Entries by Oracle ERP Apps Guide

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What is Fan Trap in Discoverer and how it handles them?

Fan Trap is a situation while running discoverer reports that return unexpected results due to a group of joined database tables. The most common manifestation of a fan trap occurs when a master table is joined to two or more detail tables independently. If you use a straightforward SQL statement to aggregate data points here, […]

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Initial Setup in JDeveloper for OAF Development

If you want to do some OAF Development in JDeveloper for the first time, you will need to do the following things. 1] Download JDeveloper Patch Based on your instance release level, check out the version of JDeveloper to use using below link. https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&type=NOT&id=416708.1 You can identify the OA Framework version in your instance by activating […]

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Registering Custom PLSQL Functions in Discoverer

Although Discoverer provides many functions for calculation in reports, sometime we require to use custom PL/SQL functions to meet additional Discoverer end user requirements (for example, to provide a complicated calculation). For this we first need to create the functions in database through Toad or other PL/SQL editors. To access custom PL/SQL functions using Discoverer, […]