Oracle Applications Interview Questions and Answers

Q: Give the structure of the trigger?

A: Triggers are simply stored procedures that are ran automatically by the database whenever some event happens. The general structure of triggers is: CREATE [OR REPLACE] TRIGGER trigger_name BEFORE (or AFTER) INSERT OR UPDATE [OF COLUMNS] OR DELETE ON tablename [FOR EACH ROW [WHEN (condition)]] BEGIN ... END;

Q: What is an autonomous transaction ?

A: An autonomous transaction is an independent transaction that is initiated by another transaction (the parent transaction). An autonomous transaction can modify data and commit or rollback independent of the state of the parent transaction.

Q: What are the different cursors available in PL/SQL ?

A: Explicit Cursors, Implicit Cursors, Ref Cursors

Q: How do you submit a concurrent program from PL/SQL Procedure?

A: FND_REQUEST.SUBMIT_REQUEST()

Q: What is the difference between View and Materialized view?

A: Materialized view will not be refreshed everytime you query the view so to have good performance when data is not changed so rapidly we use Materialized views rather than normal views which always fetches data from tables everytime you run a query on it.

Q: What is RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR used for?

A: The RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR is a procedure defined by Oracle that allows to raise an exception and associate an error number and message with the procedure.

Q: What are the three files that are generated when you load data using SQL Loader?

A: .log .bad .discard

Q: What is dynamic SQL?

A: Dynamic SQL allows you to construct a query, a DELETE statement, a CREATE TABLE statement, or even a PL/SQL block as a string and then execute it at runtime.

Q: What are the types of Exceptions?

A: System defined and user defined Exceptions

Q: What are the differences between Function and Procedure?

A: Function has to return a value where procedure may or maynot return values. Function can be used in SQL statements and procedures can not.

Q: What is the difference between TRUNCATE and DELETE?

TRUNCATE will completely erase the data where as in DELETE you have the option to delete only few rows. TRUNCATE is DDL command where as DELETE is DML command

Q: What is the SQL statement used to display the text of a procedure stored in database?

A: select text from dba_source where name = 'Procedurename'

Q: Can you use COMMIT in a trigger?

A: Yes but by defining an autonomous transaction.

Q: What is Ref Cursor?

A: A ref cursor is a variable, defined as a cursor type, which will point to a cursor result. The advantage that a ref cursor has over a plain cursor is that is can be passed as a variable to a procedure or a function.

Ref Cursors are of 2 types: Weak and Strong. In the case of Strong type, the data type of the returned cursor result is defined whereas in Weak type, it is not defined.

Eg:type erp_cursor is ref cursor; -- weak

type erp_cursor is ref cursor returning erp%rowtype; --strong

declare

2 type erp_cursor is ref cursor;

3 c1 erp_cursor;

4 r_c1 articles%rowtype;

5 r2_c1 scripts%rowtype;

6

7 begin

8 open c1 for select * from articles;

9 fetch c1 into r_c1;

10 close c1;

11 open c1 for select * from scripts;

12 fetch c1 into r2_c1;

13 close c1;

14 end;

Q: Can triggers be used on views? If so How?

A: Yes only INSTEAD OF trigger can be used to modify a view.

CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER trigger_name

INSTEAD OF INSERT ON view name

begin ... end;

Q: Can you call a sequence in SQL Loader?

A: Yes

Q: How do you declare user defined Exception?

A: Declare ... Excep_name exception; procedure Excep_name is begin raise some_exc; end Excep_name; Begin .... end;

Q: "UPDATE …..; CREATE TABLE E(….); ROLL BACK;" To which save point will the changes be Rolled Back?

A: Updates done wouldn't be Rolled Back as CREATE statement which is a DDL would issue a COMMIT after the creation of the table.

Q: What is tkprof and the syntax?

A: When Trace option is Enabled, the .trc file is created in Udump folder which is not in readable format. Tkprof utility is used to convert this .trc file into a readable format. syntax: tkprof trcfilename outputfilename

Q: How do you set profile options from PL/SQL procedure?

A: By calling the standard fnd_profile procedure.

