Aug 1, 2011

Setting Personal Profile options


Lesson Overview
Using profile options, you can control the behavior of certain Oracle Applications features. This lesson explains the levels of profile options and how you can change them to suit your personal business requirements.
Overview of User Profiles
A user profile is a collection of changeable options that affect the way your applications run. Oracle Applications establishes a value for each option in a user’s profile when the user logs on or changes responsibility. You can change the value of a user profile option at any time. Oracle Applications provides this and other options so that you can alter the behavior of your applications to suit your own preferences.
Oracle Applications uses a set of user profiles options that are common to all application products. In addition, each application has its own unique set of user profile options.
User profile options can be set at one or more of four levels:
Site
Application
Responsibility
User
Your system administrator can set default option values at any of these levels.
User Profile Hierarchy
Oracle Applications treats user profile levels as a hierarchy, where User is the highest level of the hierarchy, followed by Responsibility, Application, and at the lowest level, Site. Higher-level option values override lower-level option values.
User Level
User level option values affect the way applications run for a given application user.
Responsibility Level
Responsibility level option values affect the way applications run for all users of a given responsibility.
Application Level
Application level option values affect the way a given application runs.
Site Level
Site level option values affect the way all applications run at a given installation site. Typically, your system administrator will set this option after installing Oracle Applications at a site.
Your Personal User Profile
You can change a user profile option value using the Personal Profile Values window, where you can display all your options and review the values your system administrator has set for them.
If you do not set your own user level option values, your user profile options assume the values your system administrator has set for them at the various levels.
How to Change a Profile Option Value
1. (M) Edit > Preferences > Profiles.
This window displays all your user profile options and their values. If you wish to display only specific user profile options, first choose View > Query By Example > Enter to enter search criteria in the Profile Name field, then choose View > Query By Example > Run to run the search.
The name of the user profile option appears in the Profile Name field while the Default Value field displays the run-time value of that option. The System Administrator sets default values for many of the profile options. Some profile options may not display a default value.
2. Move your cursor to the User Value field of the option whose value you wish to modify.
3. Enter a new value for the option if it is updateable, or if the List icon appears, choose a value from the list of available values.If the profile option is not updateable, the message “Item is protected against update,” appears on the message line when you try to change the value. You can change most of your user profile options; values you enter in the User Value field override values preset by the System Administrator. A few profile options cannot be changed, but are displayed for informational purposes only.
For most personal profile options, Oracle Applications automatically checks the value you enter to ensure it is valid.
Attention: Number or date values are not validated, therefore, you must make sure that you enter a valid value for profile options that require a number or date; otherwise, your personal profile option may not work as you expect.
Though you cannot delete a profile option from your personal profile, you can clear its value (if it is updateable) by highlighting the field and pressing [Backspace] or by choosing Clear, Field from the Edit menu. If you clear the value, the change does not take effect until you sign on again or change responsibilities.
4. (M) File > Save to save your change.
Your change will take effect when you either change responsibilities or log out and log back in.
Defining Personal Profiles Values
All reports and programs in Oracle Applications run as concurrent processes whether you submit them using the Submit Requests window or a product-specific submission window. Submitted reports and programs are referred to as concurrent requests. Each concurrent request runs according to a set of concurrent processing options.
The Personal Profiles Values window sets the defaults for these profiles. If you want to change the value of a default, you must change the value of the corresponding user profile option using the Personal Profiles Values window in your application.
Practice Solution
Navigate to the Profile Values window, (M) Edit > Preferences > Profiles.
Find the Profile name of Concurrent:Report Copies.
Place your cursor in the User Value field and enter 2. Verify that your screen resembles the slide on the following page.
(M) File > Save.







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