Dealing with errors when creating an adhoc role – part one – invalid roles
I was recently asked about a problem with trying to create and adhoc role, and some of the errors which might occur. I am sending notification to multiple users. While doing that if the roles are...
View ArticleDealing with errors when creating an adhoc role – part two – duplicate roles
In this post, I wrote about how you can use custom code to create an adhoc role which suppresses errors when the role is invalid. The next logical extension to the code is another common problem – what...
View ArticleDealing with errors when creating an adhoc role – part three – WF_DIRECTORY...
In this last part in the series, I’m going to look at some other common errors which you might hit when creating an adhoc role using the WF_DIRECTORY APIs. The first part of the series can be read...
View ArticleHow do you know Business Event is fired?
Recently, there was a question on OTN about how you can find out what Business Event has fired in a certain circumstance: When a transaction is done in Self Service, how to know which business event is...
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Sending Notifications in Multiple Languages
I was asked recently about how to send Workflow Notifications in different languages, dependent on the language preference of the recipient, so here’s my response in more detail. Firstly, we need to...
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Using FNDLOAD with examples
This is a post which has been sitting in my “to-do” list for a LONG time Every time I need to download or upload configuration files into eBusiness Suite, I either have to trawl through the internet,...
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Generating a Warning Message for Notification Responses
I was asked recently whether there was any way that I could come up with where a user is presented with a warning message when they respond to a notification. The way that the client wanted the...
View ArticleHow do I link TRANSACTION_ID to NOTIFICATION_ID and ITEM_KEY?
A long while back, there was a question about linking the transaction ID to a notification ID and item key within Oracle HR – I wrote the blog post below shortly afterwards, but somehow it never got...
View ArticleWhat is ACTID and how do I find it?
Recently, I was asked what ACTID was and how to find it. A user was trying to call some custom code which was usually invoked by Workflow to debug it, but ACTID is a mandatory parameter to the call....
View ArticleSending a Notification only to the Worklist Web page
There was a question asked on OTN in January about whether there was a way to stop a notification being sent to a user for one particular notification: Dear All, We are using Oracle Applications 11i...
View ArticleHow to find the Actual Responder Displayed in Notification
Back in February, there was a question asked in the WorkflowFAQ forum about how to find exactly who responded to a notification: If a notification for one user was closed by another user through access...
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UK Oracle User Group Apps2013 Conference
I will be presenting on Monday October 14th on the subject “How NOT to implement Oracle Workflow”. Hope to see you there!
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It’s been a while…
I’m still here, honest – it’s just been a manic time over the past year, and I’ve not had chance to post anything meaningful here. Sorry – I’ll try better in the new year. In the meantime, here’s a...
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