Interview Q & A: SYSADMIN and Application Developer

SYSADMIN and Application Developer

1.    What is the relation between Responsibility, Menu and Request Group?

Responsibility: – A responsibility is a set of authority in Oracle Apps that lets users access only that functionality of the application appropriate to their roles.

Menu: – A menu is a hierarchical arrangement of functions and menus of functions that appears in the Navigator. Each responsibility has a menu assigned to it.

Request Group: – it is a collection of reports or concurrent programs. A system Administrator defines report groups in order to control user access to reports and concurrent programs. Only a system administrator can create a request group.

 

2. What is a function, how to create one?

A function is apart of an application’s functionality that is registered under a unique name for the purpose of assigning to it to, or excluding it from, a menu (and by extension, responsibility). There are several types of functions: – Form Functions, SubFunctions, and

Non-form functions. We often refer to a form function simply as a form.

3. What is meant by APPL_TOP?

Environment variable

An operating System variable that describes an aspect of the environment in which your application runs. For example, you can define an environment variable to specify a directory path.

$APPL_TOP: An environment variable that denotes the installation directory for Oracle Application Object Library and your other Oracle applications. $APPL_TOP is usually one directory level above each of the product directories (which are often referred to as $PROD_TOP or $PRODUCT_TOP or $<prod>_TOP).

4. Explain briefly where are the Custom.pll, Forms, Reports, Sql Loader Control files, Shell

     Script source code and executables files kept?

     Custom.pll – $AU_TOP/resource

     Forms       – $PROD_TOP/Forms/US

     Reports     – $PROD_TOP/Reports/US

     SQL Control Files – $PROD_TOP/Bin

     Shell Scripts – $PROD_TOP/Bin

5. When is Custom.pll used?

Custom.pll is used while making new or customizing standard oracle forms in apps. It contains all the forms libraries for apps.

6. What are profile options; at what levels can these be set?

     A user profile is a set of changeable options that affects the way the applications run. Oracle

     Applications object Library establishes a value for each option in a user’s profile when the

     User logs on or changes responsibility.

     System Profile: – Profile option can be set for the user community.

     User Profile: – Provide Oracle Apps with standard information which describes a user,

     Application, Responsibility and site. At each profile level user profile options can be set.

    

7. How can you know the form (fmb) name when you open a form in Apps?

Helpà About Oracle Apps

    

8. Where do you create a table and sequence in Apps? Is it APPS schema?

       In custom schema and then grant privileges on it to APPS schema.

9. Where are Views and Procedures created?

Views: – Views are to be created only in APPS.

Procedures: – In custom schema and the grant it to APPS schema.

    

10. How can you tell who last updated a particular row in a form?

Help à Record History

     

     11. You have logged onto a Responsibility, how do you know what operating unit are you on?

 Help à Diagonistics à Examine à Blocks à $Profiles$ à Field à Org_id

12.  Can new profiles be created? If so how?

 Yes. Application Developer.

Interview Q & A -2: SYSADMIN and Application Developer

SYSADMIN and Application Developer

1.    What is the relation between Responsibility, Menu and Request Group?

Responsibility: – A responsibility is a set of authority in Oracle Apps that lets users access only that functionality of the application appropriate to their roles.

Menu: – A menu is a hierarchical arrangement of functions and menus of functions that appears in the Navigator. Each responsibility has a menu assigned to it.

Request Group: – it is a collection of reports or concurrent programs. A system Administrator defines report groups in order to control user access to reports and concurrent programs. Only a system administrator can create a request group.

 

2. What is a function, how to create one?

A function is apart of an application’s functionality that is registered under a unique name for the purpose of assigning to it to, or excluding it from, a menu (and by extension, responsibility). There are several types of functions: – Form Functions, SubFunctions, and

Non-form functions. We often refer to a form function simply as a form.

3. What is meant by APPL_TOP?

Environment variable

An operating System variable that describes an aspect of the environment in which your application runs. For example, you can define an environment variable to specify a directory path.

