What is Human Resources Management?

This is nothing but the labor force or personnel.

Human Resources Management is used for addressing the employees aspect of this continuous
improvement. It helps the enterprises in reviewing and improving their business functions related to the
personnel management
What are core flex field?
Job, Position, Grade, Competence
Payroll Flex Fields are: People Group, Cost Allocation
What are two modes of date Track and what is date track?
Update, Correction
Date tracking is to maintain a continuous history of the record of information over a period of time.
You can use date track history to view a report of every update ever made time and records.
The two DateTrack command icons on your window toolbar are:

Alter Effective Date

View DateTrack History
How is employment information maintained in Oracle HRMS?
At table level, employee records are stored with effective start date and end date. Whenever you change
any record in the Employee record in UPDATE mode, a new row is created at back-end. Hence history gets
stored in system. At front end you have option.
What are six validation types?
Dependent, Independent, None, Special, Pair, Table
What are list types?
List of Values, Long List of Values, Pop List
What are basic setups of oracle HRMS?
In oracle HRMS there are many modules like Core HR, Payroll, Self Service HR, OLM, iRecruitment,
Time and Labor, Compensation Work bench, Oracle Advanced Benefits, PMS.
Core HR and System Administrator is the Heart of Oracle HRMS.
All Basic setups will do in Core HR with the help of System Administrator.
System Administrator: We will create all Users, Responsibilities, Flex Fields, Profile Values.
Core HR: We will create all Organizations, Locations, Jobs, Positions, Grades, Position Hierarchy,
Organization Hierarchy; these are the basic setups IN HRMS.
How to restrict the users to see the payroll data employee wise, they only can setup the
Basic elements and pay bonuses but cannot see the gross salaries of employees?
Define Profile Security for the Employee.
Define task Flow for the screen i.e. (People and Assignment Form Combined, Define Task Node).
What is element entry? What is the purpose of element entry?
Element entry is to define element that is Earning Element or Deduction Element to Calculate
Net salary/ Pay.
What is an Element? What are processing types of element?

Elements are nothing but components of Salary, They are

Basic, HRA, TA, DA, BONUS, House Allowance, Transport Earning, LOANs etc.
Processing Types are
Recurring- Element applies every period until the entry ended
Non-Recurring- Entry applies in one pay period only
What are termination rules of an element?
Actual Termination: For Non-Recurring element (end of pay period for employee leaves)
Final Close: Entries to stay open beyond the employees leaving, continue to pay employee
Last Standard Process: Date default to last day of pay period in which employee is terminated
How does u Define B.G?
1. Define Necessary Key Flex Fields like job, position, grade, competence, people group, cost allocation
and compile all of them.
2. Go to Global HRMS Manager >Work structures >Organization >Define
By default: Setup Business Group" available in the system. This BG info visible to all the employees, to
represent a single Unit...Hence in order to make partition on the Employee data.
What is costing?
Costs of Assignment for accounting or reporting purpose. Using Payroll we can calculate and transfer
costing details to GL and Project Management or Labor distribution.
What are costing types?
Costed, Fixed Costed, Distributed.
What is Costing sub module in Oracle HRMS?
There is no such module in HRMS. But the expenses incurred because of HR activities such as Recruitment
expenses, Learning Expenses (Training, Training facilities etc) and Time & Labor expenses (Project related
expenses) and other misc expenses.
Can we name certain DFFs (description flex filed) and their location?
Yes we can name certain DFF's and their location.
How many types of payrolls are there?
Payroll Period Types are:
Semi-Year, Quarter, Bi-Month, Calendar Month, Weekly, Bi-Weekly, Monthly
Extensively used payroll types are: 1. Weekly2. Bi-weekly3. Monthly
Different types of payroll runs?
1. Regular Payroll Run 2.Quick Pay
How many types of Fast Formulas are there in HRMS?
There is long list of fast formula types available, but their usage depends on relevant module. E.g. Oracle
Payroll is used for payroll calculation, Element Skip for skipping the element based on element type
Why are we enabling Allow Dynamic Inserts in HRMS and What is the Purpose of doing it?
To allow insertion of new combinations in the combination table. For example, if you have entered a new
value which doesnt exist in the combination table in the database, allow dynamic insert option allows to
accept that data entered by the user and store in table.

How people management is achieved using Oracle HRMS?

People management means it gives you all the features and functionality you need to track and
manipulate your data. From joining to leave the Organization to enter and track people form the day they
apply for a job to the day they leave your enterprise.
What are the modules available in Oracle HRMS?
Human Resource/Core HR, Payroll, Time & Labor, OLM, Tutor, Workflow, Advanced Benefits,
Self-Service Human Resources, iRecruitment, Incentive Compensation, Intelligence Talent Management
(Performance Management/PMS-Performance Management System).
What are domains in oracle HRMS?
Core HR, self Service HR, Payroll, OAB, PMS, OTL, IRECURIMENT, OCB, WORKFLOW
What are the reports available with Oracle HRMS?
Absences Report, Assignment Status Report, Current and Projected Progression Point Values Report,
Element Link Details Report, Employee Increment Results Report, Employee Movements Report, Employee
Summary Report, Full Personal Details Report, Full Applicant Details Report.
What are the reports available with Oracle HRMS?
Absences Report, Assignment Status Report, Current and Projected Progression Point Values Report,
Element Link Details Report, Employee Increment Results Report, Employee Movements Report, Employee
Summary Report
Absences Report

Conc. Prog.

