What is API? API, an abbreviation of Application Program Interface, is a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications. The API specifies how software components should interact and APIs are used when programming graphical user interface (GUI) components. What is User Hook? User Hook, is a pl/sql code used to execute from the standard API. Oracle has supplemented the core product API functionality by the addition of API user hooks. When the API processing reaches a user hook, core product processing stops and any customer specific logic for that event is executed. Then, if no errors occur, the main API processing resumes. You can use such extra logic to add functionality not supplied directly by Oracle Applications. NOTE: You should not manually edit the API source code files supplied by Oracle If you do modify these codes, Oracle Applications will be unable to support the product, and upgrades may not be possible. Oracle ...
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Introduction to HRMS Each and every enterprise needs people to manage and run its business. People are the most basic and the most important ingredient of any business. It could be an NGO, a Bank or a Robotics laboratory, no matter where the enterprise focuses on, it must need people to run it. That is why it becomes necessary for the enterprise to store organizational data along with employee data, and use them to manage the people related to the enterprise effectively. This requirement creates the market for a system called the Human Resource Management System. Oracle E-Biz provides a very effective and scalable way to manage the Human Resource of an enterprise. It is called Oracle human Resource Management System (a.k.a Oracle HRMS / Oracle HCM). Oracle HRMS as a whole is a combination of few Sub Modules. Each sub module supports one particular type of application / practice. The most popular modules in Oracle HRMS are: Oracle Human Resources: Also known as Co...
Oracle Core HR Introduction Human resource management system, as the name suggests, is a system that accounts for the human resource / the human capital / asset. This is very nice to count Employees to be an asset to the enterprise. However like all other assets of the Firm, human resource also needs renewal and maintenance. This module in Oracle E-Biz helps us manage our Human capital and lets us embed the HR related data with other modules. HRMS as a module is needed in almost all other modules in the enterprise. For an example, if we are entering any data related to procurement, we might want to record the person details who wanted it. Similarly for a Project request, we might want to record who the Project manager for the project is. For an Order to be approved, we might need the manager's name of the person who punched that particular order. So HRMS is everywhere. Progressively when we keep reading about the various functionalities, we will be able to relate the concep...