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A) How to Make
EIT Read-Only
for a
Core HR
Responsibility
B) How to
Enable EIT in
Self Service
and in Core
Extra Information Types (EITs) are a type of descriptive flex-field that help us to configure and store the extra
HR information.Unlike the descriptive flexfield, EITs are child entities with separate tables to hold the information.It
10) How to Add means one can store multiple instances of an EIT for each main record.
Third Party Web
Here we will discuss about how to create an EIT and enable in Self-Service.
Page Link to Oracle
Application Web
Page Basic Requirement
11) How to Create
Global User Defined
Table(UDT)
Our basic requirement is to create an EIT (person) with the following editable field.
12) How to Add
Element Value in 1. Full Name --- Mandatory Free text field
Oracle Online
2. Effective Date ---Mandatory Date field
Payslip
3. Amount --- Mandatory Numeric field
13) How to
Enable/Disable 4. Closed(Y/N) --- Mandatory Field with Y/N LOV
Concurrent Program
Parameter • The EIT will be viewable from US Super HRMS Manager and Employee-Self Service responsibility.
Dynamically • In self-service a dedicated link should be provided to see/update/add data to this EIT.
2) XML Publisher

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3) Workflow Tutorial • Other EIT must not be visible from this new link available under Employee-Self Service Menu.
4) Form • Employee will able to Add/Update the entery and on submission this will go for approval.
Personalization -
How to Change Field • HR can enter information directly via Super HRMS Manager.
Name • User should able to enter more than one entry.
5) iRecruitment
Data Migration - The Self-service page and Core HR page look-n-feel is shown below.
How To Migrate
Resume Self-Service Page
6) How to Restrict
Agency from
entering Duplicate
Candidate
7)How to Change
User Password
8) How To
Customise Vacancy
Search in
iRecruitment-
Adding Subsidiary
Logo
9)Problem With
XML Parsing
Sitemap

Core HR Screen

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Solution Approach

Our Solution can be divided into three different parts

1) Creation and Registration of EIT
2) Workflow customization, Link Creation under self service responsibility and Personalization

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3) AME Rule Setup for Approval Cycle.

Here we will discuss about point 1 & 2.Point3 will be discussed in a separate article.

1) Creation and Registration of EIT

A) Navigation:- Application Developer >> Flexfield >>Decriptive >> Segments
i) Since we are creating a people EIT, so query for "Extra Person Information" and unfreeze the flexfield
Definition and create new Context field code
Context field Code:- XX_TEST_EIT
Name :- Test Person EIT
Description :- Test Person EIT

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ii) Now click on the Segments and define the segments as per our business need.

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Note:- For simplicity of our discussion, we kept all the field as "Free text". One can attach any valueset as
per the requirement.
To add the valueset highlight any segment and click on "Open" button.

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iii) once the segments are designed and declared, click on the save button and close the "Segment Summary"
window.
Now freeze the flexfield Definition and Compile the EIT.

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iv) Now our EIT Definition is ready, and we will register the newly defined EIT.
Navigation:- US Super HRMS Manager >> View >> Request >> Submit a New Request
Concurrent Program Name:- Register Extra Information Types (EITs)
Parameters
Table Name :- PER_PEOPLE_INFO_TYPES [Select it from the drop down available. Since it is a
people EIT hence, we have to select this value]

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Information Type :- <Name of our EIT>[identify the EIT from the LOV]
Multiple Rows :- <Value can be Yes/No>
Yes:- if we select Yes, it means we are allowing users to enter more than one record for this
EIT definition.
No:- If we select No, it means users are allowed to enter only one record for this EIT
definition.
Legislation Code*:- <Select the proper legislation for the EIT information type>.
Here we are selecting "United States".

* :- If we keep the legislation code null, then EIT will be visible from all business groups/legislation.

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v) Now once the concurrent program is completed successfully, our EIT is now registered.
There is information type security is in place for EIT. This will help us to restrict the group of users who can

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see/modify the data.

Navigation:- US Super HRMS Manager >> Security >> Information Types Security
Now query for the responsibility for which we want to make the EIT visible and attach the EIT.

2) Workflow customization, Link Creation under self service responsibility and Personalization

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A) Workflow customization
As we all know, most of the self-service process is attached with a workflow which enable us to
automate the approval process.The EIT is also follow the same architecture.
i) To identify the seeded workflow name, First we have to identify the menu for the seeded
responsibility "Employee Self-Service".
The name of the menu is "Employee Self Service"

Navigation :- Application Developer >> Application >> Menu

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ii) Navigation :- Application Developer >> Application >> Function

Now query for the identified function and go to the "Form" tab.Once we are in the Form tab open
the Parameters attribute in editor and check the workflow name.

ii) Now open workflow builder and open the HR workflow(item type:- HRSSA). Identify the process
and copy the seeded process and paste it with a custom name.