Compensation, Benefits and Payroll

Assignment Status Report

Conc. Prog.

Duplicate Person Report

Conc. Prog.

Employee Increments Result

Conc. Prog

Employee Summary Report

Conc. Prog.

Workforce Sourcing and Deployment

Entity Element Summary Report

Conc. Prog.

Enterprise and Workforce Management

Workforce Sourcing and Deployment

Workforce Sourcing and Deployment
Workforce Sourcing and Deployment

Full Applicant Details Report

Conc. Prog. Workforce Sourcing and Deployment

Full Assignment Details Report

Conc. Prog.

Full Person Details Report

Conc. Prog.

Workforce Sourcing and Deployment

Full Work Details Report

Conc. Prog.

Workforce Sourcing and Deployment

Head Count Detail Report

Conc. Prog.

Workforce Sourcing and Deployment

Head Count Summary Report

Conc. Prog. Workforce Sourcing and Deployment

Organization Hierarchy Report

Conc. Prog.

Person Full History Report

Conc. Prog.

Position Hierarchy Report

Conc. Prog.

Requisition Summary Report

Conc. Prog.

Terminations Report

Conc. Prog.

Workforce Count Report

Conc. Prog.

Worker Summary Report

Conc. Prog

Workforce Sourcing and Deployment

Enterprise and Workforce Management

Workforce Sourcing and Deployment
Enterprise and Workforce Management
Workforce Sourcing and Deployment
Workforce Sourcing and Deployment
Workforce Sourcing and Deployment
Workforce Sourcing and Deployment

Assignments Unavailable for Processing Conc. Prog.

Cost Breakdown Report for Costing Run

PDF

Payroll Process Management

Payroll Process Management

Element Result Listing

PDF

Payroll Process Management

Employee Assignments Not Processed (Global)

Conc. Prog.

Payroll Process Management

Deduction Report

Conc. Prog

Payroll Process Management

Employee Payroll Movements Report

Location Change Report

Conc. Prog.
Conc. Prog

Payroll Process Management

Payroll Process Management

What are the reporting tools available with Oracle HRMS?

Oracle Reports (D2K), XML Reports, Discoverer Reports
How is employment information maintained in Oracle HRMS?
At table level, employee records are stored with effective start date and end date. Whenever you change
any record in the Employee record in UPDATE mode, a new row is created at back-end. Hence history gets
stored in system.
At front end you have option to select effective date to get effective record on that date.
Enter and Maintain contains most of the required information related to employee. If you have some more
information to cover, you can use Extra Information or Special Information to store details.
What are the steps involved in implementation of Oracle HRMS?
Following are the steps to implement Oracle HRMS
Define Key Flex fields
Define Descriptive Flex fields
Define Business Group
Set required Profile Options
Define Location
Define Organization
Define Grades
Define Jobs
Define Positions
Set required Lookup values
Set person type and Assignments type as per requirement
Associate Special Information with your Responsibility
Register Extra Information and associate with your Responsibility.
What are the system administration tasks in Oracle HRMS?
Following are the tasks for system administrator: Set Profile Options, Create Menu and Request Group for
Custom Responsibilities, Create Responsibilities, Create Users and Attached Responsibilities with User.
Oracle Payroll Retro Pay?
Retro Pay is a payment made for an event of past. Retro Pay stands for some old Payment due for the
employee. This is used for Back Dated Salary Increments.
There are four ways. 1. Retro Pay by Run
2. RetroPay by Aggregate
3. RetroPay by Element
4. Enhanced Retro Pay

What are the advantages of Oracle HRMS over peoplesoft HRMS?

Oracle HRMS is more secured than People Soft HRMS.
What are the vital features of Oracle HRMS?
Vital features are: People, Assignment, Work Structure, Compensation and Benefits
How do you declare bonus of an employee in Oracle HRMS Payroll?
Define one element (earnings) and use it to pay Bonus. Declaration is based on the functional inputs,
suppose company wants to pay Bonus along with January Salary in Every Year, you can write the formulas
accordingly.
What are the tools used with Oracle HRMS?
Oracle Reports, Discoverer, Standard seeded reports, View/List option of the menu - output could be
exported in word/excel, Web ADI etc.
What is advanced benefits module in Oracle HRMS?
Oracle Advanced Benefits (OAB) takes care of the management of Benefits Administration part. It has very
advanced features like Life Event Triggering / Processing, FSA administration, Reimbursement processing,
Communications relating to Benefits etc.
What are the key tables used in HRMS?
PER_ALL_PEOPLE_F,
PER_ALL_ASSIGNMENTS_F,
PER_ADDRESSES,
PER_JOBS, PER_GRADES,
HR_ALL_POSITIONS,
HR_ALL_LOCATIONS,
PER_PERIOD_OF_SERVICES,
PER_PERIOD_OF_PLACEMENTS,
PAY_PAYROLLS_F,
PAY_PAYROLL_ACTIONS,
PER_POSITION_DEFINITAION
How is new reports created in Oracle HRMS?
Discoverer, BI Reports, Copy existing report and register with different name.
What are the advantages achieved by an organization by using Oracle HRMS?
WS and Compensation benefits with Assignments being the basis. This model is both flexible and
adaptable. It is flexible, With Oracle HRMS you can define your own human resource model to reflect your
own enterprise structures and policies. This information model lets you record the personal, work, and pay
information for all the people you want to hold and process
Delete: Is used to delete the data from table
Purge: Is used to delete the data from recycle bin
How to transfer an employee BG to BG with same employee number?
You can set your employee numbering as Global employee numbering at BG level to achieve this.

