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Jan 26 2024
BIP – Extract Address Style Format Information

You use “Manage Address Formats” task from Setup and Maintenance to define the address style for a particular country. Oracle provides a lot of address format for various countries out of the box. You have the capaibility to customize the address formats as per customer requirement.

For example, you can search for all available address style for United Kingdom using country filter:

You can see below details:

You can edit the address format to customize the address style. You can make a seeded attribute mandatory/ non-mandatory or can add a new address element and many more properties can be set:

You can save the changes. And the address format become active.

One of the main challenges, the data migration team and the integration teams face is the mapping of layout fields to actual backend table attribute in per_addresses_f table.

There is no direct way to find the UI attribute name and its corresponding attribute name in backend table. Below query has been developed to find the UI prompt with actual table attribute name:

SELECT ftt.TERRITORY_SHORT_NAME
      ,hsfl.TERRITORY_CODE
      ,hsflb.STYLE_FORMAT_CODE
      ,hsflb.VARIATION_NUMBER
      ,hsflt.PROMPT	  
      ,hsflb.ATTRIBUTE_CODE
      ,hsflb.LINE_NUMBER
      ,hsflb.MANDATORY_FLAG
      ,hsflb.USE_INITIAL_FLAG
      ,hsflb.UPPERCASE_FLAG
      ,hsflb.STATUS_FLAG
      ,hsflb.TRANSFORM_FUNCTION
      ,hsflb.DELIMITER_BEFORE
      ,hsflb.DELIMITER_AFTER
      ,hsflb.BLANK_LINES_BEFORE
      ,hsflb.BLANK_LINES_AFTER
      ,hsflb.START_DATE_ACTIVE
      ,hsflb.END_DATE_ACTIVE
      ,hsflb.DISPLAY_SIZE
  FROM HZ_STYLE_FMT_LAYOUTS_B hsflb 
      ,HZ_STYLE_FMT_LAYOUTS_TL hsflt
      ,HZ_STYLE_FMT_LOCALES hsfl
      ,FND_TERRITORIES_TL ftt
 WHERE hsflb.STYLE_FORMAT_CODE = hsfl.STYLE_FORMAT_CODE
   AND hsflb.STYLE_FMT_LAYOUT_ID = hsflt.STYLE_FMT_LAYOUT_ID
   AND ftt.TERRITORY_CODE = hsfl.TERRITORY_CODE 
   AND ftt.LANGUAGE = 'US'
   AND ftt.LANGUAGE = hsflt.LANGUAGE
   AND ftt.TERRITORY_CODE = 'MX'
ORDER BY hsflb.STYLE_FORMAT_CODE, hsflb.LINE_NUMBER

Output after running above SQL:

Please note:

COUNTY – REGION_1

STATE – REGION_2

PROVINCE – REGION_3

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Jan 16 2024
HDL – Sample file to update Grade name and Grade Step Name

File for Grade Name change:

METADATA|Grade|GradeId|GradeName|GradeCode|SetCode|EffectiveStartDate|EffectiveEndDate
MERGE|Grade|30001221212|New Grade Name|GRADE_9|COMMON|1951/01/01|

File for Grade Step Name change:

METADATA|GradeStep|GradeStepId|GradeId|GradeStepName|EffectiveStartDate|EffectiveEndDate
MERGE|GradeStep|30001451452|30001221212|New GSN Level 1|1951/01/01|

Save the files as Grade.dat and upload them.

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Jan 16 2024
Approvals – Remove Approve/ Reject buttons from Notifications

There are many scenarios where the users don’t want to have Approve/ Reject buttons on the Bell Notifications or the notification received over email.

This can be achieved quite easily using simple settings in BPM.

To remove the Approve/Reject buttons from email:- Disable the “Make Notifications Actionable” option under the appropriate task.

To remove the Approve/Reject buttons from worklist notifications:– Remove task actions from Actions under Access for the particular task:

Make sure to Commit the changes once you make the above suggested changes.

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Jan 16 2024
HDL – Sample HDL file to End Date Position Valid Grades

There can multiple grades assigned as Valid grade at Position level or Job level. However, there is no direct way to end date the valid grades in bulk.

You can end date a valid grade from responsive UI. But it will be a lot of manual effort. You can search for Position and then navigate to Grades section. Then update the position and click on small delete icon next to Grade name (which you want to end date). This will end date the valid grade with an effective end date = date of position update – 1.

To do this in bulk using HDL, you can’t use DELETE command. If you use DELETE command, it will completely Purge the valid grade record from Position. To end date the valid grade, use “ReplaceLastEffectiveEndDate” attribute in the file.

Below is the sample file:

METADATA|PositionGrade|BusinessUnitName|PositionCode|EffectiveStartDate|EffectiveEndDate|GradeCode|GradeSetCode|ReplaceLastEffectiveEndDate
MERGE|PositionGrade|Progress US Business Unit|PRGUSPOS032|2018/12/31|2023/12/31|Hourly01|PRGUSGRADESET|Y

EffectiveStartDate – Earliest Grade Start Date

EffectiveEndDate – Date on which you want to end date the grade.

Once the file is loaded successfully, below is how the data will look in the backend:

Below SQL query can be used to extract valid grades data:

SELECT DISTINCT 
	   TO_CHAR (pvgf.effective_start_date, 'DD/MON/YYYY') effective_start_date,
	   TO_CHAR (pvgf.effective_end_date, 'DD/MON/YYYY') effective_end_date,
	   pjfv.POSITION_CODE,
	   pjfv.name job_name,
	   pgfv.grade_code,
	   pgfv.name grade_name,
	   pvgf.valid_grade_id,
	   pgfv.grade_id,
	   pjfv.job_id
  FROM per_valid_grades_f pvgf,
       HR_ALL_POSITIONS_F_VL pjfv,
       per_grades_f_vl pgfv 
 WHERE 1=1
   AND pvgf.position_id = pjfv.position_id
   AND pvgf.grade_id = pgfv.grade_id
   AND pjfv.POSITION_CODE = 'PRGUSPOS032'
   AND pvgf.effective_start_date BETWEEN pjfv.effective_start_date AND pjfv.effective_end_date
   AND pvgf.effective_start_date BETWEEN pgfv.effective_start_date AND pgfv.effective_end_date
ORDER BY POSITION_CODE,grade_code
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