SUBBA REDDY Interview Questions 11/17/2020

These were the questions I was asked in Oracle interview. (14/7/03).

1 Tell me about your technical experience??

2 Name the reports you customized??
3 Explain one report how it looks like and what are all the enhancement you have done??
4 How many reports you customized??
5 How did you join the PO details in Min Max Planning report with the master details?
What is the table you used for this PO information details??
6 What is process_lead time??
7 Order Cycle??
8 Explain the interface process??
9 How do you handle the errors in this process?
10 What are the interface you have done?
11 Explain the interface tables & base tables involved in Items import??
12 Can you recollect the mandatory fields to be uploaded ??
13 What are the different oracle exceptions??
14 Name few oracle exceptions??
15 About function & procedure??
16 What are pseudo colums?
17 What is decode??
18 What are the master-detailed triggers in forms?
19 What is the directory heirarchy in Apps?? Draw it?

1. Tell about yourself

2. What is an anchor in report
3. Have u used anchor in the report?
4. Name some of the reports you have customized and Explain any one of the report you have
customized
5. Explain the steps for registration of a report
6. Describe the Interfaces you have developed?
6. Have u used APIs in the interface?
7. How did you get the data from interface table into Oracle Applications tables
8. Did you run the report through Standard request submission or through Pl/sql?
9. can u able to run the Concurrent program through Pl/sql
10. How will u run the concurrent program after 100 rows are inserted in the base table?
11. What is exception handling
12. Have u customized any forms?
13. Name the form u have customized?
14. Have you used Custom.pll?
15. Where will u place the fmx file and fmb file of Customized form?
16. How will you call the customized form from the original form?
17. Have u done any performance tuning?
18. Have u used toad?
19. How can you do performance tuning using Toad?
20. What is the difference between pre-formatted report and normal report?
21. How do you handle exceptions in Pl/sql?

1 Tell me about your technical experience in Apps.

2 What are the modules you are conversant with?
3 What are the features in APPS 11i?
4 Explain a report that you had developed with the layout and tables on the board.
5 What are the Interfaces that you have done? Explain the flow with the tables involved
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on the board
6 Registration steps for reports
7 What are the types of Value Sets.
8 What is 'Dependent' value set validation.
9 Rate your self in PL/SQL
10 Write a query to delete duplicate rows of a table
11 We are not able to see the data of some views in Apps from the back end. What is
the reason for that and how can we view the data?
12 What are cursors?
13 What are pseudo columns? Name them?
14 There is a table TTS. with a column called TS. Values in it are 18-Jul-03 10:10:10
18-Jul-03 10:10:30. How will you find the average of the two?
15 What are the different types of reports?
16 Name the triggers in Reports
17 What is an User exit. Name some user exits in APPS.
18 Where do you specify SRWINIT and SRWEXIT user exits in reports?
19 What happens if you specify SRWINIT user exit in Before Parameter Form Trigger?
Will it give an error or not? Reason?
20 Difference between lexical and bind parameters
21 Explain Decode Function
22 What are the new features in 8I
23 Explain Materialized views.
24 Write the CASE WHEN..END syntax on the board.
25 Have you used Tuning?
26 In Reports which is best to use Views or Tables. Why?
27 Varrays and Nested Tables.
28 Global Temporary Tables.
29 What are procedures and functions?
30 Name few group functions.

1 Technical Exposure in Apps

2 How did you go for Interface
3 How did you validate Data
4 What is credit Memo
5 Tables for credit Memo
6 Steps for developing the form
7 Steps for registering reports
8 Report Trigger
9 Defination of Flexfield

10 Type of flexifield

11 Have You ever defines the Flexfield and why ?

12 Cycle for OM
13 Which Inetrface use for Invoice Migration
14 Tables For Interfacing
15 Pseduo-Colums
16 Autonmous Transaction
17 Exceptions
18 Cursor
19 Query to delete duplicate rows
20 What is Package
21 Syntax for Package
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22 Tables For Interface

17)Where is data stored in KFF and DFF?