Q: Have you ever used TABLE datatype and what is it used for?

A: TABLES are like Arrays, used for temporary storage. The declaration of TABLE involves 2 steps: Declare the table structure using TYPE statement and then declare the actual table.

Q: what is External table?

A: External tables can be used to load flat files into the database.

Steps:

First create a directory say ext_dir and place the flat file (file.csv) in it and grant read/write access to it.

Then create the table as below:

create table erp_ext_table (

i Number,

n Varchar2(20),

m Varchar2(20)

)

organization external (

type oracle_loader

default directory ext_dir

access parameters (

records delimited by newline

fields terminated by ,

missing field values are null

)

location (file.csv)

)

reject limit unlimited;

Q: What is global temporary table?

A: Global temporary tables are session specific, meaning the users in other sessions cannot see or manipulate the data in the temporary table you have created. Only you can access or insert or delete or perform anything with the data in the temporary table in your session and the other users cannot use or access this. Once you end your session, the data in the temporary table will be purged.

Q: How do you retrieve the last N records from a table?

A: The RANK() and DENSE_RANK() functions can be used to

determine the LAST N or BOTTOM N rows.

Q: What is difference between TRUNCATE & DELETE

A: TRUNCATE commits after deleting entire table i.e., cannot be rolled back. Database triggers do not fire on TRUNCATE

Q: What is ROWID?

A: ROWID is a pseudo column attached to each row of a table. It is 18 characters long, blockno, rownumber are the components of ROWID

Q: What are the advantages of VIEW?

A: To protect some of the columns of a table from other users.

- To hide complexity of a query.

- To hide complexity of calculations.

Q: What are SQLCODE and SQLERRM and why are they important for PL/SQL developers?

A: SQLCODE returns the value of the error number for the last error encountered. The SQLERRM returns the actual error message for the last error encountered. They can be used in exception handling to report, or, store in an error log table, the error that occurred in the code. These are especially useful for the WHEN OTHERS exception.

Q: What is tkprof and how is it used?

A: The tkprof tool is a tuning tool used to determine cpu and execution times for SQL statements. You use it by first setting timed_statistics to true in the initialization file and then turning on tracing for either the entire database via the sql_trace parameter or for the session using the ALTER SESSION command. Once the trace file is generated you run the tkprof tool against the trace file and then look at the output from the tkprof tool. This can also be used to generate explain plan output.

Q: What is Blanket PO?

A: A Blanket PO is created when you know the detail of the goods or services you plan to buy from a specific supplier in a period, but you do not know the detail of your delivery schedules.

Q: What are different types of PO’s ?

A: Standard, Blanket, Contract, Planned

Q: How does workflow determines whom to send the PO for approval?

A: It Depends on the setup whether it is position based or supervisor based.

Q: Can you create PO in iProcurement ?

A: No

Q: Give me some PO tables

A: PO_HEADERS_ALL, PO_LINES_ALL, PO_LINE_LOCATIONS_ALL,PO_DISTRIBUTIONS_ALL

Q: Tell me about PO cycle?

A: Create PO

Submit it for Approval

Receive Goods against the PO (when order is delivered by the vendor)

Close the PO after the invoice is created in AP and teh payments have been made to the vendor.

Q: Explain Approval Heirarchies in PO.

A: Approval hierarchies let you automatically route documents for approval. There are two kinds of approval hierarchies in Purchasing: position hierarchy and employee/supervisor relationships.

If an employee/supervisor relationship is used, the approval routing structures are defined as you enter employees using the Enter Person window. In this case, positions are not required to be setup.

If you choose to use position hierarchies, you must set up positions. Even though the position hierarchies require more initial effort to set up, they are easy to maintain and allow you to define approval routing structures that remain stable regardless of how frequently individual employees leave your organization or relocate within it.

Q: What functions you do from iProcurement?

A: Create Requisition, Receive the goods.

Q: What is difference between positional hierarchy and supervisor hierarchy?

A: If an employee/supervisor relationship is used, the approval routing structures are defined as you enter employees using the Enter Person window. In this case, positions are not required to be setup.

