Question { 9409 }

What are User Exits and what are different types of User
Exits in Oracle Apps ?

Answer

A user exit is a 3GL program where it can be linked to
the report builder executable
There are 3 types of user interfaces

1> ORACLE user interfaces
2> OCI (Oracle Caller Interface)
3> None-Oracle user exit

We can integrate Oracle reports with Oracle Application
Object Library, and run them as concurrent programs from
your forms or through standard request submission.

These are the user exits available in Oracle Reports that
makes AOL integration.


SRW.USER_EXIT(’FND SRWINIT’);
Define it in Before Report Trigger
This user exit sets up information for use by flexfields,
user profiles, the concurrent manager, and other Oracle
Applications features.

SRW.USER_EXIT(’FND SRWEXIT’);
Define it in After Report Trigger
This user exit frees all the memory allocation done in other
Oracle Applications user exits.


SRW.USER_EXIT(’FND FLEXSQL......');
Call FND FLEXSQL in Before Report Trigger to get the
Flexfield values

SRW.USER_EXIT(’FND FLEXIDVAL......');
Call FND FLEXIDVAL in Format Triggers to populate Flexfield
values

SRW.USER_EXIT(’FND FORMAT_CURRENCY......');
Call this User Exit in any format trigger to format the
Amount fields