REQUEST-RUN
Use this window to run a request or request set. For help on a specific report, open the parameters window and press the help button. If the report you chose has no parameters, you can see help by choosing from the list of products and reports.
SUBMITTING A REQUEST
Standard Request Submission gives you control over how you run your requests and request sets. This section describes how you customize and submit a request using the Submit Requests window. You can submit as many requests as you like from the Submit Requests window. You can even submit a request more than once if you want to run the same request with different parameter values.
Refer to the reference guide of your Oracle Applications product to learn how to access the Submit Requests window from your application. Attention: Some applications provide access to the Submit Requests window from multiple menu choices. However, the list of requests that you can run and the name of the window itself may vary depending on the navigation path you use to access the window.
REQUEST – VIEW
Use the Requests window to view a list of your submitted requests that are scheduled to run in the next 24 hours, completed within the last 24 hours, or are currently running. Use the Completed Requests window to view a list of all your completed concurrent requests.
REQUEST – SET – DEFINING REQUEST SET
By defining request sets, you can submit the same set of requests regularly using a single transaction. You use the Request Set window to create and edit request sets. Refer to the reference guide for your Oracle Applications product to learn how to access the Request Set window.
Attention: Some Oracle Applications products do not allow you to create request sets. These products do not have the Request Set window available.
To create a request set:
1. Navigate to the Request Set window.
2. Enter a Name for your request set.
3. Enter the Application with which you want to associate your request set.
4. Enter a Description of your request set if you like.
5. The Owner field defaults to your username and can only be changed by your system administrator.
6. Enter a Start Date and an End Date to define an effective period when you and others can run the request set. If the current date is outside the range you define, the request set will not be available in the Submit Requests window.
7. Choose between the Sequential (one at a time in order) and Parallel (at the same time) options to specify how you want to run the requests in your request set. If you want to create a request set where a request depends on the results of a prior request, define your request set to run sequentially.
8. Check the Print Together check box to send all your requests to the printer together when they complete, or uncheck the check box to send each request one at a time to the printer as it completes.
9. For a sequential request set, check the Abort on Error check box to stop the request set upon an error or uncheck the check box to continue running the rest of the requests if an error occurs.
If your request cannot run because it has been disabled, your request set fails even if you do not check the Abort on Error check box.
10. Check the Incompatibilities Allowed check box to allow your system administrator to specify programs that this request is incompatible with (may not run with). Leave Incompatibilities Allowed unchecked to specify that this request set may run with all other concurrent requests or request sets.
Requests Block
In the Requests block you define which requests you want to include in the request set.
11. Enter a Sequence to specify the order the requests run in a sequential request set.
12. Select the Name of a report or program you want to include in your request set. A description of the request you c choose and its associated application appears in the Description and Application fields.
The list of requests you can choose includes the requests that your responsibility's request group lets you access from the Submit Requests form.
13. The Print Options region reflects the options for the current request. Specify the number of Copies of output to print, the Style to print, the Printer to print to, and whether to save the output to an operating system file.
Standard Request Submission saves these options so you do not have to specify them again when you run the request set. If you do not wish to specify these options for each request when you define the set, Standard Request Submission uses the values of your personal profile options as the default when you submit the request set. See: Default Values of Concurrent Processing Options. Note: Some requests may have a required Style or Printer that you cannot change.
14. When you are done with the print options, choose Parameters to display the Request Parameters window.
Request Parameters Window
The Request Parameters window lets you customize the parameter values of a specific request in a request set. The fields at the top of the Request Parameters window list general information about the current request set and the request for which you can customize the parameters values. The multi-row portion of the window lists the parameters for that request.
15. The Sequence field displays the order in which each request parameter appears when you run the request in the Submit Requests window (lower numbers appear before higher numbers). Only your system administrator can change a parameter's order.
