All the best Venkat!

To convert back from CUSTOM.pld to CUSTOM.pll
f60gen module_type=LIBRARY module=CUSTOM parse=YES userid=apps/apps

To convert from CUSTOM.pll to CUSTOM.plx
f60gen module_type=LIBRARY module=CUSTOM userid=apps/apps

SELECT *
FROM ALL_TABLES
WHERE
TABLE_NAME = ‘AP_INVOICES_ALL’ — Name of the table

To query a specific column with or without table name:

SELECT *
FROM ALL_TAB_COLUMNS
WHERE
COLUMN_NAME = ‘INVOICE_NUM’ — Name of the column

To query a specific view in apps:

SELECT *
FROM ALL_VIEWS
WHERE
VIEW_NAME = ‘AR_CUSTOMERS_V’ — Name of the view

– To search some text in a specific package or in a set of packages

SELECT *
FROM all_source
WHERE name like ‘PKG_NAME’ and — PACKAGE NAME
type = ‘PACKAGE BODY’
and UPPER(text) like ‘%some search text in package body%’ — SEARCH TEXT IN PKG

– To find some specific FND message text
SELECT *
FROM fnd_new_messages
WHERE message_text like ‘%Values have not %’

Oracle Apps scripts for Release 11i
———————————

1. To fetch customer information

SELECT *
FROM AR_CUSTOMERS_V
WHERE
CUSTOMER_NUMBER = 123;

2. To fetch supplier information

SELECT *
FROM PO_VENDORS
WHERE
VENDOR_NAME = ‘ABC’;

3. To fetch Purchase orders, sales orders and lines information

SELECT *
FROM OE_ORDER_HEADERS_ALL OEH,
OE_ORDER_LINES_ALL OEL
WHERE
OEH.HEADER_ID = OEL.HEADER_ID

4. To fetch Shipping information

SELECT *
FROM WSH_NEW_DELIVERIES
WHERE
DELIVERY_NAME = ‘123′ — Once an item is ship confirmed, the delivery is generated

5. To fetch Shipping Delivery details information:

SELECT *
FROM wsh_delivery_details wdd,
wsh_delivery_assignments wda
where wdd.delivery_detail_id = wda.delivery_detail_id
and wda.delivery_id = 3403677 — This delivery id is joined with wsh_new_deliveries.delivery_id

6. To fetch Master Items information:

SELECT *
FROM MTL_SYSTEM_ITEMS_B
WHERE
SEGMENT1 = ‘ABC123′ — Item name

7. To fetch payables invoices information from AP

SELECT *
FROM AP_INVOICES_ALL INV,
AP_INVOICE_LINES_ALL LINES
WHERE
INV.INVOICE_NUM = 123
AND INV.INVOICE_ID = LINE.INVOICE_ID

8. To fetch Purchase orders information

SELECT *
FROM PO_HEADERS_ALL

9. To fetch interface tables from all products in ERP

SELECT *
FROM ALL_TABLES
WHERE TABLE_NAME LIKE ‘%INTERFACE%’

Idea! - How about creating a social network or community to share sql scripts, performance tuning and bidding on others scripts, finding issues, etc.,
looks crazzzyyyy huh ha….:)

I was missing one of the sales order DFF values which is not null and trying to insert everything else through the API and getting this strange error,
FND FLEX - NULL. I got no clue from which OE package this error is coming, but its a standard error message (FND) coming from oracle when we tried to insert with default null value.

