Apologies for delay in responding to your post

Budgetary funds checking is available in Oracle Projects, and it only works for subcontract / purchases i.e. it does not work for any transactions that are batch processed (costed) in Oracle projects itself i.e. processes similar to GMS: Costing and Funds Checking for Miscellaneous Transactions” in Grants do not exist in Oracle Projects. Instead OP has “PRC: Distribute costs for Miscellaneous Transactions” which does not check funds. You could try to customise processes in OP to do the funds checking using costing extensions

One thing to bear in mind with Oracle Projects, as per the subject of this blog, is that if you adopt the Oracle Project Management financial planning model funds checking does not work as standard, hence the reason for the blog really i.e. I believe there is a potential way round this.

Hope this helps

Barry

If you can provide an example of the SQL/filter/report that you’re having an issue with, we’ll be happy to help your further.

thanks

We use also BI Answers, I just did a SQL study, but I find it difficult to translate the several functions (GROUP BY, HAVING etc.) in BI Answers. When I use a filter for instance, which function do I use.

So, I am interested in the translation of SQL to BI-answer, can You help me?

Kind regards,

Christien Breukink

Project “Workbench”
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From what I could gather, the new Project List now has an additional two sections: Worklist (workflow objects) and Report Views.
Report Views put seem to be another name for Alternate Project Search and on my environment I could not get this to work and from what I hear, the Alternate Project Search works ad-hoc on many instances.

My concern would be just how well the page performs given some have previously complained of a performance issue on the Project List page. This will just add to that I fear!

Record History (Equivalent to /Row Who in Forms)
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Record History allows users to see data about a particular record, such as who created the record and when, and who most recently updated the record and when. Record history provides better auditing capabilities for OA Framework based pages
and ensures SOX compliance

For those of us used to Forms navigation, it’s the equivalent of

/ Row Who

Improved Searches
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There is now a Look Ahead LOV that is similar to a yahoo page where entering a letter will initiate the search with values being listed beneath the field. I have yet to see this in action within Projects and I believe upcoming changes within R12.1.3 will allow a user to identify which LOV field has Look Ahead enabled.

Flexfield References Support
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Currently, in Forms-based applications, users can set up Reference fields whose value is used to derive properties of segments in a flexfield. In Release 12.1.1, the same support has been extended to Oracle Application Framework-based applications.

Though technically, this was for !2.1.1 i think it still warrants to be mentioned in your blog since not many people are aware that it is now possible to reference OA FWK page fields to derive flexfield properties. Finally! Oracle has listened to one of the major obstacles of using flexfields within OA FWK pages.

Upcoming Popup window changes
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I’m particularly interested to see the new R12.1.3 Pop-up enhancements that will allow form submits. If executed right within the individual product teams, this should radically enhance the user interface for Project Mgt and finally put to rest navigation and # of clicks a user needs to make to complete a flow. With each popup submit it will also improve performance of pages since refresh rates will be less given the popup windows may only reference a cell or field within a page. I hope the ORacle Projects Development team revisits the PJT interface and enables this pop up submit capability on multiple steps within a complete flow.