HOW MANY TYPES OF SOFT CODED KEY FLEXFIELD?

There is only one Soft Coded Key Flex field. You have one structures associated to this key flex field for
each country
What is difference between configuration, customization and interface?
Configuration means - configure the application according to client requirement.
Customization means alter / change /create forms, reports according to organization requirements.
Interface means connect your apps with other 3rd part application/ Transfer data from flat file to Apps
OR
Customization means: changing the source code of forms.
Interfacing: is used for importing/exporting data from any third party softwares
Configuration means: enabling the setup for business requirement.
We heard the term: RICE (Reports, Interface, Customization and Extensions). The latest addition to this
FRICE with Forms added to the list.
What are flex fields in Asset?
Category Flex field
Location Flexi field
Asset key Flex field
What is the difference between rehire and reverse-termination?
Hiring an ex-employee again after interviewing him for a certain position. So the person will have a new
service record but the personal details might remain the same.
If the employee is terminated as per the process or by mistake and then there is a requirement to call
back the employee immediately after termination, is known as reverse termination. That means
reverse the process and retain the employee. While processing employment details continues with the
same assignments and the same service period
What is a security profile?
Security profile provides more security within BG. It helps in determining what users have access to what
data. The levels where you can have security profile are: Organization Position Payroll Supervisor
User specific: you can restrict / give permission to any user you can also have Custom security
Is Address form is date tracked?
No, i dont think its data tracked.
Can we delete an employee forever? How?
Use Delete personal record form from front end. But employee should not be an application user (end
date the username before delete) and should not be having payroll run data.
Can you call pl/sql package functions from within a Fast Formula?
Yes you can
How can we do this?
There is a Define Function screen in HR. In this screen you will register the PL/SQL as External Function.
How do you debug a Fast Formula? You can create a message variable in Fast Formula. This message
variable must also be registered as a Formula Result (In Formula Result Rule window).

What are the various levels where you can set up Payroll Costing Accounts?
Element Entry => Highest, Assignment => Second Highest, Organ ization => Third Highest,
Link => Fourth Highest,

Element

Payroll => Fifth Highest

Technically speaking, how do you know from tables that an Employee has been terminated?
(a) The Person_Type_ID in PER_PERSON_TYPE_USAGES_F will correspond to System Person Type
EX_EMP
(b) A record gets created in table PER_PERIODS_OF_SERVICE with Actual_Termination_date being not
null
How can you make Employee Number generation Automated based on business rule etc?
Use Fast Formula
What is the difference between PER_PEOPLE_F and PER_ALL_PEOPLE_F?
PER_PEOPLE_F is a secured view on top of PER_ALL_PEOPLE_F. The secure view uses an API hr_security.
SHOW_PERSON. This API internally checks for an entry in table PER_PERSON_LIST for the logged in
person's security profile. A concurrent program named "Security List Maintenance program" will insert
records in PER_PERSON_LIST

What is the use of approval work flow?

Oracle Service Contract leverages Oracle workflow to automate the contract approval process. After
authoring the contract one can send it for approval and obtain signature on contract.
What is the importance of below three profile options?
1. HR Business group
2. HR User type
3. HR Security
Based on these profile options all operating units linked to the same business group.
HR Business Group: profile option is used to assign the business group to the responsibility
HR User type: to define which kind of user is using the responsibility (HR, payroll or HR with Payroll)
HR Security: it give access to specific operating units. By default application creates a security profile with
same name as business group with all the privileges to all operating units. However, we can define our
own security profile.
OR
We can define business group for particular responsibility in hr business group.
We can define (HR user or HR with payroll) in hr user profile
we can define an operating unit in Hr security profile.
Profile: Hr%sec% ex. TATA MOTORS
and also we can define in Default operating unit in HR
security profile.
Profile: HR%DEF% ex. TATA cars
OR