Final piece of working code,

v_Header_Adj_Att_tbl OE_ORDER_PUB.Header_Adj_Att_Tbl_Type;
v_Header_Adj_Assoc_tbl OE_ORDER_PUB.Header_Adj_Assoc_Tbl_Type;
v_Header_Scredit_tbl OE_ORDER_PUB.Header_Scredit_Tbl_Type;
v_Header_Scredit_val_tbl OE_ORDER_PUB.Header_Scredit_Val_Tbl_Type;
v_line_tbl OE_ORDER_PUB.Line_Tbl_Type;
v_line_val_tbl OE_ORDER_PUB.Line_Val_Tbl_Type;
v_Line_Adj_tbl OE_ORDER_PUB.Line_Adj_Tbl_Type;
v_Line_Adj_val_tbl OE_ORDER_PUB.Line_Adj_Val_Tbl_Type;
v_Line_price_Att_tbl OE_ORDER_PUB.Line_Price_Att_Tbl_Type;
v_Line_Adj_Att_tbl OE_ORDER_PUB.Line_Adj_Att_Tbl_Type;
v_Line_Adj_Assoc_tbl OE_ORDER_PUB.Line_Adj_Assoc_Tbl_Type;
v_Line_Scredit_tbl OE_ORDER_PUB.Line_Scredit_Tbl_Type;
v_Line_Scredit_val_tbl OE_ORDER_PUB.Line_Scredit_Val_Tbl_Type;
v_Lot_Serial_tbl OE_ORDER_PUB.Lot_Serial_Tbl_Type;
v_Lot_Serial_val_tbl OE_ORDER_PUB.Lot_Serial_Val_Tbl_Type;
v_action_request_tbl OE_ORDER_PUB.Request_Tbl_Type;

v_error XXC_RETURN_TO_VEND.ERROR_DESC%TYPE;

v_user_id NUMBER:=FND_GLOBAL.USER_ID;
v_resp_id NUMBER:=FND_GLOBAL.RESP_ID;
v_resp_appl_id NUMBER:=FND_GLOBAL.RESP_APPL_ID;
v_request_id NUMBER:=FND_GLOBAL.CONC_REQUEST_ID;

begin

fnd_global.apps_initialize(v_user_id, v_resp_id, v_resp_appl_id);

–Setting up header record —-

—Intializing record to missing
v_HeaderRec := OE_ORDER_PUB.G_MISS_HEADER_REC;

—-Required Attributes—-
v_HeaderRec.Order_Type_ID := 1;
v_HeaderRec.Sold_to_Org_ID := 1;
v_HeaderRec.price_list_id := 1;
v_HeaderRec.freight_terms_code := NULL;
v_HeaderRec.attribute15 := sysdate; — mandatory value in Order header DFF : /* THIS IS THE PLACE I MESSED UP */
v_HeaderRec.Operation := OE_GLOBALS.G_OPR_CREATE;

—- Intializing record to missing
v_lineTbl(1) := OE_ORDER_PUB.G_MISS_LINE_REC;

—-Required Attributes—-
v_lineTbl(1).Inventory_item_id := 1;
v_lineTbl(1).Ordered_Quantity := 1;
v_lineTbl(1).Operation := OE_GLOBALS.G_OPR_CREATE;

OE_ORDER_PUB.PROCESS_ORDER ( p_api_version_number => 1.0
, p_init_msg_list => FND_API.G_TRUE
, p_return_values => FND_API.G_TRUE
, p_action_commit => FND_API.G_TRUE
, x_return_status => vReturnStatus
, x_msg_count => vMsgCount
, x_msg_data => vMsgData
, p_header_rec => v_HeaderRec
, p_line_tbl => v_lineTbl
, p_action_request_tbl => v_RequestTbl
, x_header_rec => v_Header_Rec
, x_header_val_rec => v_Header_Val_Rec
, x_Header_Adj_tbl => v_Header_Adj_Tbl
, x_Header_Adj_val_tbl => v_Header_Adj_Val_Tbl
, x_Header_price_Att_tbl => v_Header_Price_Att_Tbl
, x_Header_Adj_Att_tbl => v_Header_Adj_Att_Tbl
, x_Header_Adj_Assoc_tbl => v_Header_Adj_Assoc_Tbl
, x_Header_Scredit_tbl => v_Header_Scredit_Tbl
, x_Header_Scredit_val_tbl => v_Header_Scredit_Val_Tbl
, x_line_tbl => v_Line_Tbl
, x_line_val_tbl => v_Line_Val_Tbl
, x_Line_Adj_tbl => v_Line_Adj_Tbl
, x_Line_Adj_val_tbl => v_Line_Adj_Val_Tbl
, x_Line_price_Att_tbl => v_Line_Price_Att_Tbl
, x_Line_Adj_Att_tbl => v_Line_Adj_Att_Tbl
, x_Line_Adj_Assoc_tbl => v_Line_Adj_Assoc_Tbl
, x_Line_Scredit_tbl => v_Line_Scredit_Tbl
, x_Line_Scredit_val_tbl => v_Line_Scredit_Val_Tbl
, x_Lot_Serial_tbl => v_Lot_Serial_Tbl
, x_Lot_Serial_val_tbl => v_Lot_Serial_Val_Tbl
, x_action_request_tbl => v_action_request_tbl
);

