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7 Mar 2017

How to Setup and use One Time Address in Oracle Procurement ?

This functionality is designed so that addresses which are not yet defined as locations, can be used in requisitions.

Step 1: Define the Location

Navigation: Purchasing Responsibility → Setup → Organizations → Locations
Define the One Time Address location.

Step 2: Set the Profile POR: One Time Location

Enter the one time location, we created (to be used as one-time address). iProcurement uses the location code entered here as one time locatio
actual one-time address details are entered during checkout.
Step 3: Create Purchase Requisition
iProcurement → Add the item to the Cart & Checkout. Click Edit button (Applicable from 12.2.4 version)

Click Enter one-time address and key in the address.

Here we have two options either to create a new One-time address or use the existing one.
If you want to use the newly created One-time address in future, save this address in database by checking Save Address checkbox & click A

Note: Only starting from version 12.2.5, Oracle iProcurement has the provision to save one-time address for re-use later.

After clicking Apply, we can notice that the Deliver To Location was replaced with the Location that was specified in profile POR: One Time
Location. Submit the requisition for approval.

Note: If your version is older than 12.2.4, you would be able to see the One Time Address in the check out page itself (No need to go to Edit
Submit Requisition page to enter One-time address)
Oracle have moved this functionality from Checkout page to Edit and Submit Requisition page starting 12.2.4, so that different one-time add
can be entered against different lines on the same requisition.

Below is the screenshot from 12.1.3

During the requisition approval process, after the final app rover has taken action to 'Approve' the Requisition; Approval work flow engages a
process for web based requisitions which creates the one time address into a 'To Supplier' Attachment. This is assigned to the requisition line
Step 4: View Requisition
Purchasing Responsibility → Requisitions → Requisition Summary

One time address will be added as an attachment at line level in To Supplier category

Step 5: Use Autocreate functionality to create Purchase Order

Query the purchase order which was auto created and move to Shipments. View the attachments and note that the One Time Address details
seen in the attachment - To Supplier.

From the Enter Purchase Order Form, choose Inquire → View Document.
This opens the purchase order in PDF format for viewing.
Note that the Ship To is having the One Time Address that we entered during the requisition creation process.

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Posted by Dhananjayan P at 8:00 pm 5 comments:

Labels: Oracle i-Procurement, Oracle Purchasing

3 Mar 2017

How to clear cache automatically to ensure smooth performance in Oracle

iProcurement ?
This can be achieved by using the following profile option,

POR: Cache Time To Live Minutes - Time, in minutes, until the middle tier server performs a garbage collection.
The profile 'POR: Cache Time To Live' allows setting of OA Framework caching lifetime within the iProcurement application. In Release
later the profile is renamed as 'POR: Cache Time To Live Minutes'.
The profile is updatable at Site level only.

The default value specified in minutes is 15.

There is an option to set this to lesser value so that clearing of cache takes place more frequently; conversely it may be set higher also to incre
duration of cache retention.

Note:
If the value is 0 or null the application will not utilize the cache facility; thus it would not be required to clear OA Framework cache after
certain changes.

There is no impact to the Procurement functions by changing this profile, however for setting the value to 0 or null, users may experience a m
reduction in performance in some production environments. Hence it is recommended to set it to any value greater than Zero.

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Labels: Oracle i-Procurement, Oracle Purchasing

2 Mar 2017

How to hide ‘I need a Purchase Order Number Immediately’ check box in

iProcurement ?
Say a client does not use the functionality of reserving a Purchase Order number at the time of requisition creation, obviously they
want ‘I need a Purchase Order Number Immediately’ check box to be displayed. Through a simple personalization, we can hid

Pre-requisite:
Set the following profile options at the required level to enable personalization page link in OAF pages. (Recommend to set at use
level)

Profile Name Value

FND: Personalization Region Link Enabled Yes

Personalize Self-Service Defn Yes

Disable Self-Service Personal No

Solution:
Create a Catalog / Non-catalog requisition. Go to Shopping Cart by clicking ‘View Cart and Checkout’

In Delivery region, we can see I need a Purchase Order Number Immediately checkbox

Click Personalize "Delivery"

Personalize Region: Delivery page will open

Search for Message Check Box: I need a purchase order number immediately and click Personalize button
Personalize Message Check Box : I need a purchase order number immediately page will open

Against Rendered field change the value to false at the required level (I am doing it at Site level)
Screenshot before changing the value:
Screenshot after changing:

Click ‘Apply’
Click ‘Return to Application’

The option to create a Purchase Order number will now be hidden and unavailable.
Change the profile option values back to null (if not required) & Logout.

