find a perticular value in the XML data then it throws out this error. Check your template if it has all the valid XML elements in it and correct it if there is any difference.<br /><br /><br />2. Concurrent request completes normal but still there is no output and you get the above error. If this is the case then mostly the layout has not been setup properly prior to this request submission. You can see from the below screenshot, the layout has not been setup correctly. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxB2IfrKmVngbg0-dHtK7slgpiv0LpeYrUncFl800msueGk4D-zqCtEbUP4ftGze6mFtk__OJOThswD0sm9Hb3kQd9zgofTd1S-ISWnMYOxZGRJI5N9W-ORSatQZa1nr4gVKgTCBl3WDrN/s1600-h/error-4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 233px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxB2IfrKmVngbg0-dHtK7slgpiv0LpeYrUncFl800msueGk4D-zqCtEbUP4ftGze6mFtk__OJOThswD0sm9Hb3kQd9zgofTd1S-ISWnMYOxZGRJI5N9W-ORSatQZa1nr4gVKgTCBl3WDrN/s400/error-4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444603671143155986" /></a><br /><br />There is a bug in Oracle wherein even if you set the layout parameters, it does not take. If that is the case then enter the layout parameter and then just re-enter the language setting by clicking the "language" button in the SRS screen.<br />And then submit the request. Now the report should get generated and you should be able to open the output.Oracallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17943004758238765111noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473892806847215313.post-7992640848177523112010-03-01T15:29:00.000-08:002010-03-02T00:15:47.708-08:00Markview - Outbound emails not goingThere is a known issue in Markview 170 systems wherein users complain that they are not getting approval email notifications though the approval item is in the right queue and users can see if they manually login to Markview 170 in their web inbox.<br /><br />If this is the issue, then do the following,<br /><br />1. Check "170 process mail gateway" if that is running fine.<br /><br />2. If it gives error, then stop the process and then check if the test connection works by opening hte "170 mail gateway configuration" window and click on Test button. If it does not (generally happens if the DB user password was changed) then correct the setting there and then restart the process.<br /><br />This should start processing the outbound emails.<br />To check if the mail gateway is processing the email notifications or not, you may use the following query,<br /><br />select count(*)<br />from xxmv.sf_workitem_instance a<br />,xxmv.sf_queue b<br />where a.queue_id=b.queue_id<br />and b.QUEUE_NAME='New Mail'<br />and enqueued_timestamp>trunc(sysdate-20)<br />and RETRIEVED_TIMESTAMP is null<br /><br />As can be seen from the above query, the queue name for new email notifications is "New Mail". That's the queue where the mail gateway checks for new emails that need to be sent.<br />If the mail gateway processes the emails then the COUNT from the above query should be reducing and should eventually become zero after successfully processing all the outbound email notifications.<br /><br />A concurrent program can be designed and scheduled to monitor this table and if the count exceeds certain limit / thershold then send an email to a particular email address for monitoring purpose.Oracallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17943004758238765111noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473892806847215313.post-65154073013021824372010-02-23T15:57:00.001-08:002010-02-23T16:34:38.036-08:00AP Period is not closing due to following error APP-SQLAP-10304: You cannot close this period because exceptions exist.<strong>Issue: </strong>AP Period is not closing due to following error,<br />------------<br />APP-SQLAP-10304: You cannot close this period because exceptions exist.<br /><br />Plese review and resolve all exceptions that are listed in the Period Close Exceptions Report. Choose the Exceptions button to submit this report.<br /><br />-----------<br /><br />You would following message pops up when you try to close the AP period in Oracle payables.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7vbJpYPEBz2rolMmhqdPe_SMIYrrQY5JqZu0wWYBXiW2zUhXO9KG5undEuMOW5nYiMk3-opIlkkP4zid4WWrmJA9SuV_ernOCE-EHi-30OiDtQAz_A6tI8gRcsCHE0rkVe7_FoVhXmZSD/s1600-h/AP-MONTH-END-1.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441596099860443362" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 158px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7vbJpYPEBz2rolMmhqdPe_SMIYrrQY5JqZu0wWYBXiW2zUhXO9KG5undEuMOW5nYiMk3-opIlkkP4zid4WWrmJA9SuV_ernOCE-EHi-30OiDtQAz_A6tI8gRcsCHE0rkVe7_FoVhXmZSD/s400/AP-MONTH-END-1.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><strong>Overview (What Oracle checks before it closes any AP Month)</strong><br />In order for the AP period to be successfully closed, Oracle ensures that followings are met before closing AP period,<br />1. There should not be any UNACCOUNTED transactions in AP_ACCOUNTING_EVENTS_ALL table<br /><br />2. There should not be any orphan records<br /><br />3. All the transactions must be transferred to GL successfully. It checks AP_AE_LINES_ALL table to see if there is anything which have not been transferred to GL. Following query can be used to check that (#4 below addresses this if you see anything).