Beginners guide to Oracle EBS

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Is the top le'el in the hierarch that a responsibilit is assigned to

o !hat "#$Organi(ation"# a user belongs to

An organi(ation is a sub)set of the "#$Set of %ooks"# , which is used to

further restrict the data a user can access Multi)org ,which allows a

subsidiar ledger, such as AP, to process in'oices that will reside inmultiple sets of books.

*sers normall are assigned to multiple responsibilities.

o +he R- there is concept called MOAC which describe the access o'er different

O* le'el. !ill discuss this in details some other da.

Menus

o A menu is a hierarchical arrangement of functions and menus of functions. ach

responsibilit has a menu assig ned to it.

/ou should take a note functionalit of a responsibilit can be customi(ed bmodifing the menu associated with the responsibilit.

o +he same menu can be used b man different Responsibilities.

o In oracle application,menus can not be copied. &ew menus ha'e to be built from

scratch.

o !hile creating a new menu hierarch, create the lowest)le'el menus first. A menu

must be defined before it can be selected as an entr on another menu.

o !hen a menu"#0s name is changed, the menu entries are not affected. Other

menus calling the menu b its old name, automaticall call the same menu b itsnew name.

o Menu structure can be documented b printing a Menu Report.


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o *se the 1efine Menu 2orm in the Sstem Administration responsibilit to create

new Menus

o /ou can create and define Menu 2orm in the Sstem Administration

responsibilit to create new Menus.

Profile Options

+hese are a set of changeable options that affect the wa our application runs.

+hese can be set at different le'el, from .3.4 there are 5 different le'el where

ou can make take the options.

2urther control securit b assigning a set of books to a

responsibilit,Application,or Site.

Set of books is a compan or group of companies that uses Oracle Applications

that share a common Chart of Accounts,Currenc,and Calendar.

Profiles are established at six different levels:

. iteSite le'el profile 'alues are used when the profile option can ha'e onl one

'alue for the entire instance of Oracle. 6e7ample) 1I Input file path lets sa if

the entire ser'er is using one director to accept inbound files from 1I,then ouwould 8ust set the profile option at the site le'el, then it flows down to all le'els,

and there is no need to set this at other le'els9.

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#" erver

$" Organi%ation

&" Responsibility

'" (ser

o If ou are 'er new to oracle application , it should be noted that sstem Profile

Options are set b the Sstem Administrator and affect the beha'ior of theApplication and its modules for e'erone.

o Personal Profile Options are set b the indi'idual user and co'er that

indi'idual"#0s interaction with the sstem.

)oncurrent Manager

o In Oracle Applications, concurrent processing simultaneousl e7ecutes programs

running in the background with online operations. with sstem Administrator, ou


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can manage when programs are run and how man operating sstem processes

Oracle Applications de'otes to running programs in the background.

o !hen a user runs a report, a re:uest to run the report is generated. +he command

to run the report is a concurrent re:uest. +he program that generates the report is a

concurrent program. Concurrent programs are started b a concurrent manager.

o 'er time our users re:uest a concurrent program to be run, their re:uest is

inserted into a database table, and is uni:uel identified b a re:uest I1.Concurrent managers read re:uests from this table.

o Part of a manager;s definition is how man operating sstem processes it can

de'ote to running re:uests. +his number is referred to as the manager;s number of

target processes.

A concurrent program actuall starts running based on

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