A0L
1)Explain Interface cycle?
2)What are all the AOL utilities can be used in the interface cycle?
3)What AOL you used to transfer the data from legacy system to oracle table?
4)How will you use the AOL concept with plsql during interface table?
5)If you want to register a PLSQL procedure in apps,what are all the important parameters you should
have?
6)What are all AOL tables will get affected while registering report?
7)What is responsibilty?
8)What are all tables in PO?
9)What are all PO interface tables ?
10)how will you run more than one report simultaneously?
11)What is the database table which captures the information about creating the concurent
program?
12)What is the Concurrent program?
13)Where do you get the responsibilty information from the backend?
14)What are descriptive and key flexfield?How to identify flexfields in forms?
15)What is the database table which captures the following informations ?
1)Concurrant Program.
2)Responsibilty.
3)Request Group.
4)Data Group.
5)Executables.
16)Base tables in AOL?
17)Where is data stored in KFF and DFF?
18)What is value set?
19)What is meant by Configuration management?
20)What is meant by workflow?

Reports
What is the tool you use for developing apps report?
What are the components you use while you open the report builder?
What are repeating frames?
what do you mean by achoring?
what do you mean by place holder column?
like data model editor you ahve groups in the report builder components?what is use of that?
what are all the triggers in report?

Functional(Related modules about tables and relationship)

1)OM
2)INVENTORY.
3)What are the different order types?
4)What are different customer tables?
5)In which table item details are stored and describe about some columns?
6)What is the link between OM and AR module?
7)What is the use of segment and attribute columns?

Satyam Question
Q. Tell me Ur profile
Q, Which module ur working on Oracle application and what work u have done ?
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Q.Tell me the name of the table used in PO&INV?
Q. What r the validation and name the columns for u have done the validation, which interface u,
has develop?
Q Tell me transaction which u performs in inventory?
Q. What confine and flex mode in reports?
Q Tell me the step for creating report in discoverer?
Q. What is Entered_dr and entered_cr?
Q. How will get total number of records in database in single select statement?
Q. How u will debug Ur reports?
Q.Why u develops new form and what is the requirement of developing in form and tells me
the function what Ur form is doing?
Q.Component Of workflow name them?
Q. How u will launch workflow from PL/SQL?
Q. How u wills u use shell script in forms?
Interview FAQ’s :

1) Exp in which module?

2) Steps of registering reports?
3) How to attach flex fields in report & forms?
4) Sequence of reports trigger firing?
5) Forms Customizations?? Main table?
6) Parameter passing in reports
7) How 2 attach a value set 2 reports?
8) What is Token?
9) Parameter form??
10) Reports??
11) How 2 solve error & resolve errors??
12. Number of reports customized?? How??
14) Was your work involved related to forms/reports?
15) How many forms/reports have you designed/customized.
16) Brief about one form/report you have designed or customized.
17) What are basic steps involved in designing a report?
18) What are basic user exits used in reports?
19) How to register a report in APPS.
20) What are various triggers in reports and their sequence?
21) Why do we need to use placeholder?
22) How to pass parameters to a report?
23) What is a must parameter in report?
24) What r basic libraries need to be attached in a form?
25) Can we ignore them?
26) What is multi-org environment?
27) Could you brief about the tree of multi-org?
28) How many types of values sets are there in APPS?
29) Can we define dependant value set?
30) Tell me your background and the kind of experience you have?
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31) Can you tell me some of the differences you observed in the table structures in release 11i
when compared to that of release 11.0.3 or 10.7sc.
32) How are developing reports different in R11i as compared to that of 11.0.3 or 10.7 sc?
33) How is workflow development different in R11i as compared to that in 11.0.3?
34) Can you tell me some structural differences Oracle workflow 2.5 as compared to Oracle
workflow 2.0?
35) Have you done any migration projects?
36) Have you done any reports migrations?
37) What kind of problems did you face during migrating reports from old version to the R11i
version?
38) Did you develop any reports across different modules?
39) Can you tell me some functional differences between 10.7sc and 11.0.3 and the latest release
11i?
40) Which modules are you most comfortable with?
41) What sort of work have you done in these modules?
42) Can you give me some examples of reports and workflows you have done?
43) Have you done any interfaces / conversions?
44) What kind of work did you do in interfaces?
45) Can you code programs in Java?