<br />Oracle does not check if the AP transactions are successfully imported to GL or not. It just checks whether the transactions make it to the GL_INTERFACE table. Oracle would allow you to close AP period even if the transactions reach GL_INTERFACE table but fails due to some issue like GL security rule, CV rule etc. Bottom line is the AP_AE_LINES_ALL.GL_SL_LINK_ID must be pouplated with a valid GL_IMPORT_REFERENCES.GL_SL_LINK_ID. If it finds then Oracle would allow you to close the period.<br /><br />select e.EVENT_TYPE_CODE<br />,h.accounting_date<br />, g.concatenated_segments<br />, l.ae_line_type_code<br />, l.currency_code<br />, l.entered_dr<br />, l.entered_cr<br />,l.CREATION_DATE accounting_creation_date<br />,l.reference5 invoice_number<br />,e.ORG_ID||'-'||k.name<br /> from ap_accounting_events_all e,<br /> ap_ae_lines_all l,<br /> ap_ae_headers_all h,<br /> gl_code_combinations_kfv g,<br /> hr_operating_units k<br /> where 1 =1 <br /> and g.CODE_COMBINATION_ID = L.CODE_COMBINATION_ID<br /> and e.accounting_event_id = h.accounting_event_id<br /> and h.ae_header_id = l.ae_header_id<br /> AND L.GL_SL_LINK_ID IS NULL<br /> AND h.period_name= '&period_name'<br /> and h.GL_TRANSFER_FLAG='E'<br /> and k.organization_id=e.org_id<br /><br /><strong>Reason:</strong><br />When you see this message you must check followings,<br />1. Any orphan record exist or not (check following post)<br />http://oracally.blogspot.com/2010/01/oracle-ap-orphan-record-issue.html<br /><br />2. Any unaccounted AP transactions exist (check following post)<br />http://oracally.blogspot.com/2009/11/oracle-payables-month-end-reports.html<br /><br />3. Any transactions with code_combination_id=-1 in AP_AE_LINES_ALL table<br />http://oracally.blogspot.com/2010/01/1-issue-apaelinesall-table-contains.html<br /><br />4. Any stuck transactions in AP_AE_LINES_ALL table which are not able to be transferred to Oracle GL<br /><br />In this post we will be discussing on #4.<br />When you see the above message, do the followings,<br /><br />Run "Payables Transfer to GL" process > view the output file > You should see transactions stuck in the AP_AE_LINES_ALL and in the output file you should see message like "Inactive" or "Disabled" or "Invalid" or "Post"<br /><br />You would see the output like this (here the exception is "Inactive"),<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4Y8Js1LajuV13SyfJ6Oxqz-6l9_fnbL7SHMLaL_VEjC8ZMuZ9lNIYXdyjuZq5PXjVERwgg5iM77eL-3nynnRjt51tTI288K8euc6R7EDFs-5qjxpWF4BXoyI-AxdLHmPO7Bhlr-cMAl5i/s1600-h/AP-MONTH-END-2.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4Y8Js1LajuV13SyfJ6Oxqz-6l9_fnbL7SHMLaL_VEjC8ZMuZ9lNIYXdyjuZq5PXjVERwgg5iM77eL-3nynnRjt51tTI288K8euc6R7EDFs-5qjxpWF4BXoyI-AxdLHmPO7Bhlr-cMAl5i/s400/AP-MONTH-END-2.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441596522504065650" /></a><br /><br /><strong>Exception and their fixes have been listed below,</strong><br /><br /><strong>1. If you see "Disabled" then,</strong><br />Run a query on table GL_CODE_COMBINATIONS to see if the complete code combination is enabled.<br />You shuld check GL_CODE_COMBINATIONS.ENABLED_FLAG column for the gl string.<br /><br />Run a query to check FND_FLEX_VALUES_VL.ENABLED_FLAG column for the account to see if the account is valid.<br />If the above is disabled then enable them and run the "Payables Transfer to GL" process.<br />This should transfer the transactions to GL successfully and user should be able to close the AP period.<br /><br /><strong>2. If you see "Invalid" then,</strong><br />The code combination string used is not valid and would not exist in GL_CODE_COMBINATIONS table or the account used is not valid.<br />To check code combination string -Check GL_CODE_COMBINATIONS table<br />To check account -Check FND_FLEX_VALUES for the account value set (check your setup for the value set used for natural account)<br /><br />Correct the accounting in the invoice > run Payables Accounting process> run "Payables Transfer to GL" process.<br />This should transfer the transactions to GL successfully and user should be able to close the AP period.<br /><br /><strong>3. If you see "Post" then,</strong><br />The code combination string used is not allowed for detail posting or the natural account does not have posting allowed<br />For the GL string check in table -GL_CODE_COMBINATIONS.DETAIL_POSTING_ALLOWED_FLAG<br />For the natural account check in the front end in APPS in the value set for natural account<br /><br />Either correct the setup in GL or correct the accounting in the invoice > Run "Payables Accounting" process ><br />run Payables Accounting process> run "Payables Transfer to GL" process.<br />This should transfer the transactions to GL successfully and user should be able to close the AP period.