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Oracle Application Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite Guide
Release 12.1.0.1.0
Part Number E28715-03
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Setup Manager

Introduction

Setup Manager is the next generation of an existing Oracle E-Business Suite tool called Oracle iSetup. Setup Manager extends the capabilities of Oracle iSetup in a number of important ways, including the ability to create reusable templates and projects, enforce dependencies, and perform simultaneous, multi-node loads, among others.

Key Features

Setup Manager allows you to do the following:

Prerequisites

Major Features and Definitions

Instances

There are two types of instances used with Setup Manager:

Project

A project is defined as a grouping of related extracts, transforms, loads, and reports. Projects are a key enhancement in Setup Manager and are designed to dramatically reduce the amount of time and effort associated with the management of configuration/setup data. A key feature of projects is the ability to sequence individual loads into the target instance, thus enforcing the proper order that respects the relationships that exist between configuration/setup data. A project can be scheduled to execute at a future specified time. The same project can be executed multiple times. Project executions are integrated with the change approval system.

Project Plan

You can create a project plan to add one or more tasks as you choose. A project plan binds the various tasks together so that they can be executed together multiple times. A project plan gives you the ability to orchestrate the tasks according to your needs.

Tasks

You can define Extract (including Uploaded Extracts and Transformed Extracts) tasks, Load tasks, and Report tasks.

Selection Set

A selection set is a logical set of related configuration/setup data. Oracle creates, delivers, and supports over 15 different selection sets in Releases 11i and 12, for data from multiple products, including Oracle Application Object Library, Financials, Human Resources, and Manufacturing. You use selection sets to define which type of configuration data that you want to extract from a source instance, and then load the resultant extract into one or more target instances.

Custom Selection Set

You can create selection set by selecting setup objects of your choice. Custom selection sets are useful when you want to sequence load order of setup objects or pull setup objects across product families such as Financials and Manufacturing.

Extracts

Extracts are specific sets of data extracted from a source instance, according to the definition of the selection set used.

Uploaded Extracts

You can download extract zip files from Setup Manager to your desktop to archive or to manipulate the enclosed files. These files can then be re-zipped and uploaded back into Setup Manager for a project. You can reuse these uploaded extracts when creating a project plan. Alternatively, you can also upload an extract from a stage directory.

Transform

Transforms are editable extracts in which data is presented to you as reusable Microsoft Excel templates. You can make changes to setup data offline and upload it back to Setup Manager. Setup Manager can create extracts out of the modified Microsoft Excel data and this modified data can be loaded to the same Oracle E-Business Suite instance or other Oracle E-Business Suite instances.

Loads

A load is extracted or transformed data being loaded into a target instance.

Reports

Reporting is a powerful aspect of Setup Manager. Reports can be created in one of several formats (Microsoft Excel, PDF, and RTF), and types (deployment reports, standard, and comparison).

In addition, standard reports (in PDF and RTF formats) support the BR100 style, called the "Setup Document Style", used in Oracle iSetup.

Attachments

You can add project-related documents as attachments to a project.

Executions

The instance of an execution of a project is referred to as an execution. You can execute a project multiple times. You can also schedule the project execution as needed. Project execution is integrated with the change approval system, which means you can control who executes which project.

Execution Sequence

Execution Sequence is the sequence in which the tasks are executed. Tasks having the same execution sequence are executed in parallel in a batch. The next batch would start only after successful completion of the current batch. You can also update the execution sequence while submitting the project for execution.

Requirement for Tasks Running in Parallel

You can create a project with tasks to be executed as jobs running in parallel. . If you do so, the maximum number of threads for the Standard Manager or Concurrent Manager on the Oracle E-Business Suite instance (the target on which the project is created) must be at lease one greater than the number of jobs submitted. Otherwise, the project will always be in Running status because the threads will wait for each other.

For example, say a project is defined to have two extract tasks and two report tasks to be executed in parallel. When the execution request is submitted, four jobs will be submitted in parallel. In this case the maximum number of threads for the Standard Manager or Concurrent Manager on the Oracle E-Business Suite instance (the target on which the project is created) must be at least five, or one greater than the number of jobs submitted (four).

