Basics about Profile Options

Profile Options are like Global Variables for Oracle Applications. They provide flexibility to Applications and how they work.

There are 2 types of Profile Options

1    1. System Profile Options

      2. User Profile Options

When logged in as System Administrator, the difference between System Profile and Personal Profile are to whom you are making the changes for.

To Navigate to System Profiles
System Administrator à Profile à System

From the System Profile screen, you are making changes to the profile options at any level including personal/user

From the User Profile Screen, you are making changes to the profile option values for yourself /user(who logged in). To navigate to Personal Profile:
System Administrator --> Profile --> Personal

User Profile Option is also available for all the users through Edit à Preferences à Profiles

Oracle Data Security and its components

Data Security: Coordinating with Function Security, Data Security provides additional security on the data. It lets the administrators decide what are all the actions that users can perform on the data.

Data Security Policies can reflect access to 
a. All Instances : All instances of an object represents that all rows in the database related to that object. If you consider Purchase Order (PO) as an object and All Instances of PO means all the Purchase Orders in the database. 
b. Instance Set: Instance set of an object represents a set of the related instances of an object. In our Purchase Order as an object example, a set of Blanket Purchase Orders represent a set of Instances of the PO. 
c. A Specific Instance: This generally represents a single row in the database. It is usually identified by a Primary Key value for the object(Ex: PO Header Id)

How to see Account Generator Workflows in Status Monitor of Workflow Administrator

By default, Oracle Account Generator Workflows does not show up in the Workflow Status Monitor screen of Workflow Administrator. To be able to see them in the status monitor, couple of profile options should be enabled to “Yes”.

           1. PO: Set Debug Workflow ON

           2. Account Generator:Run in Debug Mode

How to get a Total Amount on a Standard Purchase Order

Oracle provides couple of API's to get the Total Amount on a Standard Purchase Order. Using this API, you don't have to worry about the calculation of the Quantity x Unit Price and what needs to be excluded from the calculation.

To get the Total Amount of the current revision of the Standard Purchase Order
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DECLARE
  l_total  NUMBER := 0;
BEGIN
  l_total := po_core_s.get_total('H', :p_po_header_id);
  dbms_output.put_line('PO Total Amount:'||l_total);
END;
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To get the Total Amount of any previous revisions of the Standard Purchase Order, use the following API.

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DECLARE
  l_total   NUMBER := 0;
BEGIN
l_total := po_core_s.get_archive_total_for_any_rev
                     (:p_po_header_id,-- PO Header Id

                      'H',            -- Standard Header
                      'PO',           -- Document Type
                      'STANDARD',     -- Document Sub Type
                      0,              -- Revision Num
                      'Y');           -- Base Currency
dbms_output.put_line('PO Total Amount:'||l_total);
END;
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FND_REQUEST.ADD_LAYOUT for Setting Layout options for a Concurrent Request

Using FND_REQUEST.SUBMIT_REQUEST, Concurrent Request can only be submitted as a request and any layout options or print options cannot be added to the request. To be able to set the layout options for a request a separate function FND_REQUEST.ADD_LAYOUT needs to be called before calling the SUBMIT_REQUEST. This will be useful while calling a XML Publisher Report Concurrent Program is being submitted from another Program.

fnd_request.add_layout (template_appl_name   => 'Template Application',
                                             template_code        => 'Template Code',
                                             template_language    => 'en', --Use language from                   template definition
                                             template_territory   => 'US', --Use territory from template definition
                                             output_format        => 'PDF' --Use output format from template definition
                                            );