HR: Security Profile

HR: User Type as Only HR/HR with Payroll
HR: Cross Business Group as yes/no, if yes. Then user can access data from other Business group too.
MO: Operating Unit, if Multi Org is set up for a BG then this is mandatory to setup ow optional.
What is GRE/legal entity or GRE organization and its purpose and difference between it and
other organization types?
IN SHORT:
GRE/Legal Entity: Use this classification to represent the following organizations:
Ultimate Legal Entity: this represents the enterprise, and typically, the enterprise is the highest (global)
level of a business organization.
Legal Entity: this represents the designated legal employer for all employment-related activities. The
legal authorities in a country recognize this organization as a separate employer. In an organization
hierarchy, a legal entity may report to an operating company or to the ultimate legal entity.
Consolidated Legal Entity: this organization acts on behalf of multiple operating companies that are not
legally registered, or simply on behalf of the enterprise in a country.
How can we do Final settlement in Oracle Payroll?
First you should manage all the formula process to calculate until terminated employee date
Create another type of payroll type Run- Final settlement.
Run the payroll.
For terminating an employee some elements needs to be attached The elements are as follows:
Retirement Compensation Information
Voluntary Retirement Information
Commuted Pension Information
Leave Encashment Information
Other Termination Information
Provident Fund Settlement Information
2).Link all these elements to your Payroll.
3).Attach all the above elements in your entries
4).Run quick pay for that particular employee.
OR
1. For terminating an employee some elements needs to be attached to payroll of that employee.
The elements like allowances, gratuity etc is to be attached with their pay value.
2. Go to end employment of that particular employee master and put an end date to it.
3. Then run the quick pay for that person.
What is difference between MD 50 and MD 70?
MD050 is the Functional Design Document and
MD070 is the Technical Design Document.
OR

For any component like Report, Interface etc we have to first get the requirements as to what is the
source , destinations, what data should be moved and what functional validations would be required etc.
All this would go into the MD050. Generally written by non-technical people like Business Analysts or
Functional Consultants.
MD070 is the technical document that is written to fulfill the functional requirement specified in MD050. It
includes the approaches you take, pseudo code, Validations, Data Sources, SQL Statements etc.
OR
MD 50 : this is functional design document
MD 70 : this is technical design document
Functional consultant will prepare the MD 50 document then
Technical consultant prepare MD 70 then technical consultant start his work according to document.
What differ between Extra information type and Special information type?
EIT -Descriptive DFF
SIT -Key flex field
Both store in different Tables.
EIT may be design in one record entry
SIT may be design as Effective Start Date and End Date
OR
EIT: Extra Information which stores additional information
SIT: Whereas Special Info Identifies the entities.
OR
EIT and SIT Both are provided by Oracle to Capture Extra Information.
Basic differences would be EIT is similar like a DFF and also defined using DFF Definition Screen.
SIT is KFF and defined using Personal Analysis KFF Definition screen.
SIT generally used at Person Level, EIT can be defined at Person, assignment, contact, element, location
and Job Level.
There are 2 columns date_to and date_from in SIT while no such columns are there in EIT.
HOW CAN U DO UAT IN ORCALE HRMS? WHAT ARE THE STEPS FOR THAT? WHAT ARE THE
ESSENTIAL THING NEEDED FOR UAT?
User Acceptance Testing is usually done by Functional consultants before the project goes for release.
In UAT to test if the configuration is done according to the requirements given. Moreover, regression
testing to some extent is also required apart from the core testing. If there is some discrepancies then
immediately need to open a ticket to the Development team who did the configuration. Once that is
resolved, the UAT can be checked as done as posted for peer sign off. Once peer sign off is done, it can be
approved.
What are multiple organizations?
An organization which contains different operation units but are put under one business group.

OR
Multi org is server side enhancement (application and database) which enable u to create multiple
business units in an single enterprise.
How to increase the salary of an employee?
In salary window correct the salary and end date the old salary and then add new salary and the date.
OR
Basic salary is changed from Salary Administration screen and other components are changed from the
Entry Values Screen.
OR
You can increase the salary of an employee from assignment screen you will find salary button.
Change the effective date and change the salary.
OR
Go to People > Assignment screen > Salary screen
and create new salary
What is work structure?
Work structure is a Business entity concept where first will define a Business group than follows the
Business unit, departments, for Gre/legal entity. And also for reporting purpose.
OR
Work Structures provide the framework in which you place people they include:
- Enterprise and employer structures such as business groups, organizations and legal entities
- Work roles for employees such as Jobs and Positions
- Grade structures with related pay rates
- Payroll Groups with processing calendars.
How many types of extra information are there?
The Major Extra Information (EIT) Types in HRMS:
1. Location
2. Job
3. Position
4. People
5. Assignment
6. Element
7. Contact
What is business requirement gathering?
Business requirement gathering is where we collect the information related to the organization. In hrms it
is termed as CBB current business baseline document. This documentation is done in RD020
OR
When we talk about Oracle Applications, Oracle insists clients to fallow AIM methodology in their
implantations.