If you choose to use position hierarchies, you must set up positions. Even though the position hierarchies require more initial effort to set up, they are easy to maintain and allow you to define approval routing structures that remain stable regardless of how frequently individual employees leave your organization or relocate within it.

Q: What is the difference between purchasing module and iProcurement module?

A: Iprocurement is a self service application with a web shopping interface. WE can only create and manage requisitions and receipts.

Purchasing module is form based and also lets you create PO and many other functions are possible other than requisitions and receiving.

Q: What is dollar limit and how can you change it?

A: An approval group is defined which is nothing but a set of authorization rules comprised of include/exclude and amount limit criteria for the following Object Types: Document Total, Account Range, Item Range, Item Category Range, and Location that are required to approve a PO.

You can always change the rules by doing the below:

Navigation:

Purchasing Responsibility > Setup > Approvals > Approval Groups

Query the Approval group and change teh rules accordingly.

Q: What is Planned PO?

A: A Planned PO is a long–term agreement committing to buy items or services from a single source. You must specify tentative delivery schedules and all details for goods or services that you want to buy, including charge account, quantities, and estimated cost.

Q: What is backdated Receipt?

A: Creating a Receipt with "Receipt Date" less than sysdate or today's date is referred to as 'Backdated Receipt".

Q: Is it possible to create a backdated receipt with a receipt date falling in closed GL period?

A: No. The receipt date has to be with in open GL period.

Q: What is Receipt Date Tolerance?

A: The buffer time during which receipts can be created with out warning/error prior or later to receipt due date.

Q: How do we set the Receipt Tolerance?

A: Receipt Tolerance can be set in three different places.

1. Master Item Form (Item Level)

2. setup, organization form (Organization Level)

3. Purchase Order, Receiving controls. (shipment level).

Q: EXPLAIN ABOUT PO FLOW

A: CREATE REQUISTION, RAISE RFQ(REQUEST FOR QUOTATION),QUOTATIONS,PURCHASE ORDER,RECIEPTS

Q: What are the Process Constraints?

A: Processing Constraints allow Order Management users the ability to control changes to sales orders, at all stages of its order or line workflows to avoid data inconsistencies and audit problems.

Q: What is a Pick Slip Report?

A: Pick slip is a shipping document that the pickers use to locate items in the warehouse/ inventory to ship for an order.

Q: At what stage an order cannot be cancelled?

A: If the order is Pick Confirmed, it cannot be cancelled.

Q: When the order import program is run it validates and the errors occurred can be seen in?

A: Order Management Responsibility >Orders, Returns : Import Orders> Corrections

Q: What is the difference between purchase order (PO) and sales order?

A: Purchase Order: The document which is created and sent to supplier when we need to purchase something. (Buying)

Sales Order: The document which is created when customer places an order to buy something. (Selling)

Q: What are primary and secondary price lists?

A: Price list contains information on items and its prices. The pricing engine uses secondary price lists when it cannot determine the price for an item using the price list assigned to an order.

Q: Name some tables in shipping/order/move order/inventory?

A: WSH_DELIVERY_DETAILS,WSH_NEW_DELIVERIES, OE_ORDER_HEADERS_ALL, OE_ORDER_LINES_ALL, MTL_SYTEM_ITEMS_B, MTL_MATERIAL_TRANSACTIONS

Q: How is move order generated?

A: When the order is pick released.

Q: What is ONT stands for?

A: ORDER MANAGEMENT

Q: What does Back ordered mean in OM?

A: An unfulfilled customer order due to non-existence of the ordered items in the Inventory.

Q: What are picking rules?

A: A user-defined set of criteria to define the priorities Order Management uses when picking items out of finished goods inventory to ship to a customer. Picking rules are defined in Oracle Inventory.

Q: What is drop ship in OM?

A: A method of fulfilling sales orders by selling products without handling, stocking,or delivering them. The selling company buys a product from a supplier and has the supplier ship the product directly to customers.

Q: What are Defaulting Rules?

A: While creating the order,you can define defaulting rules so that the default values of the fields pop up automatically instead of typing all information.