$APPL_TOP: An environment variable that denotes the installation directory for Oracle Application Object Library and your other Oracle applications. $APPL_TOP is usually one directory level above each of the product directories (which are often referred to as $PROD_TOP or $PRODUCT_TOP or $_TOP).

4. Explain briefly where are the Custom.pll, Forms, Reports, Sql Loader Control files, Shell

     Script source code and executables files kept?

     Custom.pll – $AU_TOP/resource

     Forms       – $PROD_TOP/Forms/US

     Reports     – $PROD_TOP/Reports/US

     SQL Control Files – $PROD_TOP/Bin

     Shell Scripts – $PROD_TOP/Bin

5. When is Custom.pll used?

Custom.pll is used while making new or customizing standard oracle forms in apps. It contains all the forms libraries for apps.

6. What are profile options; at what levels can these be set?

     A user profile is a set of changeable options that affects the way the applications run. Oracle

     Applications object Library establishes a value for each option in a user’s profile when the

     User logs on or changes responsibility.

     System Profile: – Profile option can be set for the user community.

     User Profile: – Provide Oracle Apps with standard information which describes a user,

     Application, Responsibility and site. At each profile level user profile options can be set.

    

7. How can you know the form (fmb) name when you open a form in Apps?

Helpà About Oracle Apps

    

8. Where do you create a table and sequence in Apps? Is it APPS schema?

       In custom schema and then grant privileges on it to APPS schema.

9. Where are Views and Procedures created?

Views: – Views are to be created only in APPS.

Procedures: – In custom schema and the grant it to APPS schema.

    

10. How can you tell who last updated a particular row in a form?

Help à Record History

     

     11. You have logged onto a Responsibility, how do you know what operating unit are you on?

 Help à Diagonistics à Examine à Blocks à $Profiles$ à Field à Org_id

12.  Can new profiles be created? If so how?

 Yes. Application Developer.

Interview Q & A: FlexFields

FLEX FIELD

What is the difference between key flexfield and Descriptive flexfield?

Key Flexfield is used to describe unique identifiers that will have a better meaning than using number IDs. e.g a part number, a cost centre etc
Desc Flex is used to just capture extra information.
Key Flexfields have qualifiers whereas Desc Flexfields do not.
Desc Flexfields can have context sensitive segments while Key flexfields cannot.

And one more differenct that KFF displays like text item but DFF displays like [ ] .

Which procedure should be called to enable a DFF in a form?

FND_DESCR_FLEX.DEFINE

(BLOCK                                 => ‘BLOCK_NAME’
                ,FIELD                                    => ‘FORM_FIELD_NAME’
               ,APPL_SHORT_NAME      => ‘APP_NAME’
               ,DESC_FLEX_NAME         => ‘DFF_NAME’
               );

In Brief,

We need to follow the following steps in your form:
a) Create a displayed field to hold your concatenated segment values (the [ ] field).
b) Create fields (normally hidden) for each of the flexfield columns in your table (the

      one used for your flex).
c) In the form-level WHEN-NEW-FORM-INSTANCE,

call FND_DESCR_FLEX.DEFINE,

setting BLOCK parameter to the name of the block containing your [ ] field,

the FIELD parameter to the name of your [ ] field,

the APPL_SHORT_NAME parameter to the short name of your application and the DESC_FLEX_NAME parameter to the name of your descriptive flex.

In the form-level WHEN-NEW-ITEM-INSTANCE,

WHEN-VALIDATE-ITEM,

PRE-INSERT,

PRE-UPDATE,

POST-QUERY and

PRE-QUERY triggers place a call to FND_FLEX.EVENT as follows:

         FND_FLEX.EVENT ( ‘TRIGGER_NAME’);
where TRIGGER_NAME is the name of the trigger,

e.g. in the PRE-QUERY trigger …. FND_FLEX.EVENT(‘PRE-QUERY’);

Which procedure should be used to make the DFF read only at run time?

FND_DESCR_FLEX.UPDATE_DEFINITION()

What is the difference between flexfield qualifier and segment qualifier?