OR
GAP and FIT analysis using which the functional person will come up with a solution to the clients
requirement.
OR
To know the requirement of the client one should prepare BR100 i.e requirement gathering.
OR
Based on which type of customization will be decided and MD50 will be documented and submits for
review.
What is the flow in HRMS?
We can define below given flow for HRMS Candidate -> People -> Assignment -> Payroll
OR
Flow is the sequence in which window opens one after the other.
OR
Oracle HRMS maintains four type of information flow
1. Applicants data
2. People (Employees)
3. Assignment Data (Employees Work Related Information)
4. Payroll Data.
What is an implementation? What is the exact role of an Oracle HR Functional Consultant in
implementing Oracle HR?
The complete set of Oracle Applications implementation services include:
Project Planning and Management > Business Requirements Analysis > Business Process Improvement >
Application Setup and Configuration > Data Conversion > Customizations > Module Implementation >
Database Administration > Trainings
OR
Implementation is the process where a functional guy needs to understand the requirement of the client
business needs and map the same with the oracle HRMS. Functional person will be responsible for defining
the rules and regulation in the system. He will develop the system in such a way that clients business
needs meets.
OR
Implementation is carrying out execution. Develop test and execute. An HRMS consultant does carry out
planning, requirement gathering, finding out the gap between the ERP application and the client
requirement. Analyze the requirement and givig solutions followed by setup documentation.
Why do we need Oracle Payroll?
We need Payroll software primarily to calculate net salary for the employees, and also for regulatory &
reporting reasons. Oracle Payroll helps an Organization to manage the costing of their Employees
Payroll
Payroll means processing a salary for salaried employee. There should be relation of contract of service
Payroll means an abstract of monthly salary details of an employee which is generated by computer

Can we capture just one value against each Element?

Wrong, you can capture upto 15 values [via Element Entry] per Oracle Payroll Element.
Why does PAY_PAYROLL_ACTIONS contain PAYROLL_ID, ELEMENT_SET_ID and
ASSIGNMENT_SET_ID?
The Payroll process [conc short name PYUGEN] can be run for a specific Payroll i.e. for people enrolled to
Monthly or Weekly payroll.
Hence Payroll_id is stored to capture parameter details.
A payroll action can also be restricted to a specific group of Elements, via ELEMENT_SET_ID.
A group of Elements are defined using a table PAY_ELEMENT_SETS, for example you wish to group all
bonus related elements together.
Which Assignment Records were included in Payroll Actions:PAY_ASSIGNMENT_ACTIONS
Pay_assignment_actions contains an entry for each Assignment_id that was eligible during Payroll Action.
For example if you run a quick pay, an entry for that specific assignment_id will be created in
pay_assignment_actions.
What are the possible actions?
Costing
Quick pay
Payroll Run
Magnetic Transfer [synonym to EOY-End of Year run]
Transfer to GL......etc
A column named ACTION_TYPE [validated by lookup type ACTION_TYPE] is used to store the type of
action.
What is the difference between quick-pay and payroll run?
Quickpay is functionality (available from assignment screen), by which you can run the payroll for single
person assignment. It uses the same executable as that of actual Payroll run.
When the payroll engine runs, does Oracle calculate the first calculates the Deductions and
then Earnings?
You can assign Priority to Element Classifications. If priority of Earning is 1 and Priority of Deduction
classification is 2, then Earnings will be calculated first, and then deductions will be applied latter by the
Payroll engine
What is payroll run results?
When payroll process runs, it reads the element entries for the assignment in pay_assignment_actions.
For those element entries, payroll engine uses the entry value in "pay value" or it kicks off a fast formula if
the element has a fast formula attached to that. The end result is that each eligible element gets a result.
These results are stored in pay run result tables
What are the payroll run results tables?
Pay_run_results
Pay_run_result_values
Obviously the values are stored per element in Pay_run_results.
The input value used/derived by payroll engine is stored in Pay_run_result_values

Oracle Payroll Costing Concept?

The Costing Allocation Key Flex field, during the business group definition it is being created and map with
Cost Allocation KFF with following segments normally.
Company Cost Centre Natural Account/Accounts Code
During the configuration of Cost Allocation KFF the most important concept is to set the Flex Field
Qualifiers at each segment level, we have the five levels available for each segment i.e.
Assignment > Balancing > Element Entry > Element Link > Organization > Payroll
For the Company segment following setting can be applied
Payroll Checked
Balancing Checked
This setting will explain that the Company Account will be input at Payroll level (debit information) and
balancing information will goes into credit information and on every segment level it is mandatory to
define Balancing.
For the Cost Centre segment, I can set the following setting
Payroll Checked
Organization checked
Balancing checked
This setting will explain that the Cost Centre Account information will be input at Payroll and Organization
level (debit information) and balancing information will goes into credit information and on every segment
level it is mandatory to define Balancing.
For the Natural Account segment, I can choose the following setting
Element Link Checked
Assignment Checked
Element Entry Checked
Balancing Checked
This setting will explain that the Natural Account information will be input at following levels
Element Link, Assignment, Element Entry level information will directly hit the debit account and balancing
information will goes into credit Account and on every segment level it is mandatory to define.
Balancing:
After this step we map Cost Allocation KFF Segments with GL Flex field Segments
In Oracle payroll, Costing information can be input at five levels
Payroll
Organization
Element Link
Assignment
Element Entry
Now based on the above configuration, the following codes will be define at Payroll level.
Company 01
Cost Centre 000

For example if Business Group has four Departments i.e. FINANCE, HR, IT, Operations then on every
organization the following information will be define at the Organization level
FINANCE: Cost Centre 001
HR: Cost Centre 002
IT: Cost Centre 003
Operations: Cost Centre 004
Note: Here the Cost Centre information will override with information available on Payroll Level.
Payroll Level 000
FINANCE Org Level 001

Creating SIT?
Login in as System Administrator -> Flexfield -> Key -> Segments
Search for Application (Human Resources) and Flexfield Title (Personal Analysis Flexfield)
Define a new row, we can call it MEDICAL_REIMBURSEMENT_KFF and the description can be Job Requests.
Next we click on "Segments" to define the form fields to be used in the application.