Q: What are validation templates?

A: A validation template names a condition and defines the semantics of how to validate that condition. Validation templates can be used in the processing constraints framework to specify the constraining conditions for a given constraint.

Q: What are different Order Types?

A: Order Only, Mixed, RMA

Q: Explain the Order Cycle?

A: Book the order

Pick Release

Pick Confirm

Ship Confirm

Close the order

Q: What is packing slip?

A: An external shipping document that is sent along with a shipment itemizing in detail the contents of that shipment.

Q: When an order cannot be deleted?

A: Order cannot be delted if the Order is Pick Confirmed.

Q: What is pick slip?

A: Pick slip is a shipping document that the pickers use to locate items in the warehouse/ inventory to ship for an order.

Q: What is Drop shipment?

A: Drop Shipment is a process where the customer places a purchase order on a company and this company instructs its supplier to directly ship the items to the customer.

Q: What are the 4 C's in Accounting?

A: In Oracle 11i 3c's i.e Currency Calendar Char of Account

In R12 4c's include sub-ledger account along the above

Q: What is delegation in iExpense?

A: You can authorize an employee to enter expense reports for another employee. An employee who is assigned the responsibility to enter expense reports for another employee is an authorized delegate.

Q: What is the process/steps for Vendor Conversion?

A: Insert the Vendor info into the interface tables and perform the required validations:

AP_SUPPLIERS_INT

AP_SUPPLIER_SITES_INT

AP_SUP_SITE_CONTACT_INT

Run the below programs to load the data into the Base tables:

Supplier Open Interface Import

Supplier Sites Open Interface Import

Supplier Site Contacts Open Interface Import

Q: What is Debit Memo & Credit Memo in Payables?

A: Credit Memo is a negative amount invoice you receive from a supplier representing a credit. Debit Memo is a negative amount invoice you send to notify a supplier of a credit you recorded for goods or services purchased.

Q: Explain the set up used for Automatic or Manual Supplier Numbering.

A: In the Financials Options window, you can set the Supplier Number entry option to either Autimoatic or Manual • Automatic: The system automatically assigns a unique sequential number to each supplier when you enter a new supplier. • Manual: You enter the supplier number when you enter a supplier

Q: What is Contract PO?

A: Contract PO is created when you agree with your suppliers on specific terms and conditions without indicating the goods and services that you will be purchasing.

Q: What is a Payable Document?

A: A medium you use to instruct your bank to disburse funds from your bank account to the bank account or site location of a supplier.

Q: In which table we can find the vendor number?

A: PO_VENDORS

Q: Give the cycle from creating an invoice to transferring it to GL in AP.

A: 1)Create Invoice 2)Validate Invoice 3)Create Accounting entries using Payables Accounting Process 4)Submit the Payables Transfer to General Ledger program to send invoice and payment accounting entries to the General Ledger interface. 4)Journal Import (GL) 5)Journal Post (GL)

Q: What are the different types of Invoices in Payables?

A: Standard, Credit Memo, Debit Memo, Expense Report,PrePayment, Mixed, PO Default

Q: You have created a new SOB. How will you attach this SOB to AP?

A: Go to Payables Manager for the appropriate Operating Unit.

Navigation:Setup--->Set of Books--->choose.

Q: How many key flexfields are there in Payables?

A: No Key Flexfields in AP

Q: What is the Distribution Type while entering the Invoice?

A: Item, Tax, Miscellaneous,Freight, Withholding Tax

Q: What are the Prepayment types?

A: Temporary and Permanent

Q: What is Aging Periods?

A: Aging Periods window are the time periods for the Invoice Aging Report. The Invoice Aging Report provides information about invoice payments due during four periods you specify.

Q: Whats the difference between the "Payables Open Interface Import" Program and the "Payables Invoice Import" program?

A: Payables Open Interface -- for importing regular invoices Payables Invoice Import -- for importing expense reports. In 11i renamed as Expense Report Import.

Q: What is prepayment & steps to apply it to an Invoice?