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ii) Before saving the workflow, open the newly created custom workflow process and double click
on the node "HR_EIT_JSP_FCT".
Now go to the "Node attribute" tab and select "PERSON" for the "Hr Eit Type" attribute.
Once the value is selcted, clcik on "OK" and "APPLY" and save you workflow definition in database

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B) Link Creation
Our custom workflow is now ready. Now we have to create a custom link under the seeded
responsibility "Employee Self-Service"

i) First we have to create a custom function and attached the newly created custom workflow.
[Easiest way to do that:-Copy it from the identified seeded function HR_EIT_SS and then change
it.]

Description Tab

Attribute Value
Function XX_HR_EIT_SS

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User Function Name Extra Information Types-Test

Description Extra Information Types-Test

Properties Tab

Attribute Value
Function XX_HR_EIT_SS
Type SSWA jsp function
Maintenance Mode Support None
Context Dependence Responsibility

Form Tab

Attribute Value
Function XX_HR_EIT_SS
Form
Application
Parameters pAMETranType=SSHRMS&pAMEAppId=800&pProcessName=<Internal
name of custom workflow process>&pItemType=HRSSA&
pCalledFrom=<Name of the custom function>&pPersonID=&
pFromMenu=Y

Ex:- In our case , the value will be as mentioned below

pAMETranType=SSHRMS&pAMEAppId=800&
pProcessName=XX_HR_EIT_JSP_PRC&pItemType=HRSSA&
pCalledFrom=XX_HR_EIT_SS&pPersonID=&pFromMenu=Y

Web HTML

Attribute Value

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Function XX_HR_EIT_SS
HTML Call OA.jsp?akRegionCode=HR_CREATE_PROCESS_TOP_SS&
akRegionApplicationId=800&OAFunc=<Name of the custom function>

Ex:- In our case , the value will be as mentioned below

OA.jsp?akRegionCode=HR_CREATE_PROCESS_TOP_SS&
akRegionApplicationId=800&OAFunc=XX_HR_EIT_SS

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ii) Now query for the seeded menu and attach the custom function.Save the definition.

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C) Personalization of the page

Now our link will be available under the responsibility. But it will show all the person EIT that are
configured to see under Employee Self-Service
responsibility. To show only our custom responsibility we have to personalize the page.

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i) To personalize the page enable the personalization for the user and click on the personalize
page hyperlink.
[Note:- This can be done through "Functional Administrator" responsibility by setting the
personalization Context]

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ii) Search for "Flex: Descriptive Flex..." attribute and click on the pencil icon to personalize
the page.

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iii) Put the flexfield name and segment/s which we need to display.Click on Save to save
the definition.
In our case segment list will be looks like

XX_TEST_EIT|Full Name|Effective Date|Amount|Closed(Y/N)

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Now our page is ready to be use. It will only show the single EIT and allow the user to add multiple rows.Setup
the AME rule to incorporate the approval cycle.

Note:- 1) Sometime after doing the configuration, page may throws some error or not viewable as per
configured.
So, it is always advisable to bounce the middle tier after configuration.
2) Before setting up the AME rule, please ensure that HR_APPROVAL_REQ_FLAG node attribute value

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is set to "Yes" or "Yes- Dynamic Approval" in

"HR_REVIEW_CHANGES_JSP_FCT node for the custom workflow process that we created[or
attached with the function].

If the value is set as "No", It will not go for the approval even after AME rule is in place.

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3) Some Useful information on EIT

SITs are stored in a key flexfield combination table where the combination of segments must be
unique - a
feature of all key flexfields.

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EITs are stored in a descriptive flexfield table where the combination of segment values do not need
to form a unique key.

4) Upload/Download Workflow Definition from Database

Workflow definition loaded is available with workflow builder, it means one can upload/download the
workflow deifnitions from database using workflow builder.
Oracle also provided us a concurrent program to upload/download the workflow definition.

Concurrent Program Name:- Workflow Definition Loader

Parameter
a) Mode:- Download :- Download from database to file
Force :- Force upgrade of database definition regardless of the access levels
Upgrade :- Upgrade database from file
Upload :- Upload file to database

b) File :- Full path name of the file [along with file name] from where it will be uploaded to database/
downloaded from database.

c) Item type:- Select the item type which you want to download.
Remember:- While uploading the workflow definition, don't enter the item type, if it
contains more than one item type.
If Item type is entered, then definition will not be uploaded in the database
and program will ends in error.
For Example:- HR workflow contains FNDFFWK,WFSTD item type along with HRSSA.
This is because HRSSA item type has a
dependency on those workflow.

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References:-1) https://metalink.oracle.com
2) Oracle Applications Flexfields Guide(Release 12) B31456-01

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