Workflow ques:(1 to 31)

1) Which workflow u have customized?
2) What is need of customization and what have u done?
3) How can u send the email notification?
4) What is the performer?
5) How can u launch workflow from Oracle apps forms and through Oracle Apps only?
6) Can u call function from workflow?
7) What are the different types of attribute and how they can be used?
8) How to create a new workflow ? Explain step by step
9) What are the mostly used lookup types?
10) Have can u create ur own lookup types?
11) How can we attach attributes to message?
12) Can u delete the existing workflow..if yes how can u do the same?
13) Explain different workflow table and what for they used?
14) How version of wf can be maintained?
15) how can u know which workflow is being used ,using tables?
16) Suppose u have modified a workflow and if wanna get the earlier version of WF how
could u get the same?
17) Can u write commit in a worlkflow and why?
18) What is the wf standard?
19) How to pass parameters to wf from Forms?
20) Can u call WF from Sql ?
21) What is timeout mode?
22) Can u used call a process in same process?
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Means suppose u have got one process say A and u are using Process B in Process A.. So
can u call Process B again in Process A?
23) What are workflow API? Which API u have used? What’s use?
24) Can U debug the workflow? If yes .. How can u do this?
25) How can I launch wf from concurrent program??
26) How can u display Notification in HTML format ? What are the steps?
27) How can I restrict the database to enter the data in WF tables which maintain the log of
launching of workflows?
28) What is event in workflow?
29) How can I Set the notification format ?(either Text or HTML)
30) How can I run the workflow from the same position where WF has been stuck up up
because of error?
31) Can we launch another wf from a wf?

1) Which modules hv u worked on?

2) Was your work involved related to forms/reports?
3) How many forms/reports have you designed/customised.
4) Brief about one form/report you have designed or customised.
5) What are basic steps involved in designing a report?
6) what are basic user_exits used in reports?
7) How to register a report in APPS.
8) What are various triggers in reports and their sequence.
9) Why do we need to use placeholder?
10)How to pass parameters to a report?
11)What is a must parameter in report?
11)What r basic libraries need to be attached in a form?
12)Can we ignore them?
13)What is multi-org environment?
14)Could you brief about the tree of multi-org?
15)How many types of values sets are there in APPS?
16)Can we define dependant value set?
Oracle Apps Questions
1. What is parameter in apps and from where we can create it.
2. What all are the tables used in the modules u have worked on.
3. What is profile? Explain different levels of profile.
4. How to restrict the data for a responsibility as per the ORG ID.
5. Which flexfield qualifiers are mandatory?
6. Can we see our data of RA_CUSTOMER (Account Receivables) in Order Management?
7. Difference between versions of Apps.(Front end & database)
8. What is the difference between report development and report customization?
9. How to change the forms and reports from older versions to newer version (For D2K)
10. What is Multi Org and What is the Structure of Multi Org?
11. What are the Default Types for Parameters. What is the use of each one of it.
12. Different type of execution methods in Conc. Progs. Explain Each Type.
13. What is workflow and what is the benefit of using workflow?
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14. What are the factors for application developer responsibility?
15. What are basic changes you will made when converting reports or forms from previous
versions to new versions (6)
16. What are major uses of work Flow Builder and what is the impact of this workflow
compared to previous Apps versions?
17. What are the differences between executable and concurrent program
18. Is it mandatory to use API’s (like Fnd INIT, FND Flex, FND Exit) in forms and reports
when working in Apps environment?
19. What other responsibilities Application Developer can contain?
20. Oracle /PLSQL/Forms/Reports
21. What is mutating table
22. What is function security?
23. What is performance tuning and How you will do the tracing
1) Use of placeholder columns
2) Reports trigger and execution hierarchy
Before parameter form,
After Parameter form Trigger
Before report trigger
Between pages,
After report trigger
3) New features of forms6i
4) Various triggers in forms
5) How to attach plsql Lib in forms
6) Difference between forms 4.5 & 6i
7) In reports, what is flex mode and Confine mode
8) Difference between Bind parameter and Lexical Parameter.
19.How u customize a report tell me the step and what changes u have made?
20. Use of query find and how will u used it
21.Use Of Format_Currency User Exit it used for currency conversion

12)What is BO and FACT.(Datawarehousing)

13)what is open quantity

14)Expalin about the receiving process.

17)Relation between order entry and accounts recievable.

44. What do you mean by HZ_ in customer tables ?

171. If the valueset if of type –TABLE then how many tables can we attach in the valueset ?
172. If any conflict occurs in FSG the who will override Column Set or Row Set ?
174. What are the setup steps for testing ?
54. What are User Exits ?
60. How the data is moved from external source (legacy system) to gl_daily_rates table
1. What is Oracle Applications Seeded Tables or Seeded Data?
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2. What is the difference between FND_CLIENT_INFO.SET_ORG_CONTEXT and
FND_GLOBAL.APPS_INITIALIZE ?