Flexfiled qualifier identifies segement in a flexfield and segment qualifier identifies value in a segment.

There are four types of flexfiled qualifier

1)     Balancing segment qualifier

2)     cost center

3)     natural account and

4)     intercompnay

segemtn qualifier :-

1)     allow budgeting

2)     allow posting

3)     account type

4)     contral account and

5)     reconciliation flag

What are the components of DFF (like structure, segment)?
Howmany Key flexfiels are there in Inventory?

Interview Q & A -1: FlexFields

FLEX FIELD

What is the difference between key flexfield and Descriptive flexfield?

Key Flexfield is used to describe unique identifiers that will have a better meaning than using number IDs. e.g a part number, a cost centre etc
Desc Flex is used to just capture extra information.
Key Flexfields have qualifiers whereas Desc Flexfields do not.
Desc Flexfields can have context sensitive segments while Key flexfields cannot.

And one more differenct that KFF displays like text item but DFF displays like [ ] .

Which procedure should be called to enable a DFF in a form?

FND_DESCR_FLEX.DEFINE

(BLOCK                                 => ‘BLOCK_NAME’
                ,FIELD                                    => ‘FORM_FIELD_NAME’
               ,APPL_SHORT_NAME      => ‘APP_NAME’
               ,DESC_FLEX_NAME         => ‘DFF_NAME’
               );

In Brief,

We need to follow the following steps in your form:
a) Create a displayed field to hold your concatenated segment values (the [ ] field).
b) Create fields (normally hidden) for each of the flexfield columns in your table (the

      one used for your flex).
c) In the form-level WHEN-NEW-FORM-INSTANCE,

call FND_DESCR_FLEX.DEFINE,

setting BLOCK parameter to the name of the block containing your [ ] field,

the FIELD parameter to the name of your [ ] field,

the APPL_SHORT_NAME parameter to the short name of your application and the DESC_FLEX_NAME parameter to the name of your descriptive flex.

In the form-level WHEN-NEW-ITEM-INSTANCE,

WHEN-VALIDATE-ITEM,

PRE-INSERT,

PRE-UPDATE,

POST-QUERY and

PRE-QUERY triggers place a call to FND_FLEX.EVENT as follows:

         FND_FLEX.EVENT ( ‘TRIGGER_NAME’);
where TRIGGER_NAME is the name of the trigger,

e.g. in the PRE-QUERY trigger …. FND_FLEX.EVENT(‘PRE-QUERY’);

Which procedure should be used to make the DFF read only at run time?

FND_DESCR_FLEX.UPDATE_DEFINITION()

What is the difference between flexfield qualifier and segment qualifier?

Flexfiled qualifier identifies segement in a flexfield and segment qualifier identifies value in a segment.

There are four types of flexfiled qualifier

1)     Balancing segment qualifier

2)     cost center

3)     natural account and

4)     intercompnay

segemtn qualifier :-

1)     allow budgeting

2)     allow posting

3)     account type

4)     contral account and

5)     reconciliation flag

What are the components of DFF (like structure, segment)?
Howmany Key flexfiels are there in Inventory?
What is Value Set?
Value Sets define and store the valid items of data, which may be entered into a field. Key Flexfields, Descriptive Flexfields and many standard fields use Value Sets. Oracle already comes with hundreds of Value Sets. We define additional Value Sets to support our own user-defined Key and Descriptive Flexfields (although we may use any existing standard Value Sets if they suit our purpose). In defining a new Value Set, we are defining the physical format of valid data, which can reside in that Value Set. Data in a Value Set can be of several types: 

•  Independently loaded into a Value Set (through a standard form). 
•  Resident in a table (to which we direct the Value Set definition). 
•  There could be No Validation (any data can go into the field, but still subject to the formatting rules.) 
•  Dependent on the value of data in a preceding Independent segment (loaded through a standard form). 

Ex: For Supplies & Accessories CC in ATP, we define GEMS_GPO_ASSIGN_SET value set for the assignment set associated with that OU.