Typically, the default value for the number of threads for the Standard Manager or Concurrent Manager is three, so projects with two tasks in parallel can be executed without issues.

Note that if the tasks are submitted in sequence by the use of prerequisites, then the tasks are executed sequentially and there is no issue. The maximum number of threads defined for the manager is typically only an issue with parallel execution with three or more tasks.

To update the maximum number of threads (worker threads) for the Standard Manager, follow these steps:

  1. Log in to the Oracle E-Business Suite instance that is the target given for the project in Setup Manager as a user with the System Administrator responsibility.

  2. Navigate to System Administrator > Concurrent > Manager > Define.

  3. Query up the Standard Manager.

  4. Click on Work Shifts.

  5. For the row where Work Shift is "Standard", change the value in the Processes column. This value must be at least 1 greater than the number of jobs to be submitted.

  6. Save your work.

Diagnostic Tests for Setup Manager

You should run diagnostic tests on your system in preparation for using Setup Manager to ensure your system is set up correctly. These tests can be accessed from the Diagnostics dashboard, available from the Pack Diagnostics link on the Oracle Applications page. For more information on running diagnostic tests, see: Running Pack Diagnostics Tests.

The following tables list tests related to Setup Manager:

Generic Diagnostic Tests for Setup Manager
Step Test Group Description Notes/Expected Results/Corrective Measures
EMGC CheckForPOILibrary Check if the Apache POI library is present on the OMS. The Apache POI Library is shipped by Apache and is used for reading and writing Microsoft Excel files through Java. These Microsoft Excel files are used in the transformation functionality.
EMGC CheckOMSStage Determine if a stage directory is defined on the OMS. Determine if the OMS owner has read/write permissions to that directory. Expected results are: the OMS Stage Directory Location and the OMS user with read/write permissions.
EMGC Summary A summary of all of the diagnostic tests that have been executed, in the following groups: Successful, Failed, With Warning, Aborted, and Total.  
EBS CheckAgentStage Check if the stage directory is defined and has the right permissions.  
EBS Check Setup Manager Patches for 12.0.X Release Check for the required patch: 9444540:R12.AZ.A for Setup Manager on the Oracle E-Business Suite instance. For Release 12.0.X targets
EBS Check Setup Manager Patches for 12.1.X Release Check for the required patch: 9444535:R12.AZ.B for Setup Manager on the Oracle E-Business Suite instance. For Release 12.1.X targets
EBS CheckAgentHome Check permissions within the Agent home directory.  
EBS CheckEBSHome Check permissions for APPL_TOP.  
EBS CheckRESTHealth Ensure that all the required interop patches are applied and REST services are available.  
EBS Summary A summary of all of the diagnostic tests that have been executed, in the following groups: Successful, Failed, With Warning, Aborted, and Total.  
User-Specific Diagnostic Tests for Setup Manager
Step Test Group Description Notes/Expected Results/Corrective Measures
EBS CheckPrivilege Check if the logged-on user has the SM_RAISE_REQ_EBS privilege.  
EBS CheckPrivilege Check if the logged-on user has the SM_APPRV_REQ_EBS privilege.  
EBS CheckEBSResponsibilities Check for the iSetup responsibility on the Oracle E-Business Suite instance.  
EBS CheckEBSRole Check for the LCM EM Client role on the Oracle E-Business Suite instance.  
EBS CheckEBSGlobalCred Check Oracle E-Business Suite preferred credentials. It is required to set the APPS schema user and Applications Login User credentials.  
EBS Summary A summary of all of the diagnostic tests that have been executed, in the following groups: Successful, Failed, With Warning, Aborted, and Total.  

Searching for a Project

You can search for a project from the Setup Manager section of the Change Management Dashboard or the main Projects page. Search on the project name in Simple Search or on the name and/or release in the Advanced Search page (Advanced Search is only accessible from main Projects Page).

A Super Administrator is able to see all projects created by all users.

Creating a Project

Use the Create Project pages to create a project.