IF vReturnStatus <> ‘S’ THEN
FOR v_Index IN 1..vMsgCount
LOOP
FND_FILE.PUT_LINE(FND_FILE.LOG,’ ‘||’ Order Creation FAILED!!!!!!!’);
vMsgData := OE_MSG_PUB.GET(p_msg_index => v_index,
p_encoded => ‘F’);
FND_FILE.PUT_LINE(FND_FILE.LOG,’ ‘||vMsgData);
–dbms_output.put_line ( vMsgData);
END LOOP;
ELSE
FND_FILE.PUT_LINE(FND_FILE.LOG,’ ‘||’ Order Creation SUCCESS!!!!!!! ‘ ||v_Header_Rec.Order_number);
END IF;

This API code is for Release 11i and hope they will made better for FUSION.

See the above screenshot, you can download the BIP Enterprise edition and BIP Desktop tool everything FREE! from the Oracle website, here.

First lets discuss about the BI Publisher Desktop a.k.a Template Builder for Word, unfortunately its available only for Windows and only for Microsoft Word, I am also searching Template Builder in PDF and for Microsoft Excel files. But I couldn’t get those template builders.
Unzip the file and install your BI Desktop tool, then you can find it in your Start Panel.

Goto Oracle BIP Desktop from the Start panel, then view the demos to have a good kick start in BIP.
We will see in the coming posts how to create simple BIP reports.

Most likely I will be attending Barcamp-LA4 - TBD.

Best place to start learning XML is from W3C Tutorials.

Let me explain basic XML tags structure with an simple example.

<G_VENDOR_NAME>
   <VENDOR_NAME>GE </VENDOR_NAME>
   <VENDOR_STATE>CA </VENDOR_STATE>
   <G_INVOICE_NUM>
     <INVOICE_NUM> 123</INVOICE_NUM>
     <INVOICE_DATE>14-JUN-2007</INVOICE_DATE>
     <INV_AMOUNT>100</INV>
     <GL_DATE> 1-JUN-2007</GL_DATE>
   </G_INVOICE_NUM>

   <G_INVOICE_NUM>
     <INVOICE_NUM> 124</INVOICE_NUM>
     <INVOICE_DATE>15-JUN-2007</INVOICE_DATE>
     <INV_AMOUNT>200</INV>
     <GL_DATE> 1-JUN-2007</GL_DATE>
   </G_INVOICE_NUM>

</G_VENDOR_NAME>

The opening of every tag has its own end tag like <VENDOR_NAME> ABC </VENDOR_NAME>
If you are not closing the tag and opening another tag, then the XML parser may throw you the error when you open the XML in a web browser or through an application.

The above is a very simple XML file structure where you can see the parent node is <G_VENDOR_NAME> which contains multiple child nodes and child node may act as a parent for its descendants. Actually the main purpose of creating our own tags or markups is to store our data inside the tags. The gist here is we are storing our data and retrieving through these markups or tags, even for XML Publisher reporting we are fully using these tags and their data when we display the report.

Apart from this, XML has many features. XML tag contains attributes and we can validate XML schema using DTDs.
For displaying XML we can use XSL (eXtensible Stylesheet Language) which is more like CSS (Cascading Style Sheet).

CDATA - Its one of the most important things that the XML publisher developer should know. We generally find this in all our XML files. Everything inside a CDATA section is ignored by the parser.
A CDATA section starts with “<![CDATA[” and ends with “]]>”.

Then we have various associated XML technologies and some of them are used in XML publisher includes XSLT (XSL Transform), XPath (language for XML navigation), XSL - FO (Formatting objects), SOAP, WSDL, etc.,

Related Usefuls links for XML Beginners:

1. A quick introduction to XML - Sun Java
2. A Technical introduction to XML