How to Enable EIT in Self Service and in Core HR

Extra Information Types (EITs) are a type of descriptive flex-field that help us to configure and store the extra information.Unlike the descriptive flexfield, EITs are child entities with separate tables to hold the information.It means one can store multiple instances of  an EIT for each main record.
Here we will discuss about how to create an EIT and enable in Self-Service.
Basic Requirement  
Our basic requirement is to  create an EIT (person) with the following editable field.

1. Full Name                        --- Mandatory Free text field
2. Effective Date                   ---Mandatory Date field
3. Amount                           --- Mandatory Numeric field
4. Closed(Y/N)                    ---  Mandatory Field with Y/N LOV

• The EIT will be viewable from US Super HRMS Manager and Employee-Self Service responsibility. 
• In self-service a dedicated link should be provided to see/update/add data to this EIT.
• Other EIT must not be visible from this new link available under Employee-Self Service Menu.
• Employee will able to Add/Update the entery and on submission this will go for approval.
• HR can enter information directly via Super HRMS Manager.
• User should able to enter more than one entry. 

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How to Enable/Disable Concurrent Program Parameter Dynamically

concurrent program is a data-intensive task.A concurrent program is an executable file that runs simultaneously with other concurrent programs and with online operations, fully utilizing system's hardware capacity.

Standard Request Submission (SRS) is an Oracle Applications feature that allows us to select and run any concurrent programs from a single, standard form (Submit Request) or window (Schedule Request). Requests to run concurrent programs are called concurrent requests.

Basic Requirement 
Our basic requirement is to enable or disable concurrent program parameter dynamically.Here we will take two different requirement scenario
Scenario I
We have to define a concurrent program with the following parameter
Run Mode:- The parameter will contain a list of values.

• REPORT           :- Report mode will generate a report.(as per requirement)
• ROLLBACK    :- Rollback mode will rollback/delete the data changes done by previously executed request

Request Id:- This parameter will allow the user to select any of the previously executed concurrent request.

Request Id parameter will be enabled and mandatory if the Run Mode is selected as "ROLLBACK".
If the Run Mode is selected as "REPORT", then Request Id parameter will remain disable.



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How to Add Element Value in Oracle Online Payslip

Online Payslip enables employees to view their own payslip, via the Employee Self Service menu after payroll processing has been completed. Managers can also search for, and access the payslip of individual employees via the Payroll Professional menu.

The information displayed on the payslip is generated by an archiver program during the payroll process. This process and the payslip are localised for each payroll legislation supplied by Oracle to satisfy local requirements.

Each legislation has it's own requirements regarding what information to display on the Online Payslip. There will be standard information including header details such as Name, Address, Employee Number and National Identifier, and also statutory deductions and balances. There is also a user-definable capability as each legislation allows the user to specify additional site specific elements and balances that they wish to include on their payslip

Basic Requirement

Our basic requirement is related to US legislation requirement.
It says:- Over Time rate must be displayed for all "Hourly" employee irrespective of their elligibility of OverTime payment.
This can be extent to any legislation or method can be used to fullfill other business requirement of similar kind.

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How to Send Reminder Notification to Approver

Oracle Workflow provide us several standrad functions which helps us to implement our business requirement.

 

Here we will discuss about two such standard functions to implement our requirement.

Basic Requirement

Our old requirement looks like "when a person applies for a leave it should go his/her supervisor for approval.Approver must be able to provide his/her approval/rejection comments. The comments must be entered by the approver while rejecting the leave requisition.If he/she rejects the leave requisition without entering comments, then it should raise an application error.If he/she approves the requisition it should be optional.Approver must also be able to select theOrganization Leave Type from a list of values . If the leave gets rejected, don’t store any information in database.The approver should able to view/edit the person "Special Information Types" before approving the leave request.Before approving the sick leave request the approver must able to see the submitted medical document."

 

Apart from the above requirement, We will introduce an additional requirement that "A reminder notification(email) must go to approver in every 2 days untill he/she takes action (Approve or Reject) on the leave notification."

 

 

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How to Use XML Bursting to Send XML Report via Email

Oracle Bursting Mechanism enables us to deliver a single XML Publisher report/letter to multiple destinations simultaneously.One can create a single report/letter , then send it in any format (e.g., PDF or HTML) to multiple destinations(email ids).
There are two kind of bursting mechanism available within BI publisher

1) Control File Base:- Integrated with EBS
2) Delivery SQL based:- Part of Enterprise release.All delivery, template, output format, locale and other details define through delivery SQL Query. Enterprise Edition assume that this information is stored in data base. The process create the XML file out if this query and the delivery xml file works as control file.

 

Here we will discuss about the "Control File Base" mechanism.

 

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How to Create Global User Defined Table(UDT)

User Defined Table(UDT) is a table defined by the user in application to hold the data .Oracle HRMS user-defined tables are different from the database tables of the Oracle Relational Database Management System.While defining the table we need to define all the rows and the columns. With the help of Oracle Fast formula, we can validate the entry made in the table column. 

Basic Requirement

Our basic requirement is to create a global UDT that will hold the employee data and can be accessible from across the business group.

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How to Retrieve XML Publisher Report output

Oracle XML Publisher is a template-based publishing solution delivered with the Oracle E-Business Suite.One can Design and control how the report outputs will be presented in separate template files,known as template.At runtime, XML Publisher merges designed template files with the report data to create a variety of outputs to meet a variety of business needs.

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