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Table of contents

1. How to register tables and columns in aol (application object library)? ............................................................. 2

2. What is flexfield? ................................................................................................................................................................... 2

3. What are user exits and what are different types of user exits in oracle apps ? ............................................. 3

4. What is revaluation in general ledger ............................................................................................................................. 4

5. What can we find template.fmb file ? ............................................................................................................................ 5

6. What are different types of journal entries in oracle apps? .................................................................................... 5

7. What is the difference between org_id and organization_id? ................................................................................ 6

8. How to submit concurrent program through pl/sql? ................................................................................................. 6

9. What are the mandatory parameters in oracle apps reports? ................................................................................ 7

10. What is visual attributes? ................................................................................................................................................. 8

11. What is multiple organization technical architecture? ............................................................................................ 8

12. Why we enable allow dynamic inserts and what is the purpose? ....................................................................... 9

13. What are the mandatory user exits in oracle apps reports? ................................................................................. 9

14. How to display custom error message in oracle report when any run time error occurs? ......................... 9

15. When form builder open which trigger will fire first and last? ........................................................................... 10

16. What is the function of token in concurrent program window? ........................................................................ 10

17. If the valueset is of type table then how many tables can we attach in the valueset ? ........................... 11

18. What is set of books? What are the four conditions when you change your set of books? ..................... 11

19. What is an invoice? How many types of invoices are there in ap and ar? ..................................................... 12

20. What are different period types? ................................................................................................................................. 12

21. How many flexfields are there in oracle receivables? What are they? ............................................................ 13

22. What is data migration? What is data conversion? What is the difference between both? ..................... 13

23. What is an api & what is the sequence of events that happens after calling api ? ..................................... 14

24. Suppose if there are 100 rows and you need to retrieve one particular row without using where

clause? ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 14

25. What is meant by lot and serial controlled item? ................................................................................................... 15

Additional Resources ............................................................................................................................................................... 16


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1. How to register tables and columns in AOL (Application Object Library)?

Answer contributed by: Nidhi Gupta, Srihari and others

Flexfields and Oracle Alert are the two features that require custom tables to be registered in

Oracle Applications (Application Object Library) before they can be used. If you are planning to

use custom tables either in Alerts or in Flexfields, you need register them.

Custom application tables can be registered by using the AD_DD PL/SQL Package. The

following method describe how you can register the tables.

SQL> EXEC AD_DD.REGISTER_TABLE (SQLGL, EXAM,T)

Where SQLGL is application short name EXAM is the table name T stands for Transaction Data

SQL> EXEC AD_DD.REGISTER_COLUMN (SQLGL, EXAM,SNO, 1, NUMBER, 5, N, Y); EXAM Table Name SNO Column Name 1 Sequence one or column one NUMBER Number Data type 5 Size N Null able Y Translate (Y/N)

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2. What is FlexField?

Answer contributed by: abedin, ashok, swarnalathareddy and others

A flexfield is a database field that has flexibility built into it so that users can define reporting

structures (without use programming) that are relevant to their specific organizations

Flexfield have flexible structure for storing information. Like Company, Cost Center, and

Account. They also give you highly adaptable Structure for storing customized information in

Oracle. A Flexfield is used to capture information about Your organization.


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A flex field is a field made up of subfields, or segments. A flex field appears on your form as a

popup window that contains a prompt for each segment. Each segment has a name and a set

of valid values.

There are 2 types of flexfields :

1.Key flexfield (KFF)

2.Descriptive flexfield.(DFF)

Key flexfield is a mandatory field whereas descriptive flexfield is an optional one where in we

can store extra information about the key.


3. What are User Exits and what are different types of User Exits in Oracle Apps ?

Answer contributed by: Bonthu N Reddy, srikanth.kotipalli

A user exit is a C subroutine written by you and called by Oracle Forms to do special-purpose

processing. You can embed SQL statements and PL/SQL blocks in your user exit, then

precompile it as you would a host program.

User_Exit is used to pass control from one oracle products to another. In Oracle Apps we use

user_exit in before_report trigger to establish link between the report and apps environment

that is we use 'FND SRWINIT' for the apps initialization for the report.

Types of User Exists in Oracle Apps

FND SRWINIT

FND SRWEXIT

FND FORMAT_CURRENCY

FND FLEXIDVAL


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FND FLEXSQL FND SRWINIT

FND SRWEXIT

FND FORMAT_CURRENCY

FND FLEXIDVAL

FND FLEXSQL


4. What is revaluation in general ledger

Answer contributed by: shahed mohiuddin, Bonthu N Reddy and others

Revaluation is required when you are dealing with the foreign client. The process involves

revaluating the foreign currency journal into the functional currency. In a nutshell revaluation

means managing the gains and losses that arises due to exchange rate fluctuation.

