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Create a Release from a Blanket Purchase Agreement
A Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) is created between a customer and a supplier when the customer identifies the supplier, the item(s) and the quantity. This is an agreement from customer with the...
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Oracle tables that store patch information
This article discusses how to check the patching level of an Oracle Apps instance. For resolving certain issues in seeded functionality, Oracle suggests a patch. Oracle has suggested Patch 5087017 in...
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How to send transaction attachments via workflow notification
Documents can be attached to many transactions in Oracle. Many a times these transactions need to be approved by someone within the organization before the transaction can be closed. The approval...
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Set Vacation rules or Worklist access to other users for notification delegation
If a manager goes on leave then he/she would need to ensure that his/her approval is taken care of by a delegated employee. The manager can either Set a vacation rule Set his/her Worklist Access for...
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Employee Interface/Conversion
This is an example of employee interface. The stub code is given below and can be used for both interfaces as well as conversions. The API that creates perons is given in the first step. These persons...
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How to use folder forms in Oracle
Oracle has provided Folder forms for ease of use. Oracle users can use folders to set the look and feel as per their need and comfort. They can also set folders to query data based on certain criteria....
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How to administer folders in Oracle Apps
In a previous article we discussed about how to use folder forms. In this article we shall discuss how the all folders can be administered. Open the Folder administration form Responsibility: System...
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Profile options access levels
Profile options can be set at the following levels Site Application Responsibility User The profile options can be set to be used only at certain levels, say only at Site level. Amongst these levels...
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Supplier & Supplier Sites Interface/Conversion
In this article we shall discuss how to interface Supplier and Supplier Sites into Oracle using Open Interface tables and APIs. Open Interface method Application: Payables Tables used: AP_SUPPLIERS_INT...
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Restrict Profile options values to a list
You can restrict the values that can be entered into the profile option by providing a SQL statement. This will ensure that the values are selected from a LOV only. The SQL statement has to be in a...
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How to use Contracts in Oracle Purchasing
This article illustrates how to use Contracts in Oracle Purchasing. Login to Oracle as a buyer and go to a Purchasing responsibility Navigation: Purchase Orders > Purchase Order Summary Click on New...
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SQL for Position Hierarchy
The following SQL will provide the list of employees in a Position hierarchy starting from an employee’s position. We need to feed the query with The hierarchy name as it is defined in Oracle. It could...
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SQL to get the status of all expense reports
The following SQL provides a list of all expense reports. This report is essentially for auditors and administrators to find out how many reports are pending with manager or auditor. The script takes 2...
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HRMS Batch Element Entry process
Every month some employees might receive special payment, like an advance or bonus or an incentive, or for special recovery, like a loan or some deductions have to be made for a few months, etc. If we...
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Points to keep in mind while developing Oracle Apps forms
While developing a custom form in Oracle sometimes a developer might tend to forget some simple points which can eat a lot of his/her time. I have noted down the points for which I did not find on...
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PL/SQL to execute Workflow Background Process
The workflow background process can be executed from PL/SQL just like any concurrent program. The code is given below. After execution you will get the following output If you check the requests in...
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How to check the type of Account in the Accounting Flexfield
To check the type of a segment and/or the type of accounting combination you can go to the following forms. Responsibility: General Ledger SuperUser Navigation: Setup > Financials > Flexfields...
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How to add links on Oracle Apps OAF menus
In previous articles I have talked about OAF page personalizations to add buttons, links, etc. When we need to add a link on the OAF page containers/regions we need to follow the personalization...
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Batch Element Entry interface automation
In the previous article we talked about the process of loading BEE values into Oracle from the front end forms. The manual entry on the form takes the maximum time. If instead of the manual form entry...
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Procure To Pay (P2P) Process flow
The P2P or Procure To Pay cycle is vital to an organization as in this process the organization buys and received goods or services from its vendors and makes necessary payments. The P2P cycle...
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