<br /><br /><strong>4. If you see "Inactive" like shown in the screenshot above-</strong><br />This happens if the account used in the GL string / GL string itself has a START_ACTIVE_DATE later than the AP_ACCOUNTING_EVENTS_ALL.ACCOUNTING_DATE for the related transactions. You may use the following queries to see if that is the case,<br /><br />To check if GL string has later start date than AP Accounting date. If the following query returns any record then you have to correct the GL string start date,<br /><br />select e.EVENT_TYPE_CODE<br />,h.accounting_date<br />, g.concatenated_segments<br />,g.START_DATE_ACTIVE gl_string_start_date<br />, l.ae_line_type_code<br />, l.currency_code<br />, l.entered_dr<br />, l.entered_cr<br />,l.CREATION_DATE accounting_creation_date<br />,l.reference5 invoice_number<br />,e.ORG_ID||'-'||k.name<br /> from ap_accounting_events_all e,<br /> ap_ae_lines_all l,<br /> ap_ae_headers_all h,<br /> gl_code_combinations_kfv g,<br /> hr_operating_units k<br /> where 1 =1 <br /> and g.CODE_COMBINATION_ID = L.CODE_COMBINATION_ID<br /> and e.accounting_event_id = h.accounting_event_id<br /> and h.ae_header_id = l.ae_header_id<br /> AND L.GL_SL_LINK_ID IS NULL<br /> AND h.period_name= '&period_name'<br /> and h.GL_TRANSFER_FLAG='E'<br /> and k.organization_id=e.org_id<br /> and e.ACCOUNTING_DATE<g.START_DATE_ACTIVE<br /><br />Similarly find out if natural account start date is later than the AP accounting date.<br /><br />If you find any such transactions from the above query then the transactions would get stuck in the subledger accounting tables and would not go to GL and the "Payables transfer to GL" would show the output as shown above.<br /><br />To fix this, update the natural account in the Account flex valueset to have the start date active earlier than the AP_ACCOUNTING_EVENTS_ALL.ACCOUNTING_DATE.<br /><br />Also check the GL_CODE_COMBINATIONS.START_DATE_ACTIVE value for the GL string. That should be earlier than the AP_ACCOUNTING_EVENTS_ALL.ACCOUNTING_DATE.<br />After doing that run the "Payables Transfer to GL" process.<br />This should transfer the transactions to GL successfully and user should be able to close the AP period.Oracallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17943004758238765111noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473892806847215313.post-70042594094964796302010-02-13T16:03:00.000-08:002010-02-18T00:26:19.995-08:00Designing a Check using XML PublisherThis post is in-process, I would be putting the video for this soon. Please revisit this blog in couple of days. Thanks for your patience.<br /><br />Oracle applications R12 has payables check printing using Oracle XML Publisher. But in 11i the check printing program uses Oracle report writer for check.<br /><br />Here I would be explaining how to design a check using XML publisher. This is a live version of check that organizations use to pay suppliers.<br />I have developed a complete solution for this including,<br /><br />Check design (.rtf file) using XML desktop component plugin to MS Word<br />--Program to generate the XML data source<br />--All the necessary Oracle applications registration including registration using XML Publisher Administrator responsibility<br /><br />For the complete solution including source code and other documentation, please contact me through this blog via posting a comment and I would provide the same on need by basis.<br /><br />Thanks,Oracallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17943004758238765111noreply@blogger.com64tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473892806847215313.post-51424559902350933412010-02-13T16:01:00.001-08:002010-02-18T00:13:14.089-08:00XML Publisher Tutorial-In this post I would explain how to design report using XML publisher. I have created two videos for this explaining the steps to create report using XML publisher.<br /><br />Video 1- This explains followings,<br /><ul><li>PL/SQL program to generate the XML data source</li><li>Concurrent program registration in Oracle apps</li><li>Validating the XML data generated</li><li>Registering XML Data definition (linking the concurrent program)</li></ul><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cpS2DK_4p1I&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cpS2DK_4p1I&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />Video 2-<br /><ul><li>Template creation (.rtf file)</li><li>Validating the template</li><li>Template registration in Template manager in XML Publisher Administrator responsibility</li><li>Linking XML definition with Template</li><li>Finally Running the concurrent request to generate report output in PDF format<br /></li></ul><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/G3wfbXnyQcc&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/G3wfbXnyQcc&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />PL/SQL Procedure-<br />You can compile the procedure at below location in APPS schema in Oracle Apps to try this tutorial.<br /><br /><a href="https://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddrd94hj_0g3jktphn" ><font color="red">Click here for the code</font></a>Oracallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17943004758238765111noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473892806847215313.post-71179603964475089052010-02-11T01:41:00.001-08:002010-03-04T17:18:57.508-08:00Oracle XML Publisher -Designing and development of supplier checkI have shown here the complete design and development of Supplier check using Oracle XML publisher. I have the complete kit for this which includes,<br /><br />--Concurrent program LDT file<br />--Check template (.rtf)<br />--DB package<br />--Configuration of report in XML Publisher Administrator responsibility<br /><br />This would definitely reduce development time if you are planning to build this on your own.