A: Prepayment is a type pf invoice that you enter to make an advance

payment to a supplier or employee.

To Apply it to an Invoice ,in the Invoices window, query either the prepayment or the invoice to which you want to apply it. Choose the Actions button and select the Apply/Unapply Prepayment check box. Click OK.

Q: Can you  hold the partial payment if yes then how?

A: Yes.

1.Go to the Invoice window. Go to the scheduled payments tab.

2.Click "Split" to split the scheduled payment into as many

payments as you wish.

3.Check "Hold" against the Payment line you wish to hold.

Q: How you will transfer payables to general ledger?

A: Create Accounting. Transfer the transactions to GL_Interface Import the Journals Post the Journals

Q: What program is used to transfer AP transactions to GL?

A: Payables Transfer to General Ledger Program

Q: What is use of AP Accounting Periods?

A: In Payables accounting periods have to be defined to enter and account for transactions in these open periods. Payables does not allow transaction processing in a period that has never been opened. These periods are restricted to Payables only. The period statuses available in Payables are Never Opened, Future,Open, Closed, and Permanently Closed.

Q: What are the different interface programs in AP?

A: Payables Open Interface Import to load Invoices and other transactions.

Supplier Open Interface Import to load Suppliers.

Supplier Sites Open Interface Import to load Supplier sites.

Supplier Site Contacts Open Interface Import to load Supplier Site contacts.

Q: What is Invoice Tolerance?

A: We can define the matching and tax tolerances i.e how much to allow for variances between invoice, purchase order, receipt, and tax information during matching. You can define both percentage–based and amount–based tolerances.

Q: What will accrue in Payables?

A: Expenses and Liabilities

Q: What is a Hold? Explain the types of Hold.

A: Payables lets you apply holds manually on an invoice, Payments etc to prevent the payment from being made or to prevent the accounting entries to be created etc. Some of the Payable holds are -- Invoice Hold, Accounts Hold, Funds Hold, Matching Hold, Variance Hold, Misc hold.

Q: Which module is the owner of Vendor/Supplier tables?

A: Purchasing

Q: What is Payment Terms?

A: Payment Terms let you define the due date or the discount date , due amount or discount amount. Once the payment terms are defined, you can attach these to the suppliers and supplier sites and these terms will be automatically populated once the invoice is entered for a supplier site.

Q: In AP the suppliers didn’t visible in India Creditors Ledger Report Parameter?

A: pls check whether that particular supplier is available in Suppliers addition inforamtion or not.

Q: What kind of transactions can be created using AutoInvoice?

A: Invoices, credit memos, debit memos, and on–account credits can be imported using AutoInvoice.

Q: What are the underlying tables and validations required during AutoInvoice Interface?

A: Interface tables: RA_INTERFACE_LINES_ALL Base tables: RA_CUSTOMER_TRX_ALL RA_BATCHES RA_CUSTOMER_TRX_LINES_ALL AR_PAYMENT_SCHEDULES_ALL RA_CUSTOMER_TRX_LINE_SALESREPS RA_CUST_TRX_GL_DIST_ALL AR_RECEIVABLES_APPLICATIONS AR_ADJUSTMENTS RA_CUSTOMER_TRX_TYPES_ALL Concurrent Program: Auto invoice master program Validations: check for amount, batch source name, conversion rate, conversion type. Validate orig_system_bill_customer_id, orig_system_bill_address_id, quantity. Validate if the amount includes tax flag.

Q: Explain the different steps in implementing Autolockbox.

A: Import, Validate, Post Quick Cash

Q: What are the different Invoice matching types?

A: 2-way matching: 2-way matching verifies that Purchase order and invoice quantities must match within your tolerances 3-way matching: 3-way matching verifies that the receipt and invoice information match with the quantity tolerances 4-way matching: 4-way matching verifies that acceptance documents and invoice information match within the quantity tolerances

Q: What are the different Transaction types in AR?

A: Invoice, Credit Memo, Debit Memo,Charge back, commitments

Q: Tell me about TCA?

A: TCA canbe used to import or modify Customers related data.

Q: Name some Flexfields in AR.