1. How do you find if the Setup is Multi org or not ?

2. Can you call FND_REQUEST.SUBMIT_REQUEST from Database Triggers ?

3. I have a report say for example the Pending Orders Report. Now I would like to
Print around 10 copies of the same, How do you achieve this ?

4. Let us take a scenario where Oracle Purchasing is implemented for an Organization at US.
They have various locations of operations at US who use the same Purchasing system.
The Locations of the operations are New York, Boston, Connecticut. Each of these have a
separate site level printer assigned as Profile option. However Users have their User level
profile option also been set. A User from Boston travels to Connecticut his user level profile
option for Printer is setup as Connecticut printer. now he wants to take a print of a Purchase
order report from Connecticut. Which Printer prints the report ?

5. How do I run a shell script as a concurrent program?

6. When PLSQL stored procedure concurrent programs error out with: 'Invalid number of
arguments'?

7. Is it possible to make a descriptive flexfield non-updateable?

8. Can I have multiple descriptive flexfields on one table?

9. When do I use table-validated value sets instead of independent value sets?

10. How do I find out which tables and forms use descriptive flexfields?

11. Is there a way to compile flexfields and generate flexfield views from the command prompt
(command line)?

12. Can I use $FLEX$ within key flexfields in relation to validation tables?

13. Is it possible to customize the flexfield appearance?

14. Where do concurrent request logfiles and output files go?

15. What are the logfile and output file naming conventions?

16. How do I generate a message file (usaeng.msb)?

17. How do I set the name of the site that shows up under Help->About Oracle Applications?
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18. I changed a profile option, but it doesn't seem to take effect?

19. How to find an event alert trigger?

20. How to create a custom application?

21. How to preserve customizations through an upgrade?

22. What is the difference between a request set and a request group?

23. How do I run reports from the command line?

24. Name the built-in to populate WHO columns of custom tables in forms during insert and
update?

25. How to disable the menu entry HELP–>ABOUT_THIS_RECORD for a block that are based
on a table, but do not have WHO columns?

26. Name the directories where you have to copy your Fmb and Fmx files?

27. What are the standard libraries available in template form?

28. Which form objects we should not use?

29. What is use of APPDAYPK library?

30. What are the triggers we should not modify?

11. How do u take of the report parameters in apps?
12. Which built in is used to take care of reports having Flexfileds?
13. What are the Apps standards in creating a Custom Form?
14. How do u port a form created on Windows platform to Unix platform?
15. Significance of ALL in Apps tables?
65. How do u register a Concurrent Programme in Oracle Apps?
6. How do u enable Zoom facility in apps?
1. What is custom development ?
2. What is customization?
3. Compare Custom development & customization. When they are used and Why ?
4. What are the steps you have to follow to register a custom application?
5. How do you find out the FMB file name?
6. Name the directory having the FORMS source codes ( FMB files ) ?
7. What is template form?
8. What are the steps you have to follow to register a Form?
9. What is a Form function?
10. What is Form sub function?
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11. How the form sub function is implemented?
12. What is folder form?
13. Name the directories where you have to copy your Fmb and Fmx files?
14. Why we have to maintain the file names in Capital Letter? ( Library/FMB)
15. What is naming convention for Data base trigger?
16. What is naming convention for unique Constraint?
17. What is naming convention for Primary key Constraint?
18. Can we put all the logic in the trigger?
19. What is item handler package?
20. What is event handler package?
21. What is table handler package?
22. What are the standard libraries available in template form?
23. What is who column and how you set the values?
24. What is use of custom library?
25. How can you change the default menu bar action?
26. What is use of APPCORE library?
27. What is a reference trigger? Can we modify a reference trigger?
28. Why we have to create packages instead of procedures / functions?
29. Can you comment your form? How?
30. Which form objects we should not use?
31. What is use of APPDAYPK library?
32. What is use of FNDSQF library?
33. Can we change the profile value ? How ?
34. Can we modify all the trigger?
35. What are the triggers we should not modify?
36. Shall we delete exiting triggers?