Field Value Set(segments of given SIT)

Employee Name LOV
Nature of Sickness LOV
Details of Sickness 30Char
Hospital Name 30Char
Date FND_STANDARD_DATE
Amount Allowed CRL_YES_NO
Amount Number
Multiple Payroll and Currencies Setup?
Multiple Payroll and Currencies Setup
This type of implementation is the challenging implementation and you create multiple payroll based on
the currencies involved for example if you are paying your employees in USD,EURO,GBP KWD,BHD etc.
then the best option is to create multiple payrolls based on each currency type e.g.
XX Payroll KWD

XX Payroll BHD
XX Payroll USD
For this you need to create multiple elements and their links based on each currency type e.g.
Basic Salary USD,

Basic Salary KWD,

Basic Salary BHD

House Allowance USD,

House Allowance KWD,

House Allowance BHD

Table Suffixes of EBS?

_ALL: Table holds all the information about different operating units. Multi-Org environment. You can also
set the client info to specific operating unit to see the data specific to that operating unit only.
_TL: are tables corresponding to another table with the same name minus the _TL. These tables provide
multiple language support. For each item in the table without _TL there can be many rows in the _TL
table, but all with different values in the LANGUAGE column.
_B: these are the BASE tables.
They are very important and the data is stored in the table with all validations.
If anything happens to the BASE table data, then it is a data corruption issue.
_F: these are date tracked tables, which occur in HR and Payroll. there are two date columns
EFFECTIVE_START_DATE and EFFECTIVE_END_DATE which together with the PK identifies a row uniquely.
_V: tables are the views created on base tables
_VL: views for multi language tables which combines the row of the base table with the corresponding row
of the _TL table where the LANGUAGE = USERENV (LANG).
_S: are sequences, used for finding new values for the primary key of a table.
_A: are Audit Shadow Tables
_AVN and _ACN: are Audit Shadow Views (when data was changed, and with what values
What is the difference between a Job and a Position?
Job is general one, whereas Position is specific term to its roles and responsibilities.
JOB: MANAGER (generic term), SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
POSITION: Finance Manager, HR Manager, Junior SOFTWARE ENGINEER, (this is position which
is specific to the role to be played).
Can a job have multiple positions?
Job is generic. Yes a job can have multiple positions.
Important Tables in HRMS?
PER_ALL_PEOPLE_F,
PER_PERSON_TYPES,
PER_PERSON_TYPE_USAGES,
PER_ADDRESSES,
PER_ALL_ASSIGNMENTS_F,
PER_JOBS,
PER_JOB_DEFINITIONS,
PER_GRADES,

PER_GRADE_DEFINITIONS,
HR_ALL_POSITIONS,
HR_ALL_POSITION_DEFINITIONS,
HR_ALL_LOCATIONS,
PAY_ALL_PAYROLLS_F,
PAY_ELEMENT_ENTRIES_F, PAY_ELEMENTS_LINKS_F,
What is the difference between SECURED VIEWS and NON SECURED VIEWS?
1. Secured views display information only for the current period.
2. Unsecured views is used to get the information from the entire rows
APIs: Application Programmatic Interface?
API is nothing but a logical grouping of PL/SQL packaged procedures and functions, which acts as an
interface to the database.
APIs are in Oracle HRMS. For every insert/update or delete to any of the base tables, an API is available.
APIs are primarily used to validate the data being inserted into the base tables and also for inserting or
updating the data on deleting the data from the base tables.
Define APIs and use in Oracle HRMS?
APIs are used in HR to insert the data into the Base tables. The user does not have the facility to copy the
data directly into the Base tables. When we write the inbound interfaces / use WebAdI, the systems will
use the APIs to store the data into system. The different types of parameters are IN / INOUT / OUT of
these parameters few are mandatory, without which the process wont complete. Generally when we use
API we give data FOR: Object Version Number, Effective Date, P_Validate
HR_EMPLOYEE_API EXAMPLE: HR_EMPLOYEE_API.CREATE_EMPLOYEE
HR_ORGANIZATION_API EXAMPLE: HR_ORGANIZATION_API.CREATE_ORGANIZATION
HR_ASSIGNMENT_API
Parameters
Every API has a number of parameters. Generally, the optional parameters are followed by a default value,
e.g. p_email_address in varchar2 default null.
Control Parameters
Control parameters are the mandatory parameters common for all the APIs.
P_Object_Version_Number
This is one of the control parameters. For insert APIs, p_object_version_number is an OUT parameter. For
update APIs, p_object_version_number is an IN OUT parameter.
p_validate
This is an IN parameter. It decides that the record needs to be saved to the database or not Default value
for p_validate is FALSE. If TRUE value is passed, data will be validated and not saved to the database.
Note: Commit needs to be written in the code explicitly in order to save the changes done by
APIs to the database.
P_Effective_Date