Revaluation is one of the multicurrency tools of Oracle Application E-business suite, others like

translation, consolidation and multiple Reporting Currency (MRC).

Revaluation Launches a process that revalues the functional currency equivalent balances for

the accounts and currencies you select, using the appropriate current market rate for each

currency, Resulting gain or loss amounts are posted to the gain / loss or cumulative translation

adjustment accounts you specify and balanced by balance segment.



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5. What can we find TEMPLATE.FMB file ?

Answer contributed by: Sagar and others

Template.fmb file can be found in AU_TOP resource directory. This file contains all the Common

characteristics of forms and also contains different libraries like CUSTOM.pll, APPCORE,

APPCOREE2, FNDSQF, JE, JL, JA, VERT, GLOBE etc.. In this FMB all the Standard Libraries are

available for APPS like Menu key.

Template.fmb file contains different property classes for all the objects. Template.fmb file can

be used for developing the new form.


6. What are different types of Journal Entries in Oracle Apps?

Answer contributed by: Krishna and others

There are total 6 Types of Journals

1. Functional Journals, Where functional currency will be used.

2. Foreign Currency journals, where Foreign currency will be used.

3. Reversal Journals, this will be used to Reverse the Mistaken journals to balance the

Balances of A/c's

4. Suspense Journals, This will be used to find variants in A/c to settle those variants.

5. Recurring Transaction Journal: Where the transaction happens periodically those

transaction will come under Recurring Journals, as per the transaction again this

Recurring Journal will be divided into 3 types.


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a. Standard Recurring Journal. where there is no change in amount periodically Ex:

Rents.

b. Skeleton Recurring Journals: where the transaction takes place periodically but

the amount varies those are come under Skeleton Recurring journals. Ex: Power

bills, Phone bills.. Etc...

c. Formula Recurring Journals, which requires formula to calculate. Ex: Dep

calculation on loans and all..

6. Tax Journals: where Tax record should be mentioned is come under Tax Journals.


7. What is the difference between org_id and organization_id?

Answer contributed by: Hari and others

org_id is a unique id for operating unit level and organization_id is an ID at inventory level

which is under operating unit in multi-organization setup.


8. How to submit concurrent program through PL/SQL?

Answer contributed by: Vijayveer Singh, Junaid Usman and others

The below procedure will submit the request from the back end where application is Short

name of application under which the program is registered program is concurrent program

name for which the request has to be submitted


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declare

conc_id number(10);

begin

FND_GLOBAL.APPS_INITIALIZE (user_id,resp_id, resp_appl_id);

conc_id:=submit_request('application','program');

dbms_output.put_line(conc_id);

end;

The above program will print the Concurrent request ID.

DECLARE

l_request_id NUMBER(30);

begin

FND_GLOBAL.APPS_INITIALIZE(user_id => 7938, resp_id => 52342,

resp_appl_id => 660);

l_request_id := FND_REQUEST.SUBMIT_REQUEST(

application =>'ONT',

program =>'test_report2',

description => 'Concurrent Test Report2',

start_time => SYSDATE

);

DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(l_request_id);

commit;

end;


9. What are the mandatory parameters in Oracle Apps Reports?

Answer contributed by: Saravan Reddy and others

p_conc_request_id

p_conc_request_id this is system parameter captures user concurrent program request id from

SRS window



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10. What is Visual Attributes?

Answer contributed by purush_me2

Visual attributes are the font, color, and pattern properties that you set for form and menu

objects that appear in your application's interface.


11. What is Multiple Organization technical architecture?

Answer contributed by: Mohammed Abdul Rahman and others

Before multiple organization architecture existed, we could have only one business group, set of

books, legal entity, operating unit in one installation of oracle E-business suite, and now with

the multi organisation structure in place, we can have multiple business groups, set of books,

legal entity and operating unit and the best part is once these are set up intercompany

accounting is automatically taken care of, say for example I have Two inventory organisation,

and these use a common set of books(to start with) , now if we have sales order on one

inventory organisation A1 and if that item is not available in A1, and we have inventory for the

item in Inventory org A2, we need to take the order in A1 as internal order and run the order

import concurrent program and for the item in inventory A1(org assignment) we need to set up

the source(purchase tab) as inventory organisation A2,and also specify shipping network

between A1 and A2, and once we have run the order import program and Oracle applications

now imports the order to organisation A2, with the ship to address as A1 location. and after

you perform pick release and pick confirm process, and run auto invoice in A2, it automatically

sends invoice to inventory organisation A1 and now we can receive the item in Inventory

organisation A1 from organisation A2.

All transactions are taken care of, courtesy multi organisation structure.



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12. Why we enable Allow Dynamic Inserts and what is the purpose?