Questions

1. What is the Relationship between Request Group, Data group, Responsibility, Users and
Menu.
2. Tables are need to be registered when used for ALERT, FORMS, AUDITING purpose
(by using ADD_DD package)
3. When a request group is assigned to responsibility then its called REQUEST SECURITY
GROUP.
4. What is SRS (Standard Request Submission)
5. Following tables are used for users and responsibility info. FND_USER,
FND_RESPONSIBILITY_VL (maid up of FND_RESPONSIBILITY_TL,
RESPONSIBILITY).
6. Type of concurrent managers – Internal, Standard, Specialized, Library based manager,
conflict resolution manager.
7. What is conflict resolution/Incompatibility/Conflict Domain in concurrent program
8. Go to system responsibility to register concurrent program.
9. Path to put reports for concurrent program.
$CUS_TOP = apps/visappl/cus/11.5.0/
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Cd /apps/visappl/cus/11.5.0/reports/US

For SQL query (normal and parameterized)

$CUS_TOP = apps/visappl/cus/11.5.0/
Cd /apps/visappl/cus/11.5.0/sql

For SQL*Loader scripts

$CUS_TOP = apps/visappl/cus/11.5.0/
Cd /apps/visappl/cus/11.5.0/bin

10. What is the use of FND_FILE

11. What are the server side and client side concepts in PL/SQL APIs
12. Using FND_REQUEST.SUBMIT_REQUEST we can call one concurrent program from
other concurrent program. For testing in on sql prompt we have to set the SQL
environment for Apps support by executing following procedure.
exec
FND_GLOBAL.APPS_INITIALIZE(user_id,resp_id,resp_appl_id,security_group_id).
(Parameter values will be available from help menu/examine tab.)

13. Value set can be registered as a Application Developer Responsibility.

14. When creating table based value, in the where clause we have to follow the following
syntax
WHERE column_name =:$FLEX$.param_name (this useful to refer the above one parameter
in the query).
What is ADDITIONAL COLUMNS fields (Which is after WHERE clause field) when we
create the table based Value set.

15. What is context sensitivity, global fields, and reference flex fields in DFF.
16. In KFF only independent Value Sets can be used for different segments and all segments
of type Varchar2.
17. What is Flex Field Qualifier, What is Segment Qualifier, What is Rollup Groups in
ACCOUNTING KFF.
18. In DFF ATTRIBUTE_CATEGORY field is the column which stores the Structure of the
DFF.
19. How to open new periods ? and how to create a new period.

Oracle Corporation

Dt:12-06-2003

1. Tell me about your-self?

2. Which interface you has developed?
3. What are steps of interface tell me briefly?

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4. What are the validations you have done in uploading date from Pre interface-to-interface table?
5. What are the forms you have customized and developed?
6. What is your role to develop a new form?
7. Who is giving you specification?
8. What’s are the step to develop a new form?
9. What are the problems you had faced after developing a new form’s?
10. Is this form is working fine or not?
11. Tell me about the functionality of the new form you have developed?

GE Industries

1. Tell me about your self?

2. What is AOL?
3. Which module you are comfortable in?
4. How you are rating your self in PL/SQL, Reports, Forms, and Modules?
5. What is value set and what are the types of value set?
6. What is Flex field and tell me briefly?
7. Tell me PO & Inventory flow?
8. What are the report’s you have developed & customized?
9. What is lexical & Bind parameter.
10. What is the step to develop new forms?
11. What are the concurrent steps?
12. How many reports you have developed?
13. How to registered a report in Apps environment?

HCl questions
Functional
Types of Manufacturing? WIP used in which type of manufacturing?
Flow of Mfg. PO & OM
Order cycle
Types of PO
Table names, column names, mandatory columns (why)
FND packages?
How do you set a printer a value thru FND package?
What is the transaction type?
Shipment, pricing tables?
Concept of Drop shipment?
How does the data flow from OM to Inv?

Interface
What is the steps?
What are the errors in SQL *Loaders?
What is BAD files, Discard files, Control file, Data file?
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How do you create stagng / pre-interface table?
In BOM, there is API and open interface. In which situation will you use API and when you use
Open Interface?

Reports
How do you register a report?
What are the different triggers in report?
How do you format a column?
What are the different columns in reports?
What is a user-exit? What is the use of Flexsql, Flexidval?
What is the use of DISPLAY?
Can you have more than one layout in report?

Workflow
How do you customize the workflow?
How many processes involved in Workflow?
What is the use of Selector Function?
How do you send a notification to respective authority?
How do you launch a workflow?
What is the API in workflow to submit a request?
What are they look-up types in Workflow?
What is Funcmode, Resultout?
What is the packages / APIs - WF?
What is the table of WF used in order workflow?
How do you sent a notification?
What is the use of Order_type column in Oracle Order workflow?
How do you check the error occured in workflow?
How do you identify the stuck processes in workflow? WF_RESOURCES
What is difference between Access level, protection level and customization level?
What are the Funcmods?