To begin, navigate to the Projects page within Setup Manager and select the Create button.

Note: You can create a project with tasks to be executed as jobs running in parallel. . If you do so, the maximum number of threads for the Standard Manager or Concurrent Manager on the Oracle E-Business Suite instance (the target on which the project is created) must be at least 1 greater than twice the number of jobs submitted. Otherwise, the project will always be in Running status because the threads will wait for each other. For more information, see Execution Sequence.

To create a project

  1. Enter General information for the project:

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    Click on Next to create the project plan.

  2. Create the project plan. The first step to creating a project plan is defining the type of extract. The five options are:

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    Detailed information on creating an extract task is in the section Creating an Extract Task. For information on adding a transform to a project, see: Adding a Transform to a Project Plan.

  3. Once you have created the first project plan that contains the extract task as mentioned above, you can take the following additional actions on the existing project:

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    Click on Next to review the Project Details.

  4. Review the project details and select Finish.

Creating an Extract Task

You can create an extract using any one of the following procedures:

To create an extract from a Selection Set

Use these steps to create an extract using a predefined selection set.

  1. Select "Selection Set" from the Create Extract list and click Go.

  2. In the Plan: Create Extract Task from Selection Set page, select the desired selection set template for the implementation and click the Continue button.

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  3. In the next page, you can view and/or update information on the selection set:

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  4. Click Apply to save your changes and go back to the Create Project Page.

To create an extract from Custom Selection Set

You can create an extract using a custom selection set. You might want to do this if you have different APIs from multiple existing selection sets that you want to mix and match for a custom selection set.

  1. Select "Custom Selection Set" from the Create Extract list and click Go.

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  2. Click the Add Data Objects button and select the individual components that you wish to add.

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  3. Click Continue.

  4. In the next page, you can view and/or update information on the selection set:

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  5. Click Apply to save your changes and go back to the Create Project Page.

To create an extract from an Uploaded Extract

You can create an extract based on a previously-uploaded extract. Note that you cannot change the setup objects selected. A scenario in which you might want to do this is if your existing extract complies with a complex security policy, and you want your new extract to comply with the same security policy. Creating the new extract based on the old uploaded extract helps you accomplish this task.

For information on uploaded extracts, see: Managing Uploaded Extracts.

  1. Select "Uploaded Extract" from the Create Extract list and click Go.

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  2. In the next page, you can view and/or update the following information

  3. Click Apply to save your changes and go back to the Create Project Page.

To create an extract from an Execution

You can create an extract task from an existing project plan execution. This method offers the following benefits:

This method is the most efficient method for getting the extract data for a selection set, if a corresponding extract execution is already available.

Note: The selection set and filtering parameters for the new extract will be the same as that in the execution's definition, and cannot be modified.

Because the data in the new extract task is not fetched from the Oracle E-Business Suite instance, the extract data might not be synchronized with the Oracle E-Business Suite instance.

  1. Select "Execution" from the Create Extract list and click Go.

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  2. In the next page, enter the following information:

    Note that you cannot change the setup objects selected.

  3. Click Apply to save your changes and go back to the Create Project Page.

Adding a Transform to a Project Plan

To add a transform to a project plan

You can add a task to add a transform to a project plan. Note that you can add only Transforms that are in the Freeze state to a project plan. The Transform LOV restricts searches by Release and Published status by default. A Super Administrator would be able to select any transform.

  1. In the Project Plan page, navigate to the option in the Create Extract list to add a transform to a project plan. Select "Transform" and click Go.

  2. In the Add Transform Task Page, provide the details listed below.

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  3. Click Apply. You will be redirected to the Project Create Page. The transform task is similar to any other extract tasks, so you are able to create Load, Report, and Comparison Report tasks on it.

Creating a Load Task

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Load tasks are created within an existing project, and after the corresponding extract has been defined.

To create a load task

  1. To create a load task, select any one of the extracts or transforms in the current project and click Load.

  2. In the Create Load Task page, enter into the following fields:

  3. Click Apply to save your changes and go back to the Create Project page.

Creating a Report Task

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Report tasks are based on existing extracts or transforms. Report tasks are created within an existing project and after the respective extract or transform has been defined.