A: Sales Tax Location, Territory

Q: Explain the steps involved in Transfer to GL from AR.

A: Transfer the transactions to GL_Interface Import the Journals Post the Journals

Q: What is the dbnumber of a particular cusotmer TCA?

A: It is a unique number used to identify the Customers.

Q: Where can you find the Customer payment terms?

A: In the table hz_customer_profiles

Q: What is the link between OM and AR?

A: To relate the Order Number (ONT) to the Invoice (AR) we use the LINE TRANSACTION FLEX FIELDS. In RA_CUSTOMER_TRX_ALL, INTERFACE_HEADER_ATTRIBUTE1 to INTERFACE_HEADER_ATTRIBUTE15 store this Information that uniquely identifies the Sales Order (HEADER INFO). In RA_CUSTOMER_TRX_LINES_ALL, INTERFACE_LINE_ATTRIBUTE1 to INTERFACE_LINE_ATTRIBUTE15 store this Information that uniquely identifies the Sales Order.(LINE INFO)

Q: What is Blanket PO?

A: A Blanket PO is created when you know the detail of the goods or services you plan to buy from a specific supplier in a period, but you do not know the detail of your delivery schedules.

Q: What are different types of PO’s ?

A: Standard, Blanket, Contract, Planned

Q: How does workflow determines whom to send the PO for approval?

A: It Depends on the setup whether it is position based or supervisor based.

Q: Can you create PO in iProcurement ?

A: No

Q: Give me some PO tables

A: PO_HEADERS_ALL, PO_LINES_ALL, PO_LINE_LOCATIONS_ALL,PO_DISTRIBUTIONS_ALL

Q: Tell me about PO cycle?

A: Create PO

Submit it for Approval

Receive Goods against the PO (when order is delivered by the vendor)

Close the PO after the invoice is created in AP and teh payments have been made to the vendor.

Q: Explain Approval Heirarchies in PO.

A: Approval hierarchies let you automatically route documents for approval. There are two kinds of approval hierarchies in Purchasing: position hierarchy and employee/supervisor relationships.

If an employee/supervisor relationship is used, the approval routing structures are defined as you enter employees using the Enter Person window. In this case, positions are not required to be setup.

If you choose to use position hierarchies, you must set up positions. Even though the position hierarchies require more initial effort to set up, they are easy to maintain and allow you to define approval routing structures that remain stable regardless of how frequently individual employees leave your organization or relocate within it.

Q: What functions you do from iProcurement?

A: Create Requisition, Receive the goods.

Q: What is difference between positional hierarchy and supervisor hierarchy?

A: If an employee/supervisor relationship is used, the approval routing structures are defined as you enter employees using the Enter Person window. In this case, positions are not required to be setup.

If you choose to use position hierarchies, you must set up positions. Even though the position hierarchies require more initial effort to set up, they are easy to maintain and allow you to define approval routing structures that remain stable regardless of how frequently individual employees leave your organization or relocate within it.

Q: What is the difference between purchasing module and iProcurement module?

A: Iprocurement is a self service application with a web shopping interface. WE can only create and manage requisitions and receipts.

Purchasing module is form based and also lets you create PO and many other functions are possible other than requisitions and receiving.

Q: What is dollar limit and how can you change it?

A: An approval group is defined which is nothing but a set of authorization rules comprised of include/exclude and amount limit criteria for the following Object Types: Document Total, Account Range, Item Range, Item Category Range, and Location that are required to approve a PO.

You can always change the rules by doing the below:

Navigation:

Purchasing Responsibility > Setup > Approvals > Approval Groups

Query the Approval group and change teh rules accordingly.

Q: What is Planned PO?

A: A Planned PO is a long–term agreement committing to buy items or services from a single source. You must specify tentative delivery schedules and all details for goods or services that you want to buy, including charge account, quantities, and estimated cost.

Q: What is backdated Receipt?

A: Creating a Receipt with "Receipt Date" less than sysdate or today's date is referred to as 'Backdated Receipt".

Q: Is it possible to create a backdated receipt with a receipt date falling in closed GL period?