Forms
How do you customize a form?
Can you have more than one canvas in a form?
How do you add a column in form?
What are the different trigger in a form?
Form level - Block level - Item level
What is the sequence of trigger?
What is dirrence between POST-TEXT and WHEN-VALIDATE-ITEM?
How do you add a descriptive flexfield in a form?

Other
What is Errbuf, Retcode?
What is Value-set?
What is diffence between KFF and DFF?
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Mascot Question
1. Tell me bout Ur self?
2. What Module Ur comfortable?
3. Which project u worked on and how much u comfortable?
4. Rate ur self in forms, reports&pl/sql?
5. What is database tuning?
6. How does u test the reports in oracle application?
7. What is Matrix Report How many groups r there and how many queries u can use?
8. Tell me bout PO life cycle?
9. How u upgrades the reports from 10.7 to 11i?
10. Have used any flexfield in forms and reports?
11. How u defines reports parameter in oracle application?
12. How many forms and reports u upgrades and develop?
13. How much time u takes for completing ur assignment or hand over to other person?
What is Ur notice period?
14. Who is Ur client and which module ur comfortable?
15. Which table u defines item and what is the Interface table u used in item transaction?
16. What is multiorg & which level u define item?
17. Currently ur working on Mutliorg or single Organization?

1. Tell the details of project recently worked on?

2. What was the role?
3. What are the strong points and what are you comfortable in?
4. What are the different modules you worked on?
5. Why is interaction history loaded?
6. What is resource manager?
7. From where do you import different resources?
8. What is workflow?
9. What are different types of notifications?
10. What workflows you have developed, why and give complete details?
11. What are complete modules of CRM?
12. What is tuning?
13. How do you achieve it?
14. How to use the index in query? What is it called?
15. What is SQL loader?
16. What does it do?
17. What is syntax?
18. What are different types of trigger on table?
19. What are types of trigger? (Row/statement)
20. What are reports?
21. What is Discoverer?
22. What is difference between discoverer and reports?
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23. How to get formatted output from PLSQL?
24. what is methods in jsp?

WorkFlow FAQ General

1. About Workflow General

2. Oracle Workflow 2.6
3. License
4. Background Engine
5. Builder
6. Commit Issues
7. Delete Issues
8. Install Problems
9. Error handling
10. Applications
11. Mailer Setup
12. Utilities
13. Looping
14. Monitor
15. Notifications
16. Problem Spotting
17. Security

About Workflow General

1. What is Oracle Workflow Cartridge and how does this relate to earlier Workflow products ?
2. What platforms is it available on?
3. When will translated versions be available?
4. If I create custom workflows in 2.03, how do I upgrade to 2.5?
5. If I create custom workflows in 2.5, how do I upgrade to 2.6?
6 What are the major components of the workflow system?
8 Does Workflow integrate with LDAP or NDIS compliant directory
9 Can Workflow work on a distributed database?
10 What platform is Workflow currently available on?
11 How does Oracle Workflow differ from Oracle Alert?
12 What electronic mail systems can I use in conjunction with Oracle Workflow Notifications?
13 How do I ensure that the correct mail APIs are linked into WFMAIL?
14 What electronic mail systems can I use in conjunction with Oracle Workflow Notifications?
15 What version of Oracle Workflow is supported with Web Apps 2.0.1? For example, can Applications
10.7 Prod 16/16.1 and Oracle Applications for the Web 2.0.1 run with Oracle Workflow 1.x and 2.x ?
16 How do I ensure that the correct mail APIs are linked into WFMAIL?
17 How do I verify the version of Oracle Workflow that I have installed?
18 How do I shut down the Oracle Workflow Notification Mailer in Oracle Applications?
19 How do I send a Summary Only Notification from Oracle Workflow?
20 How do I reorder the information displayed in the Notifications screen on the Web.
21 How do I select the 'File, Load Roles' option when it is greyed out?
22 How does 'Expand Roles' work?
23 How to force a Workflow activity to run in background.
24 How do I create a new Workflow ?
25 Why does Oracle Workflow Builder drag and drop not work the same way as other editors and Object
Navigators?
26 How do I improve performance of my Oracle Workflow Views?
27 How do I define my Workflow time-out periods in business days instead of in hours?
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28 How do I display the Internal Name of an object in the Object Navigator?
29 How do I display the Performer of a Notification in the Process Detail screen ?
30 How do I create a shortcut to my Workflow instance?
31 How do I customize the Account Generator Workflow process for my company?
32 What Access Level should I be using in Oracle Workflow Builder?
33 How do I trace errors in my Workflow processes?
34 When attempting to view concurrent request output or log information in workflow 2.0.3 with Microsoft
Internet Explorer, you receive the error �Authentication failed �. What do you do?