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Posted by Dhananjayan P at 11:30 pm No comments:

Labels: Oracle i-Procurement, Oracle Purchasing

17 Feb 2017

Making Delivery and Billing Region available at all time in iProcurement Shoppin
Cart
Applicable to Version 12.2.4 and later

In Oracle iProcurement, Release 12.2.4 and later, in the Shopping Cart pop-up window, the user has to manually "expand" the De
and Billing region.

However, there are fields in that region which are required to be entered. In this post we will see how to default Delivery and Bill
Region as expanded at all time.
Pre-requisite:
Set the following profile options at the required level to enable personalization page link in OAF pages.

Profile Name Value

FND: Personalization Region Link Enabled Yes

Personalize Self-Service Defn Yes

Disable Self-Service Personal No

Solution:
Create a Catalog / Non-catalog requisition. Go to Shopping Cart by clicking ‘View Cart and Checkout’

We can see Delivery and Billing details is not displayed, each and every time we have to click ‘Show Delivery and Billing’ to ent
details.

Click Personalize Stack Layout: (ShoppingCartStack)

Personalize Region: /oracle/apps/icx/por/req/webui/ShoppingCartPopupRN.ShoppingCartStack page will open
Search for Hide Show: (ReqSummaryHideShow) & Click Personalize button

Personalize Hide Show : (ReqSummaryHideShow) page will appear

Change the value of Disclosed Property to True at Site level

Screenshot of the page before changing:

Screenshot of the page after changing:

Click ‘Apply’
Click ‘Return to Application’

Now we can see that ‘Delivery and Billing’ region is displayed and ‘Hide Delivery and Billing’ link is displayed instead of the S
Delivery and Billing link.
Change the profile option values back to null & Logout.

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Posted by Dhananjayan P at 7:45 pm No comments:

Labels: Oracle i-Procurement

16 Feb 2017

Enabling Personalization links in OAF Page

To enable Personalization Page link in OAF Page, we have to set the following profile options at required level (Function, Site,
Responsibility and User)

Profile Name Value

FND: Personalization Region Link Enabled Yes

Personalize Self-Service Defn Yes

Disable Self-Service Personal No

Personalize Self-Service Defn

Set the value to ‘Yes’ to allow ‘Personalize Page’ link to appear at the right top of the OAF page.

FND: Personalization Region Link Enabled

It renders the ‘Personalize Region’ links above each region in a page. Each link takes you first to the Choose Personalization Con
page, then to the Hierarchy Personalization page with focus on the region node from which we selected the “Personalize Region”

Set the value to ‘Yes’ to display all the personalization links above each OAF page region.
Set the value to ‘Minimal’ to display key regional links.
Disable Self-Service Personal
Set the value to ‘No’ - will enable all OAF personalization links on all pages.

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Posted by Dhananjayan P at 7:00 pm No comments:

Labels: Basics, Oracle i-Procurement

15 Feb 2017

Double dashes are replaced with – in Email Notifications

When an approver takes action via email (using MS Outlook) and uses a special character (in this case an en dash symbol) the en
converted to its html number value (which is –) and that is recorded in the Requisition action history instead of the actual en dash
symbol.

Double dashes are replaced with – in Email Notifications

Steps:

The issue can be reproduced at will with the following steps,

1. User submits Requisition for approval

2. Approver responds with response action and in Note field enters text with an en dash special character

Requisition Action History records html number for the en dash instead of the actual en dash symbol

Reason:
Auto formatting feature in MS Outlook is enabled by default and it is replacing some of the character sequences in outlook.

This is the original text:

approve via email -- do you see this comment?

This is how it is replaced:

approve via email – do you see this comment?

Solution:

Change the MS Outlook settings to stop replacing the dashes.

Navigation: Outlook → File → Options → Mail

Under compose messages click on 'Editor Options' → 'Auto Correct Options'

Under 'Auto Correct' tab unselect the check box 'Replace text as you type' or you can remove only the rows that replaces '...' to
to `¿` and the quotes which you don't want

Retest the issue.

Note: You can also unselect the check box’s which you don't need that are under each tab of 'AutoFormat As You Type', 'Auto F
and 'Auto Correct' etc
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