To create a report task

  1. To create a report task select any one of the extracts or transform in the current project and click on the Report button.

  2. Enter in the following information:

  3. Specify which components you want included in the report in the Report column of the HGrid. Only components that were in the original extract or transform are available here.

  4. Click Apply to save your changes and go back to the Create Project page.

Creating a Comparison Report Task

  1. Comparison report tasks are based on existing extracts or transforms. Two extract or transform tasks are required for comparison. A comparison report task is created within an existing project after the respective extracts or transforms have been defined.

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To create a comparison report task

  1. To create a comparison report task, select any one of the extracts or transforms in the current project and click on the Compare button.

  2. Enter in the following information:

  3. Click Apply to save your changes and go back to the Create Project page.

Editing Task Prerequisites

You can provide instructions so that project tasks execute in a certain order or sequence. Tasks can execute both in parallel and serially. Note that a task can have multiple prerequisite tasks.

The instructions for the sequence can be set within the project, or they can be modified just prior to executing the project.

The instructions in this section illustrate how to provide sequencing instructions from within the project.

To edit prerequisites

  1. Select a task. Click on Prerequisite.

  2. A window with a list of the other project tasks appears. Select the task that must precede the task specified in Step 1.

  3. Click OK. The prerequisite task will appear in the project plan table.

Reviewing a Project

After you edit prerequisites, you can review your project details and check the execution sequence. You can simply save your project, or save and execute it, and then return to the main Projects page.

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Managing Uploaded Extracts

You can upload extracts that are needed for the project.

To upload an extract from your desktop

  1. From the Setup Manager landing page, select a saved project and click the Upload Extracts from Desktop button.

    Alternatively, select a saved project and click the Uploaded Extracts icon for that project to access the Uploaded Extracts page find any extracts already uploaded for the project. Then click the Upload Extract from Desktop button to upload extracts from this page.

  2. Enter the following:

  3. Click Upload.

To upload an extract from a stage directory

  1. From the Setup Manager landing page, select a saved project and click the Uploaded Extracts icon. Here you can see all the uploaded extracts for the project. Click on the Upload Extract from Stage Directory button.

  2. Enter the following:

  3. Click Upload.

To view uploaded extracts for a project

  1. From the Setup Manager landing page, click on the Uploaded Extracts icon for the project.

  2. The next page will list the extracts uploaded for the project.

    Click on the filename link in the Download column to download the uploaded extract.

To delete an uploaded extract for a project

  1. From the Setup Manager landing page, click on the Uploaded Extracts icon for the project.

  2. The next page will list the extracts uploaded for the project.

  3. Select an uploaded extract and click the Delete button.

Managing Attachments

You can attach one or more documents that are relevant to the project (for example, background, Project Contents, pre/post instructions, advice, and so on).

To add an attachment

  1. From the Setup Manager landing page, select a saved project and click the Add Attachment button.

  2. Enter in the following:

  3. Click Upload.

To view attachments for project

  1. From the Setup Manager landing page, click on the Attachments icon for the project.

  2. The next page will list the attachments for the project.

  3. Click on the link in the Download column to download the attachment.

To delete an attachment for a project

  1. From the Setup Manager landing page, click on the Attachments icon for the project.

  2. The next page will list the attachments for the project.

  3. Select an attachment and click the Delete button.

Viewing a Project

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The Setup Manager landing page displays the saved projects in a grid with the following columns.

Allowable Actions

From the Setup Manager landing page, you can perform the following actions on the selected projects.

Please note that other users can update or execute a public project only if those users have privileges on the targets used in that project. Other users cannot add targets to public projects.

Executing a Project

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Please note the following about executing Projects:

To execute a project

  1. From the Project Search page, select a project and click the Execute button. Alternatively, click on a project name (link) and click Execute on the View Project page.

  2. Enter an Execution Name and description for the execution of the project. You can review information on the project as well, and if needed, update the Execution Sequence numbers for the tasks.

