The Feature

This feature of the week is for anyone using Oracle Projects 11i plus. The Feature When using certain responsibilities the ‘Close Other Forms’ option in the Navigator window, ‘Tools’ menu is protected against an update. Solution The function ‘Navigator: Disable Multiform’ needs to be included in menu exclusions of the given responsibility. As System Administrator: Navigate to Security > Responsibility > [...]

This feature is for anyone using Oracle Purchasing, Payables and Projects 11i and beyond. I’ve been asked today to provide a solution for recording project-related receipt accruals in Oracle, and was very pleased when I found out this was a standard functionality. A summary of my research [from four different Oracle user guides] is available [...]

This feature is for anyone using Oracle Projects and Receivables 11.5.10 and beyond. There were several new features introduced to Projects 10.5.10 (Family Pack M), which now require additional [not quite documented] configurations for the Receivables interface to work. I find myself scrambling to make the interface work everytime I run it the first time [...]

Web Applications Desktop Integrator (Web ADI) is a self-service Oracle application, accessed using a browser. Unlike ADI, the  Web ADI software is not installed on individual client machines, as the processing takes place on the server rather than on individual client PCs. Web ADI generates Microsoft Excel or Word documents on your desktop, and downloads the [...]

Here is an updated compilation of application-related blogs I read and know about at this point. AppsBI : Applications Business Intelligence By Nilesh Jethwa. Nilesh has worked on various reporting, Data warehousing, Daily Business Intelligence, Discoverer and Enterprise Planning and Budgeting projects and wants to share and write about different BI tools and techniques. He enjoys [...]

This feature of the week is for anyone using Oracle HRMS and Purchasing 11.5.10. When the contingent worker functionality was rolled out to Oracle Financials in this release, (see the original story from February 2006), the contractors could charge their time and expenses to projects, and have their costs calculated based on their time or [...]