APIs that are used to insert/update/delete the date tracked data have this control parameter. This is a
mandatory IN parameter that defines the date from which the current change needs to be applied.
p_datetrack_update_mode
APIs used to update the date tracked data have this control parameter. Valid values for this parameter
are: UPDATE, CORRECTION, UPDATE_OVERRIDE and UPDATE_CHANGE_INSERT
p_datetrack_delete_mode
APIs used to delete date track data have this control parameter. Valid values for this parameter are: ZAP,
DELETE, FUTURE_CHANGE, and DELETE_NEXT_CHANGE
List of Important APIs?
Work Structures
HR_ORGANIZATION_API
HR_JOB_API
HR_POSITION_API
HR_GRADE_API
HR_VALID_GRADES_API
HR_LOCATION_API

People
HR_EMPLOYEE_API
HR_PERSON_API
HR_ASSIGNMENT_API
HR_PERSON_ADDRESS_API
HR_PHONE_API
HR_UPLOAD_PROPOSAL_API
HR_APPLICANT_API
HR_CONTACT_API
HR_CONTACT_REL_API
HR_PERIODS_OF_SERVICE_API

Payroll
PAY_ACTION_INFORMATION_API
PAY_BATCH_ELEMENT_ENTRY_API
PAY_COST_ALLOCATION_API
PAY_ELEMENT_ENTRY_API
PAY_ELEMENT_LINK_API
PAY_ELEMENT_TYPES_API
PAY_INPUT_VALUES_API

If you do personalization at both FUNCTION level and Responsibility level, which

personalization has higher precedence?
Responsibility level. Responsibility level will override FUNCTION level personalizations
Say you have done a lot of Personalizations to Self Service Screens. But all these
Personalizations were done in DEVELOPMENT environment. How will you migrate these
personalizations to PRODUCTION environment?
Before 11.5.7Use AKLOAD
This is a java program given by Oracle. This is the only way you can script it.
In DEV you will do AKLOAD DOWNLOAD ( & other parameters)
In PRD you will do AKLOAD UPLOAD ( & other parameters)
On or after 11.5.10 Use responsibility Functional Administrator, and then click on Personalization
Tab, and then click on Import/Export.
Next select the documents to be exported.
Go to the UNIX box and tar the personalizations into a .tar file.
On the Production environment unzip this tar file in location as entered in profile FND: Personalization
Document Root Path.
Setting up of this profile is mandatory or else Oracle Framework wouldnt know where to search for the
files to be imported.
How to restrict iRecruitment external visitors to access only responsibilities on the external
server?

Set the Server Trust Level for the server to External, Set the Trust Level of the iRecruitment external
responsibilities to External too.
Is SSHR a dependency for iRecruitment?
IRecruitment has no dependence on SSHR
Does iRecruitment support Candidate Qualifying Questionnaires where the candidate must
answer vacancy-specific questions correctly prior to submitting an application?
iRecruitment currently does not support this function, For now this can be achieved by having a set of
simple questions using flexfield to get those responses and a user hook to validate them as part of the
apply process.
Do we track vacancy history?
IRecruitment does not track changes to the vacancy. If changes to a field are to be traced use the Audit
capability in APPs.
Following is the execution order of the test plan elements:
Configuration elements
Pre-Processors
Timers
Sampler
Post-Processors (unless SampleResult is null)
Assertions (unless SampleResult is null)
Listeners (unless SampleResult is null)
Configuration Elements allow you to create defaults and variables to be used by Samplers. They are used
to add or modify requests made by Samplers.
They are executed at the start of the scope of which they are part, before any Samplers that are located
in the same scope. Therefore, a Configuration Element is accessed only from inside the branch where it
is placed.
There are two kinds of functions:
User-defined static values(or variables): It allow the user to define variables to be replaced with their
static value when a test tree is compiled and submitted to be run.
Built-in functions:
eg.
threadNum :get thread number
samplerName :get the sampler name (label)
machineIP :get the local machine IP address
machineName :get the local machine name
time :return current time in various formats
log :log (or display) a message (and return the value)
logn :log (or display) a message (empty return value)
StringFromFile :read a line from a file
FileToString :read an entire file

CSVRead :read from CSV delimited file

XPath :Use an XPath expression to read from a file
counter :generate an incrementing number
intSum :add int numbers
longSum :add long numbers
Random :generate a random number
RandomString :generate a random string
UUID :generate a random type 4 UUID
TestPlanName :Return name of current test plan
Listeners:
Listeners helps us to view the result of samplers in the form of graphs, trees, tables or simple text in
some log files. As a Sampler component of JMeter is executed they provide visual access to the data
gathered by JMeter about the test cases
Jmeter:
JMeter functions are special values that can populate fields of any Sampler or other element in a test
tree. A function call looks like this:
${__functionName(var1,var2,var3)}
Variables are referenced as:
${VARIABLE}
Java application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance. It was originally
designed for testing Web Applications but has since expanded to other test functions.
Apache JMeter may be used to test performance both on static and dynamic resources (files, Servlets,
Perl scripts, Java Objects, Data Bases and Queries, FTP Servers and more). It can be used to simulate a
heavy load on a server, network or object to test its strength or to analyze overall performance under
different load types. You can use it to make a graphical analysis of performance or to test your
server/script/object behavior under heavy concurrent load.
Payroll Documents:
i. Time sheets
ii. Job sheets
iii. Time recorders
iv. Payroll registers
v. Pay-in-slip (pay slip)
these are the evidence documents should be maintained by the business units, out of these pay slip is
issued to the employees stating his work details and deductions made (including employer's deductions).
By default a JMeter thread will send requests without pausing between each sampler. Timers helps us to
define a period to wait between each request. Example of Timers are Constant Timer, Gaussian Random
Timer, Synchronizing Timer, Uniform Random Timer, Constant Throughput Timer.
Important Tables in HRMS?
PER_ASSIGNMENTS, PER_PAY_BASIS, PER_PAY_PROPOSALS, PER_ALL_PEOPLE_F,