  3. The execution can also be scheduled with the following available Schedules

  4. Click Submit.

Viewing Project Executions

After you submit an execution request, the View Execution page appears.

Click on the execution name link to view details for the execution.

You can perform the following tasks for a selected execution:

Managing Transforms and Templates

Transforms are simply editable extracts. Setup Manager can provide you the XML or LDT configuration data as an XSL template so that you can edit and transform the functional configuration data offline. The Setup Manager framework handles the conversion of an XML/LDT files to an XLS file and vice versa. Note that this transformation capability is restricted to Generic Loader and iSetup framework APIs only.

The following sections describe how you can transform, edit, or add functional configuration data offline and then add the transform to a project plan.

A Super Administrator can see all transforms created by all users. Other users can delete and "unshare" public transforms they created. Transforms added to a project plan will not be overwritten by changes that are later done to the original transform.

Navigation: From the Change Management Dashboard, select the Transform link from the Setup Manager region.

Restrictions on using Microsoft Excel for Transformation

The following list outlines some of the restrictions for working with an Excel workbook for a transformation.

Searching for a Transform

This page allows you to search for a transform, as well as generate a template for a new transform and upload a template.

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To search for a transform

  1. Navigate to the Transform Search page from the Setup Manager section of the Change Management Dashboard. Alternatively, click on the Transform link under Related Links on the Setup Manager home page.

  2. Enter a name of a transform and click Go.

  3. The search results will be shown in the table. The following columns are shown:

Generating and Regenerating a Template

To generate a template

Provide information in this step that Setup Manager will collect while generating the template in a transform.

  1. Navigate to Transform Search page. Click on the Generate Template button on Transform Search table.

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  2. Enter in the following information for the template:

To regenerate a template

Setup Manager collects the information provided in this step while regenerating the template in a transform.

  1. Navigate to Transform Search page. Click on the Regenerate Template icon for a transform in the Transform Search table.

  2. Enter in the following information for the template.

  3. Select objects for the transform under Data Source Details.

  4. Click Save to save your template definition, or Submit to submit a request to regenerate the template.

Downloading a Transform

To download a transform

  1. Click on the name of the transform in the Transforms page.

  2. In the Transform Details page, click on the ZIP file in the Download Template column.

  3. Save the ZIP file to your desktop.

Updating a Transform

To update a transform

Navigate to the Transform page by clicking the Transforms link under Setup Manager from the Change Management Home page, then selecting a Transform.

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The next few sections describe how to update a transform.

To upload a template

You can select a Template from your Desktop and upload it. You can choose Cascade Changes from the current entity down to its children. This option appears only in the case of a hierarchical selection set.

  1. To upload a template, click on the Upload Template icon for a given entity listed on the Transform page.

  2. If desired, select the Cascade Changes option.

    The Cascade Changes option applies only to root setup objects.

    Attribute values would be cascaded from master to detail data objects as they appear in the selection set. Attribute values would not be cascaded between sibling data objects in the selection set even if you have provided an Attribute Mapping using the Cascade Changes option.

    By default, the value would be cascaded for the setup objects having one or more child setup objects even if they appear in a flat selection set. For example, the Accounting Calendar has Period Types and Period Sets as child objects. If a user changes an attribute value in Period Types and uploads it back, then if there is a valid attribute mapping between Period Types and Period Sets, then the attribute value would flow from Period Types to Period Sets if the criteria match.

  3. Select a Data Source.

  4. Click Upload.

Example of Editing a Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet for Transformation

This section describes an example of editing a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet for transformation of a financial operating unit level selection set. The extract contains Operating Units and Inventory Organizations APIs. The transform is created using this extract. After the transform is completed successfully, a ZIP file is created for each entity in the extract, named "OperatingUnits.zip" and "InventoryOrganizations.zip", respectively.

Perform the following steps to download and edit the transform Excel spreadsheet.

  1. Navigate to the Transforms page and select the transform. In this example the transform contain is for a financial operating unit level selection set.