A: No. The receipt date has to be with in open GL period.

Q: What is Receipt Date Tolerance?

A: The buffer time during which receipts can be created with out warning/error prior or later to receipt due date.

Q: How do we set the Receipt Tolerance?

A: Receipt Tolerance can be set in three different places.

1. Master Item Form (Item Level)

2. setup, organization form (Organization Level)

3. Purchase Order, Receiving controls. (shipment level).

Q: EXPLAIN ABOUT PO FLOW

A: CREATE REQUISTION, RAISE RFQ(REQUEST FOR QUOTATION),QUOTATIONS,PURCHASE ORDER,RECIEPTS

Q: Name the report triggers.

A: 1. Before Parameter 2. After Parameter 3. Before Report 4. Between Pages 5. After Report

Q: What are bind parameter and lexical parameter used for?

A: A bind reference replaces a single value or expression.To create a bind reference in a query, prefix the parameter name with a colon (:). A lexical reference is a text string and can replace any part of a SELECT statement, such as column names, the FROM clause, the WHERE clause, or the ORDER BY clause. To create a lexical reference in a query, prefix the parameter name with an ampersand (&).

Q: How do you print barcode in the reports?

A: By installing the Barcode Font and using the Chart field in the Layout.

Q: What are the different sections in the Layout?

A: Header, Main, Trailer

Q: What is SRW package and some procedures in SRW?

A: It is the standard reports package and it has many procedures like USER_EXITS, DO_SQL, RUN_REPORT, MESSAGE,TRACE, BREAK, SET_ATTR.

Q: What are user exits in reports and name a few?

A: User exits provided a way to pass control from Reports Builder to a program you have written, which performs some function, and then returns control to Reports Builder. Ex: SRW.DO_SQL, SRW.USER_EXIT

Q: How do you display only one record on each page in a report?

A: Give Page Break in the Format trigger of the repeating frame.

Q: How do you write the report output to Excel file or text file?

A: 1.Use TEXT_IO package 2.Use SPOOL in After Report trigger 3.Use UTL Package

Q: Give an example of the implementation of "between pages trigger" in reports.

A: The total printed at the bottom of first page has to be carried to the top of the next page.

Q: Where in reports do you set the context information (like org_id)?

A: SRW.INIT

Q: What is Anchor in reports?

A: Anchors fasten an edge of one object to an edge of another object, ensuring that they maintain their positions relative to its parent.

Q: What is the difference between Conditional Formatting and format trigger?

A: Both provide the same functionality, used to format the output based on particular conditions. Format triggers provide a wide variety of options when compared to conditional formatting(GUI). In format Triggers we have the option to write PL/SQL code where as conditional formatting is GUI based which provide limited options.

Q: How do you call a concurrent program or another report from a report?

A: Use FND_SUBMIT.REQUEST() to call a concurrent program or a report. Use SRW.RUN_REPORT() to run a report directly without registering it as a concurrent program.

Q: How do you mail the output of a report?

A: 1. Use UTL_SMTP (refer to Scripts tab for more details) 2. Use MAILX called in a shell script registered as a concurrent program with parameters File name and path.

Q: How can you grey out/ highlight/hide some records based on conditions in a report?

A: Use Conditional formatting

Q: What is Report Busting?

A: Reports bursting offers you to deliver a single report to multiple destinations simultaneously. It offers you to create multiple reports out of one single report model.

For example, you can create just one employee report for all your departments and send an email with a PDF-attachment containing the report to each manager. Each report would contain only the relevant department information for that particular manager. Using the reports bursting functionality will reduce the overhead since you will only have a single data fetch and report format.

Q: Is it possible to change the margins for oracle report?

A: Yes.

Q: What is the difference between "AFTER PARAMETER FORM" trigger and "BEFORE REPORT" trigger?

A: AFTER PARAMETER FORM trigger is fired immediately after the report parameter form is submitted. BEFORE REPORT trigger is fired after the report queries are parsed and data is fetched.

Q: What are the mandatory parameters given in Reports

A: P_CONC_REQ_ID,

P_ORG_ID