16. The Prompt field is a display-only field that shows the request parameter's prompt.
17. Check the Display check box to specify that you can see a request parameter at submission time, or uncheck the check box to specify that a parameter should not be displayed at submission time.
18. Check the Modify check box to specify that you can insert or change the value for a request parameter at submission time, or uncheck the check box to specify that a parameter cannot be changed at submission time.
19. Use the Shared Parameter field to set a default value for a parameter that occurs in more than one report or program of a request set. Once you enter the same parameter label in the Shared Parameter field for each occurrence of the same parameter, the value that you assign to the first occurrence of the parameter becomes the default value for all subsequent occurrences of the parameter. The shared parameter label simply enables you to set an initial default value for all occurrences of the same parameter so you can avoid typing the same value all over again for every occurrence of the parameter.
For example, suppose you define a request set that includes three reports and all reports include a parameter called "Set of Books." You want the "Set of Books" parameter to default to the same initial value in all reports. To accomplish this, enter a label called "Book" in the Shared Parameter field for the first occurrence of this parameter. You can also assign a value in the Default Value field of this parameter now or wait until you run the request set to assign a default value when the parameter first appears. Enter the label "Book" in the Shared Parameter field of all other occurrences of the "Set of Books" parameter in your request set. When you submit this request set from the Submit Requests window, every parameter that you label "Book" defaults to the value you assign to the first occurrence of the "Set of Books" parameter.
Attention: Note that if you later change the value of a parameter that contains a shared parameter label, you change only the value for that instance of the parameter, and not the value for all other occurrences of that labelled parameter.
We recommend that if you make a parameter with a shared parameter label modifiable, that you also display the parameter so you can always see what the parameter's current value is. This helps reinforce the understanding that a later value change to one labelled parameter cannot propagate a value change to all other similarly labelled parameters.
20. Optionally enter a default Type and Value for the parameter.
21. Save your work.
22. Go back to the Requests block of the Request Sets window and repeat Steps 1 through 10
to add more requests to the request set.
You can select a request more than once if you want to run the same request with
Use this window to run a request or request set. For help on a specific report, open the parameters window and press the help button. If the report you chose has no parameters, you can see help by choosing from the list of products and reports.
SUBMITTING A REQUEST
Standard Request Submission gives you control over how you run your requests and request sets. This section describes how you customize and submit a request using the Submit Requests window. You can submit as many requests as you like from the Submit Requests window. You can even submit a request more than once if you want to run the same request with different parameter values.
Refer to the reference guide of your Oracle Applications product to learn how to access the Submit Requests window from your application. Attention: Some applications provide access to the Submit Requests window from multiple menu choices. However, the list of requests that you can run and the name of the window itself may vary depending on the navigation path you use to access the window.
REQUEST – VIEW
Use the Requests window to view a list of your submitted requests that are scheduled to run in the next 24 hours, completed within the last 24 hours, or are currently running. Use the Completed Requests window to view a list of all your completed concurrent requests.
REQUEST – SET – DEFINING REQUEST SET
By defining request sets, you can submit the same set of requests regularly using a single transaction. You use the Request Set window to create and edit request sets. Refer to the reference guide for your Oracle Applications product to learn how to access the Request Set window.
Attention: Some Oracle Applications products do not allow you to create request sets. These products do not have the Request Set window available.
To create a request set:
1. Navigate to the Request Set window.
2. Enter a Name for your request set.
3. Enter the Application with which you want to associate your request set.
4. Enter a Description of your request set if you like.
5. The Owner field defaults to your username and can only be changed by your system administrator.
6. Enter a Start Date and an End Date to define an effective period when you and others can run the request set. If the current date is outside the range you define, the request set will not be available in the Submit Requests window.
7. Choose between the Sequential (one at a time in order) and Parallel (at the same time) options to specify how you want to run the requests in your request set. If you want to create a request set where a request depends on the results of a prior request, define your request set to run sequentially.