  2. In the Transform page, click the ZIP file name to download the OperatingUnits ZIP file to the desktop and unzip it.

    The downloaded template ZIP file has the following contents:

  3. Click on the .xls file. The Excel workbook appears as shown in the figure below:

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    The "OperatingUnits" workbook has four sheets, one for each data source for Operating Unit API (Operating Unit, Classification, Classification Type and Organization Tl).

The structure of the Operating Unit API is as follows:

The first five columns in the Excel sheet are metadata columns: ID, ParentID, Status, Transformed and Delete:

Next to the metadata columns are the attribute names for a data source.

The following three operations can be performed and are described below:

Updating existing records

To update existing records in the database, just update the value in the Excel sheet.

For example, in the Operating Unit data source, the operating unit name has to be changed from OU100-test1 to OU200, as shown in the figure below.

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  1. Zip the files (One or more Excel files along with driver.xml) and upload it by clicking on Upload Template icon corresponding to Operating Units in the Transform page.

  2. Select the Cascade Changes box if the changes need to be cascaded down to Inventory Organizations API.

  3. Select your ZIP file as the Data Source.

  4. Click Upload.

Cascade Changes

Cascade changes between two Interfaces can occur if and only if there is an attribute mapping defined between these two Interfaces.

Cascade changes happen within the master entity object (for example, Operating Units) as well as to the detail entity object (for example, Inventory Organizations). There are two types of cascade operations that take place:

Cascade due to attribute mapping

Here is an example: The following figure shows the attribute mappings between Operating Units and Inventory Organizations. The navigation path for this page is Setup Manager home (or region on the Change Management Dashboard) > Interfaces > Interface Dependencies icon for a specific interface > Update icon for a specific dependent interface.

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The Name and Group Name of Operating Unit are mapped to Operating Unit Name and Group Name, respectively.

In this example, if you open the Inventory Organization Excel sheet, you see that the Operating Unit Name was changed to OU200 for the records having IDs '10000000', '10000001' and '10000002', as shown in the figure below.

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Cascade due to name-value match

Within the API, the system does a name and value match to find out if there are any eligible records to be transformed. For example, within the Operating Unit API: Operating Unit and Organization TL are linked through a view link. Even though there is no attribute mapping defined between these two entities, the transform does a name-value match between these two data sources, finds out the mapping, and cascades the data.

Also, across the APIs within a hierarchical selection set, a name and value match is performed during the transform for the attributes that have been changed.

Inserting new records

To insert a new record to the API, first the record needs to be inserted at the master object level (Operating Unit), then at the detail level (Organization Tl, Classification, Classification Type). If any records are inserted at the detail without inserting records at master, the details records will be 'Skipped'. Also, if the records are inserted only at the master and not inserted at the detail level, then the records at the master will have the status as ‘Inserted with Warning’.

While inserting new record to any data source, both the unique ID and proper ParentID need to be specified.

In the above example, say we insert new operating unit OU300. As the Operating Unit already have records with ID '10000000' and '10000001', the new record should be given an ID as '10000002' and an ParentID as '1', as shown in the figure below:

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Now the detail information needs to be added to Organization Tl, Classification, and Classification Type data sources with the proper ID and ParentID. The data appears as follows after insertion.

For Classification, note in the figure below the record with ID '20000002', ParentID '10000002', and Status 'Inserted'.

Classification

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For Classification Type, the following records are inserted, as shown in the figure below:

Classification Type

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For Organization Tl, note the record with ID '40000002', ParentID '10000002', Status 'Inserted', and Name 'OU300', as shown in the figure below:

Organization Tl

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Zip the files (One or more Excel files along with driver.xml) and upload it by clicking on the Upload Template icon for Operating Units.

Deleting existing records

To delete existing records from the extract select 'Yes' from the delete dropdown list box in the Excel file for the IDs that need to be deleted. After the deletion is selected at the master level, the detail records are also deleted. If we delete the record with Name 'OU100' (for example, with ID '10000001' in Operating Unit), the related detail records in Classification, Classification Type, and Organization Tl are also deleted.

  1. Select 'Yes' in the dropdown Delete Column for the ID '1000000' in Operating Unit.

  2. Zip the files (One or more Excel files along with driver.xml) and upload it by clicking on Upload Template icon for Operating Units.