Common Questions for Version 2.6

 1 What's new about Oracle Workflow 2.6?

 2 Can Oracle Workflow 2.6 meet my customers Business Process Integration requirements?
 3 Does Oracle Workflow 2.6 integrate in with MQ*Series or other messaging solutions?
 4 What communication protocols are supported by Oracle Workflow 2.6?
 5 Can custom Java code be integrated in with Oracle Workflow 2.6?
 6 What Data Transformation services does Oracle Workflow 2.6 offer?
 7 What will be the uptake of 9i AQ functionality in future releases of Oracle Workflow 2.6?
 8 What database versions can Oracle Workflow 2.6 be installed in?
 9 Can Oracle Workflow 2.0.3 be upgraded to 2.6 in one step?
 10 In which products is Oracle Workflow 2.6 bundled?
 11 What Web Servers are certified with Oracle Workflow 2.6?
 12 My customer already uses Advanced Queues with their own defined datatype. 
Are they a candidate for Oracle Workflow 2.6?
13 When I go into Global Preferences either as System Administrator or WorkFlow Administrator I get the
following message: "Only Administrators can edit Default settings"
What do I need to do in order to be able to modify the default settings ?
14How do I ensure that workflow processes that are deferred, timed out or that become stuck after the
current background engine starts are processed by the next background engine that is invoked?
15How do I run a Workflow Background Process as a Concurrent Program?
16In which products is Oracle Workflow 2.6.1 bundled?
17How do I access the Workflow Monitor in Standalone Workflow 2.6?
Security

1 Can I reset the protection level of workflow objects stored in the database?
2 It seems insecure that the mailhtml response web page can be accessed by
3 Do HTML attachments have authentication before allowing a response?
4 Does the html attachment update the database, or do you send the filled html form back to the
sender via email?
5 Onced logged in via a browser, is there anyway I can change account without logging in again?
Notifications

1 What does the checkbox Expand Roles do?

2 Customer gets confused as to which notification to respond to when reminders have been sent.
3 Can you send documents/attachments along with notifications (eg word docs, spreadsheets
etc)?
4 Is there a template that can be edited for HTML notifications?
5How does the DOCUMENT type attribute work?
6My notification does not perform token substitution correctly
Utilities
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1 What are the scripts in $WF_TOP/fnd/sql or $wf_top/admin/sql?

2 How do you retrieve the actual Performer's user name?
3 How does the PURGE utility work?
Error Handling

1 What is WF_CORE.RAISE()?

2 Does WF_CORE.RAISE('UNEXPECTED_ERROR') return a null value from PL/SQL?

3 How do I handle WF errors in the package procedures I want to call ?

4 How do you handle WF error using Oracle forms?

5 How do you handle WF error using a WEB front end?

6 Is there any Debugging capability in Workflow?

7 If I discover a modelling error in my process, how do I change all my open workflows onto the
new workflow?>
Install problems

1 Is Oracle Workflow 2.0.3 Cerified with Oracle Application Server 4.0?

2 On installing the server packages I get an error messagewf.ins(163): unregistered product
3 On installing Workflow Embedded in Oracle Apps, the package wfsecicb.sql produces
compilation errors.
4 After installing I get Error 3402: no valid session exists for this user.
5 During an install on NT, I get an error RunTimeError 367 - Cant load or register custom
control 'wfnvg20.ocx'
6 NT Workflow Server install displays error Cannot find file wfrundemo.sql
7 Is iAS certified with Oracle Workflow 2.5?
Delete Issues

1 Get a lot of validation errors when trying to save because of reference to obsolete items. How
do I delete these?

2 When maintaining our workflow, what happens if we update a process or replace a PL/SQL
procedure?

3 Does workflow always execute according to the latest definition for an itemtype?

4 If you use Workflow builder to design a workflow, and save it multiple times into database, it
seems to me that there would be multiple versions of workflow definition in database. Are there
any tools that could delete the older versions and keep the newest version?

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5 How do I completely wipe out workflow definitions from the database?