<br /><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JT5QsrN7io4&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JT5QsrN7io4&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/PHV3B6oqmfM&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/PHV3B6oqmfM&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>Oracallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17943004758238765111noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473892806847215313.post-64582760296419556952010-02-10T19:45:00.000-08:002010-02-10T20:11:40.161-08:00How to clear web cache in Oracle applicationsWhenever there is anything added/changed to any OA component (PG, RG etc) / BC4J components (VO / EO / AMetc), Controller classes, the Apache server cache needs to be cleared so that the changes can be seen.<br /><br />There are two ways to clear the web cache in Oracle Apache,<br /><br />1. Bounce Apache (You can refer the following article in this blog to do that)<br />http://oracally.blogspot.com/2010/01/startingstopping-apache-in-oracle.html<br /><br />2. Web cache can be cleared without bouncing Apache. To do that, do the following,<br /><br />Get "Functional Administrator" responsibility>Click on "Functional Administrator" responsibility<br />Following screen would come up.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk-LwBWtQMpItUo5l98byYxvgy3SKu-Qfbh29RzDQdyBoyuT_Y_Orj13eenWPyXKAQvm8wfrwmxVZCnEa_QSUera3QAd2GCTP0RTtk11HxwSB2UMxPLZNxw3WjEFQiyxVmJRCtVf9Xlc2J/s1600-h/FA-1.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 193px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk-LwBWtQMpItUo5l98byYxvgy3SKu-Qfbh29RzDQdyBoyuT_Y_Orj13eenWPyXKAQvm8wfrwmxVZCnEa_QSUera3QAd2GCTP0RTtk11HxwSB2UMxPLZNxw3WjEFQiyxVmJRCtVf9Xlc2J/s400/FA-1.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436831632723671618" /></a><br /><br /><br />Click on "Core Services" tab> Click "Caching Framework" menu > Click "Global Configurations"> Following screen would come up.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0B0Yi6G8ufL3vd3eh6zXdekY7OvABg_faiz8xmPNFerZSvoDba7jrY2jUWUsHz88fU1-U-3P8Wt9RFFdNjLehxbViXlQJUf7b5DhnkPaDesdA4_sg-KuhyznSBEyLh-ju6mAlCzqbhw6V/s1600-h/FA-2.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 139px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0B0Yi6G8ufL3vd3eh6zXdekY7OvABg_faiz8xmPNFerZSvoDba7jrY2jUWUsHz88fU1-U-3P8Wt9RFFdNjLehxbViXlQJUf7b5DhnkPaDesdA4_sg-KuhyznSBEyLh-ju6mAlCzqbhw6V/s400/FA-2.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436831792404364530" /></a><br /><br /><br />Click on "Clear all Cache" button which would prompt you to confirm> Click yes to clear all cache.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Note: Clearing cache would impact performance because server needs to cache any page opened after this.</span>Oracallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17943004758238765111noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473892806847215313.post-36698961153714633402010-02-07T23:42:00.000-08:002010-02-07T23:57:00.396-08:00Object Version Number in Oracle Applications<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Oracle database tables usually contain a column known as Object Version number (OVN).</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Here is its use .</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This column is used to control the update patterns of a tuple. (row in the database table ).</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Once the row is inserted in the table the OVN is 1. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">When there is an update on the same record then it checks the value of OVN. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">If the OVN is same then it commits the changes to the database and increments the value of OVN to the next number . </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Some other sources when trying to update the same row finds the change in OVN and the system rejects it advises to requery the record .</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small; ">This feature is absolutely helpful when there are multiple updates and only 1 update is allowed at a time .</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Even the APIs use this as a parameter: </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">p_object version_number.<br /></span><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><br /></span></div>Orafillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04692062458297881247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473892806847215313.post-74677385464605357642010-02-07T23:11:00.000-08:002010-02-10T18:08:14.763-08:00Object Version Number in Oracle ApplicationsOracle Applications tables usually contain a column known as Object Version number (OVN).<div>Here is its use .</div><div><br /></div><div>This column is used to track the changes of a tuple. (row in the database table )</div><div><br /></div>Orafillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04692062458297881247noreply@blogger.com1