In the following example, the record with the ID '10000001' is marked with "Yes" in the Delete column as shown in the figure below.

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After the transform is completed successfully, the data looks as shown in the following figures for Operating Unit, Organization Tl, Classification, and Classification Type data sources. Note that the record with the ID '10000001' is no longer listed in the Operating Unit figure below.

Operating Unit

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For Organization Tl, note that the record with the Parent ID of '10000001' is not listed in the figure below.

Organization Tl

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The related detail record for Classification is deleted, as shown in the figure below.

Classification

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The related detail record for Classification Type is also deleted, as shown in the figure below.

Classification Type

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Freezing a Transform

To freeze a Transform

  1. If you are finished with the transform process, you can freeze the transform by clicking the Freeze button. Transforms that are in a Freeze state can be added to a project plan for the same release.

    You cannot edit a transform in the Freeze state, but you can unfreeze a transform for further progress. However, these later changes do not affect the transform content added previously to a project plan.

    Note: If any errors occur while uploading or cascading the transform and if you still wish to continue with the Freeze option, then XML data from the original extract will be copied for those setup objects that have errors.

  2. Click View Log to view details of the job in which the transform was done.

Discovering Interface Metadata

To discover Interface Metadata

Before creating a transform, you must discover the interface metadata for the specific Oracle E-Business Release. To do this, perform the steps below for the Discover Interface Metadata page.

You can also use the Discover Interface Metadata to manage your Interface Metadata targets.

You can refresh the Interface Metadata by selecting any target and clicking on the Rediscover button on the Discover Interface Metadata page. The currently selected refreshed target will then become active.

Note: You can add multiple Release 11i or Release 12 targets but at any given time only one Release 11i target and one Release 12 target would be active.

  1. Navigate to Interfaces > Discover Interface Metadata.

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    Click Add to add a target.

  2. On the next page, specify the Release of the target. Use the LOV to specify the Target Name.

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  3. Click Submit.

    Only one request to discover Interface Metadata can be in the status Pending or Running at a time.

Managing Interfaces

An Interface Attribute mapping can be created between data sources of same or related (dependent) interfaces; for example, Base Data Source -> Translated Data Source.

Attribute mapping between two interfaces will not be used if the two interfaces appear in the Selection Set as siblings.

A dependent Interface Attribute Mapping is used between master to detail interfaces as they appear in hierarchical selection sets such as the Oracle Financials Operating Unit Level Setup and Payroll Element. To define the relation between two interfaces, a minimum of one attribute mapping is mandatory.

Dependent Interface Mappings are not user specific; that is, a mapping created by one user can be used in another user's transform. If a user does not want to use some or all interface mappings, he or she can uncheck the Enabled box in the Define Attribute Mapping screen.

User-defined mappings can be deleted by any user. Seeded mappings can only be enabled or disabled; they cannot be deleted.

Use the following procedure to search for interfaces.

To search for an interface

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You can search for an interface on the following:

The results table has the following columns:

Updating Interface Dependencies

To update interface dependencies

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You can navigate to this page from the Interface Search page by clicking on the Interface Dependencies icon for an interface.

This page lists dependent interfaces for the selected interface. Table columns are:

You can add an additional dependent interface by clicking the Add button.

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Updating Dependent Interfaces

To update a dependent interface

  1. Navigate to the Interfaces page and then click the Interface Dependencies icon for a specific interface. The dependent interfaces are listed in the Interface Dependencies: [Interface Name] page.

    Click the Update icon for a specific dependent interface to update it.

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  2. You can disable an attribute mapping by de-selecting the Enabled box.

  3. Click Add Another Row to add a new attribute mapping.

Defining an Attribute Mapping

To define an attribute mapping

  1. Click on the Add Another Row button in the Define Attribute Mapping region in the Update Dependent Interfaces page.

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    Enter the following:

  2. Click Save to save your changes and remain on this page. Alternatively, you can click Apply to save your changes and go back to the previous page. Click Cancel to cancel your updates and return back to the previous page.