Answer contributed by: Murari and others

If you allow dynamic inserts when you set up your key flexfield, a user can enter a new

combination of segment values using the flexfield window from a foreign key form.

Dynamic insertion used to create the code combinations at run time.


13. What are the mandatory user exits in Oracle Apps Reports?

Answer contributed by: Harishkrishnagowda and others

There are no mandatory User exits in Oracle application Reports.

But for to use multi-org tables better we use Exits

SRW.USER_EXIT( 'FND SRWINIT') use this before report form which will initiate all profile

values in report

SRW.USER_EXIT( 'FND SRWEXIT' ) use this after report form.


14. How to display custom error message in Oracle Report when any run time error occurs?

Answer contributed by: dinesh upadhyay

srw.message(Your Custom Message);



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15. When form builder open which trigger will fire first and last?

Answer contributed by: shravanamsharat and others

When first open the form,the first trigger going to be fired is PRE-FORM TRIGGER and last

trigger is POST-FORM TRIGGER


16. What is the function of TOKEN in concurrent program window?

Answer contributed by: rakhi C and others

TOKEN is an Interface between Concurrent Program and Report builder. This will map the

concurrent program parameter values to the report builder parameters(User and System

parameters).

Tokens are case sensitive. So, it should be in same case as given in report builder.

We can also change the sequence in which parameters are specified in concurrent program but

Parameters in concurrent prog for Pl/SQL Procedure are not case sensitive and there sequence

should be same as that in Pl/SQL procedure.



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17. If the valueset is of type TABLE then how many tables can we attach in the valueset ?

Answer contributed by: sagar and others

You can assign only one table for Table Valueset. However, the where condition cam depend

any number of table valuesets.


18. What is Set of Books? What are the four conditions when you change your Set of Books?

Answer contributed by: d_avi123, and others

Set of Books (SOB) are the legal entities, used to define the profiles for a responsibility.

For defining the SOB, you need 4 conditions.

1. Chart of Accounts

2. Calendar

3. Currency

4. Retained Earnings (Mandatory).



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19. What is an Invoice? How many types of invoices are there in AP and AR?

Answer contributed by: Syed, Divya and others

A invoice is a Document created whenever a product or service are sold. And if the sale is made

on credit the invoice remains open in the Receivables Module utill the Funds for it are received.

And once the Funds are received the invoice is closed with the receipt.

There are 9 types of Invoices in AP : Standard, Credit Memo, Debit Memo, Prepayment,

Withholding Tax, Mixed Invoice, Expense Report, PO default and QuickMatch.

There are 6 types of Invoice in AR : Invoice, Credit Memo, Debit Memo, Chargeback, Deposit

and Guarantee.


20. What are different period types?

Answer contributed by: Dharmesh Shah and others

Period Types can be Month Week Period Quarter or Year. In terms of module there is cost

periods, AR, AP, GL and Purchasing Periods. User defined periods can also be used.



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21. How many Flexfields are there in Oracle Receivables? What are they?

Answer contributed by: and others

There are Two key flexfield in receivable

1. Location flexfield

2. Territory flexfield.


22. What is Data Migration? What is Data Conversion? What is the difference between both?

Answer contributed by: Andy Noble and others

Data Migration is the one off PROCESS of moving data from one system to another, whether

that be an upgrade or from legacy.

Data Conversion is a step in the data migration process that involves a some form of

transformation of the data from the source structure to the target structure.

Other possible steps in the Data Migration process are

Data Extraction - Taking data out of the source system

Data Cleaning - removing incorrect/invalid data

Data Translation - translating data elements from one value to another

Data Conversion - transformation of the data from the source structure to the target structure.


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Data Validating - Ensuring the new data is consistent with itself and any existing data in the

target system

Data Loading - Putting the new data in to the target system.


23. What is an API & what is the sequence of events that happens after calling API ?

Answer contributed by: trraka, Sateesh talanki and others

API stands for Application Programmers Interface. API is used to Import Business Objects from

Legacy to The Apps Database.

When we call an API first of all it will check the validations for the data(validations you can see

in the API) that you are inserted through API, if the validations are successful then it will insert

data into the base tables.


24. Suppose if there are 100 rows and you need to retrieve one particular row without using where clause?

Answer contributed by: ptmich and others

You use rownum as shown below or use WHERE Clause whose main purpose is to filter the

records based on certain conditions.

SELECT rownum=1 FROM table;



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25. What is meant by Lot and Serial controlled item?

Answer contributed by: priya and others

Serial controlled means a serial number is associated to each piece of the item. Attribue1 in

table mtl_system_items defines if the item is serial controlled.

Lot contains multiple Items, so that particular lot have some details.

Serial number means every item in a lot have serial number details.


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