8. Check the Print Together check box to send all your requests to the printer together when they complete, or uncheck the check box to send each request one at a time to the printer as it completes.
9. For a sequential request set, check the Abort on Error check box to stop the request set upon an error or uncheck the check box to continue running the rest of the requests if an error occurs.
If your request cannot run because it has been disabled, your request set fails even if you do not check the Abort on Error check box.
10. Check the Incompatibilities Allowed check box to allow your system administrator to specify programs that this request is incompatible with (may not run with). Leave Incompatibilities Allowed unchecked to specify that this request set may run with all other concurrent requests or request sets.
Requests Block
In the Requests block you define which requests you want to include in the request set.
11. Enter a Sequence to specify the order the requests run in a sequential request set.
12. Select the Name of a report or program you want to include in your request set. A description of the request you c choose and its associated application appears in the Description and Application fields.
The list of requests you can choose includes the requests that your responsibility's request group lets you access from the Submit Requests form.
13. The Print Options region reflects the options for the current request. Specify the number of Copies of output to print, the Style to print, the Printer to print to, and whether to save the output to an operating system file.
Standard Request Submission saves these options so you do not have to specify them again when you run the request set. If you do not wish to specify these options for each request when you define the set, Standard Request Submission uses the values of your personal profile options as the default when you submit the request set. See: Default Values of Concurrent Processing Options. Note: Some requests may have a required Style or Printer that you cannot change.
14. When you are done with the print options, choose Parameters to display the Request Parameters window.
Request Parameters Window
The Request Parameters window lets you customize the parameter values of a specific request in a request set. The fields at the top of the Request Parameters window list general information about the current request set and the request for which you can customize the parameters values. The multi-row portion of the window lists the parameters for that request.
15. The Sequence field displays the order in which each request parameter appears when you run the request in the Submit Requests window (lower numbers appear before higher numbers). Only your system administrator can change a parameter's order.
16. The Prompt field is a display-only field that shows the request parameter's prompt.
17. Check the Display check box to specify that you can see a request parameter at submission time, or uncheck the check box to specify that a parameter should not be displayed at submission time.
18. Check the Modify check box to specify that you can insert or change the value for a request parameter at submission time, or uncheck the check box to specify that a parameter cannot be changed at submission time.
19. Use the Shared Parameter field to set a default value for a parameter that occurs in more than one report or program of a request set. Once you enter the same parameter label in the Shared Parameter field for each occurrence of the same parameter, the value that you assign to the first occurrence of the parameter becomes the default value for all subsequent occurrences of the parameter. The shared parameter label simply enables you to set an initial default value for all occurrences of the same parameter so you can avoid typing the same value all over again for every occurrence of the parameter.
For example, suppose you define a request set that includes three reports and all reports include a parameter called "Set of Books." You want the "Set of Books" parameter to default to the same initial value in all reports. To accomplish this, enter a label called "Book" in the Shared Parameter field for the first occurrence of this parameter. You can also assign a value in the Default Value field of this parameter now or wait until you run the request set to assign a default value when the parameter first appears. Enter the label "Book" in the Shared Parameter field of all other occurrences of the "Set of Books" parameter in your request set. When you submit this request set from the Submit Requests window, every parameter that you label "Book" defaults to the value you assign to the first occurrence of the "Set of Books" parameter.
Attention: Note that if you later change the value of a parameter that contains a shared parameter label, you change only the value for that instance of the parameter, and not the value for all other occurrences of that labelled parameter.
We recommend that if you make a parameter with a shared parameter label modifiable, that you also display the parameter so you can always see what the parameter's current value is. This helps reinforce the understanding that a later value change to one labelled parameter cannot propagate a value change to all other similarly labelled parameters.
20. Optionally enter a default Type and Value for the parameter.
21. Save your work.
22. Go back to the Requests block of the Request Sets window and repeat Steps 1 through 10
to add more requests to the request set.
You can select a request more than once if you want to run the same request with
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