Oracle EBS / Oracle Apps Alerts

What are Oracle Alerts?

A: Oracle Alerts monitor your Database information and notify you when the
condition that you have specified is found. You can define Alerts in any Oracle
application or custom Oracle application. Some applications (Purchasing, for
example) supply Alerts that Can simply be activated and used. There are two type of
Alerts, Event and Periodic.

Event Based Alerts : These Alerts are fired/triggered based on some change in data
in the database.

Ex: If u want to notify your manager when you create an item in the inventory you
can use event based alerts. When you create an item in the inventory it will cretae
a new record in mtl_system_items_b, here inserting a record in the table is an
event so when ever a new record is inserted it will send the alert.In same alert
you can also send the information related to that particular item

Periodic Alerts : These Alerts are triggered hourly,daily, weekly, monthly or

yearly based on your input.

Ex: If you want to know list of items created
use periodic alerts repeating periodically by
any chages to database.this alert will notify
exists or not that means even if no items are
notification.
on that day at the end of day you can
single day.This alert is not based on
you everyday regardless of data
created you wil get a blank

Q: What types of actions can be generated when an Alert is triggered?

A: When an alert is triggered or the event is true, the alert can Email a Message,
Submit a concurrent program request, Run a SQL statement Script or Run an operating
system script.

Q: Can I build an Alert to run with my custom applications or tables?

A: Event or Periodic Alerts can work with any custom application, as long as the
application is properly registered within the Oracle Applications package.

Q: Which Email packages work with Alerts?

A: Oracle Alert is designed to work with Oracle Office, Oracle Interoffice, UNIX
Send mail, and VMS Mail.

Q: Can Alerts be triggered by other Tools? (i.e. other than Oracle Forms and
concurrent programs)
A: Oracle Alerts can only be triggered from an application that has been registered
in Oracle Applications. Alerts cannot be triggered via SQL updates or deletes to an
Alert activated trigger.

Q: What is Response Processing?

A: Response processing is a component of Alerts which allows the recipients of an
alert to reply with a message and have the applications take some action based on
the response. Response Processing only works with Oracle Mail Products.