PER_PERSON_TYPES, PER_PERSON_TYPE_USAGES, PER_ADDRESSES,

PER_CONTACT_RELATIONSHIPS, PER_PERIODS_OF_SERVICE, PER_ALL_ASSIGNMENTS_F,
PER_PAY_GROUPS, PER_JOBS, PER_JOB_DEFINITIONS, PER_GRADES, PER_GRADE_DEFINITIONS,
HR_ORGANIZATIONS, HR_ORGANIZATION_UNITS, HR_POSITIONS, HR_ALL_POSITIONS,
HR_ALL_POSITION_DEFINITIONS, HR_ALL_LOCATIONS, PAY_ALL_PAYROLLS_F,
PAY_ELEMENT_ENTRY_VALUES_F, PAY_ELEMENT_ENTRIES_F, PAY_ELEMENTS_LINKS_F,
PAY_ELEMENT_TYPES_F
Concurrent program status and Phases
PHASE:
COMPLETED, PENDING, RUNNING, INACTIVE
STATUS:
NORMAL, ERROR, WARNING, CANCELLED, ON
TERMINATING, STANDBY, SCHEDULED, RESUMING,

HOLD,

NO

MANAGER,

WAITINg,

PAUSED,

Life cycle of a concurrent request?

A concurrent request proceeds through three, possibly four, life cycle stages or phases:
Variable

Description

Pending

Request is waiting to be run

Running

Request is running

Completed Request has finished

Inactive

Request cannot be run

Phase

Status

Description

PENDING

Normal

Request is waiting for the next available manager.

PENDING

Standby

Program to run request is incompatible with other program(s) currently

running.

PENDING

Scheduled

Request is scheduled to start at a future time or date.

PENDING

Waiting

A child request is waiting for its Parent request to mark it ready to run. For
example, a report in a report set that runs sequentially must wait for a prior
report to complete.

RUNNING

Normal

Request is running normally.

RUNNING

Paused

Parent request pauses for all its child requests to complete. For example, a
report set pauses for all reports in the set to complete.

RUNNING

Resuming

All requests submitted by the same parent request have completed running.

The Parent request is waiting to be restarted.

RUNNING

Terminating Running request is terminated, by selecting Terminate in the Status field of the
Request Details zone.

COMPLETED Normal

Request completes normally.

COMPLETED Error

Request failed to complete successfully.

COMPLETED Warning

Request completes with warnings. For example, a report is generated

successfully but fails to print.

COMPLETED Cancelled

Pending or Inactive request is cancelled, by selecting Cancel in the Status field

of the Request Details zone.

COMPLETED Terminated

Running request is terminated, by selecting Terminate in the Status field of the

Request Details zone.

INACTIVE

Disabled

Program to run request is not enabled. Contact your system administrator.

INACTIVE

On Hold

Pending request is placed on hold, by selecting Hold in the Status field of the
Request Details zone.

INACTIVE

No Manager No manager is defined to run the request. Check with your system
administrator.

Submitting Requests?
Administrators can assign individual programs/sets, all programs/sets in a request group, programs/sets
belonging to one or more applications, and so on, either to the user directly or to a role that can
then be assigned to one or more users.
If applications are included in the request groups, all programs/requests sets that are created in these
applications will also be automatically included. Please note that request submission applies to both
programs and request sets.
The following types of "instance sets" can be used for assignment (but administrators can create new
instance sets based on their needs):

All programs in a particular request security group

All request sets in a particular request security group

To enable this functionality, the following are seeded:

Permission "Submit Request"

Permission "View Request"

Permission Set "Request Operations" containing the permissions "Submit Request" and "View
Request"

Object "Concurrent Programs"

Object Instance Set "Programs that can be accessed"

Object Instance Set "Request sets that can be accessed"

To grant access to a request security group to a role, follow these steps:

1. Define your role (User Management responsibility).
2. Define your request security group (System Administrator responsibility).
3. Define your grant (Functional Administrator responsibility).
Viewing Requests?
You can control users' access to viewing requests with RBAC.
Note: In previous releases, the Concurrent: Report Access Level profile was used to control privileges to
report output files and log files generated by a concurrent program. This profile is no longer used.
Seeded "instance sets" allow administrators to grant:All requests submitted by a user

All requests submitted by a user for a given application

All requests belonging to a program submitted by a user
All requests belonging to a request set submitted by a user