6 What does wf_purge.total actually do?

7 On aborting a process, how do I delete all the data so that I can restart the process with the
same itemkey?
Commit Issues

1 Can I commit in PL/SQL packages? Why not?

2 What constitutes a single commit cycle in Workflow?

3 Can a workflow process be restarted from the point of failure?

4 How do we send the same item through the same work flow process more than once?

5 How can I tell if a work item already exists?

6 I have a workflow with 2 activities. Are both activities executed in the same SQL session?

7 Can I rollback beyond the activity I am in?

8 Are there any restrictions with starting a WF process from a DB-trigger?

Background Engine

1 How do I defer a process to the background engine?

2 How is WF_STANDARD.Wait implemented? is there any cost involved?

3 Background process is stuck. Can I kill it?

4 Why can I not find WFRESGEN on my pc in the Submit Requests form?

5 What is the difference between WFLOAD and wfload?

zenszr
Apps

1) How will u register RDF file and run it? Tell the Sequence?
Steps a. Save the copy of ur reports in rdf file in ur local directory.
b. Transfer or copy the rdf file to cus_top under reports directory through ftp.
C. Then go concurrent program under executable menu where u define executable file and
program name
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d. Then go to define the program name (which ur executable file name ) and check the srs
box and define the parameter and give the parameter name in token
e. Attach the program(request to ur responsibility )
d run the program and view the out put is srs through ur responsibility
What are different types of value sets ?

2) What is translatable Independent & Dependent ?

The value set used to support the multilingual value set.

Amat:-
Some important questions they may ask u like
1.what do u rate urself in sql and plsql
2.perfomance tuning like hints,sqltrace
3.dynamic sql
4.how are the item quantities stored in the mtl_onhand_quantities table
ans: item quantities are stored as subinventory,locator,item wise
5.what are planning attributes for an item
ans go through the master item screen and you will find the properties
6.what are the types of POs,Requisitions
7.what are the RCV tables.
8.who are buyers and in which tables the buyer info is stored
9.which tables the PO information is stored PO_HEADERS_ALL etc..
10.what are the interface tables in PO and INV.

Inventory
=========
1.item attributes
Imp attributes like nettable property,
2.types of transactions ie issue,receipt,subinventory transfer,interorg transfer
3.what is interorg transfer
4.locator concepts.

Purchasing
==========
1.Types of Purchase Orders (Standard,Blanket etc and differences)
2.Sourcing rules
3.Assignment sets
4.Requisitions
5.Quatations and RFQs
6.Buyer concept

Tables and interface Tables are important imp tables like

MTL_SYSTEM_ITEMS,MTL_MATERIAL_TRANSACTIONS,MTL_ITEM_LOCATIONS
MTL_SUBINVENTORIES,PO_HEADERS_ALL,PO_LINES_ALL,PO_LINE_LOCATIONS
PO_DISTRIBUTIONS,RCV TABLES

1. To briefly explain about the previous projects?

2. How many tables were there in custom application u worked?
3. Flow of the Custom application?
4. Interfaces in Inventory module?
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5. Interfaces in PO Module?
6. What validations are done with Item interface?
7. Organization structure of the Inventory module which u have worked?
8. How do u a register a form in AOL?
9. How u used custom.pll? In what circumstances?
10. Briefly to explain the custom forms created in Apps?
11. How many reports u have developed in apps?
12. Complexity of the custom reports?
13. Whether flexfield involved in the report done, how do u handle the same?
14. How do u enable a flexfield in oracle apps?
15. Have u done any Performance tuning?
16. If there are two indexes on a table, how do u code the SQL to use the second Index?
17. What is the difference between writing code in the Program unit of the form and
as Library file.
18. How do u port the form created in Windows environment to Unix environment?
19. How do u rate yourself in forms, plsql?
20. Minimum number of groups required to create a matrix report?
21. What are all the different triggers in the report?
22. What is the hirearchy in which they fire?
23. What are the different PL/SQL packages used in your application?
24. What is the package name in Oracle apps, which is similar to UTL_FILE?
25. What is PL/SQL Catridge? Where do u use it?
26. What are the different types of errors in PL/SQL?
27. What is outer join? Where do u use the Plus sign in the query?
28. What is the difference between ATO and CTO model?
29. How do u restrict the user to enter value in the DFF?
30. What are the different parameters which we can pass to a report?
31. What is item reivision?
32. What is an item template? What is the use of the same?

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