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2 Corp Books

Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 10:19:55 +0530
From: "Mehra, Varun (CAP, GECSI)" Varun.Mehra@geind.GE.com
Subject: FA-2 Corp Books

Hi everyone,

The client here is on Rel 10.7SC, operating on FA, AP and GL. These modules have been live since 1995. The requirement here is regarding FA, i.e to create another Corporate Book which replicates the already existing one. The diffrerence between the existing Corporate Book and the New Corporate Book will be on the Depreciation rates only. Otherwise it will have the same categories, prorate conventions, life et al.

My request to all you FA gurus is to suggest a way whereby we can replicate the entire existing Corporate Book asset details into the new Corporate Book. If only Initial Mass Copy worked for copying details from one Corporate book to another. But is there any similar magic available/known-to-exist.

Your assistance/suggestions/experiences/ideas for the above would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks
Varun Mehra
Consultant-Oracle Applications
GE Capital, India


Asset Inquiry screen

Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 16:37:12 +0400
From: Chetan Banglorewala ChetanB@allied-medical.co.ae
Subject: FA - Asset Inquiry screen

Hi All,

We completed the Set up steps for Oracle Assets (10.7 SC 16.1)in the Acceptance (CRP) instance and tried to enter a new asset.

1. I tried to enter Asset using Detail Addition feature. But when I entered the Category Flexfield, it gave an error. FRM 40735 WHEN VALIDATE ITEM trigger raised unhandled exception NO_DATA_FOUND.

2. I recompiled the Category Flexfield and it completed successfully.

3. I tried to enter the asset again, but received the same error message as above.

4. I then entered the asset using Quick addition feature and saved the record. The system generated the asset number 100002 and reference numbers.

5. When I tried to query the asset 100002 using the Asset Workbench - Find option, I get the error. FRM 40735 POST_QUERY trigger raised unhandled exception NO_DATA_FOUND.

6. I used the Browser tool and queried the FA_ADDITIONS and also FA_ADDITIONS_V table and found that the record exists in the database.

I would like to know if anyone had similar problems. If yes, shall appreciate solution for the same.

Best regards,
Chetan Banglorewala



Revaluation process

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 14:53:26 +0300
From: Andrei.Guseletov@Kvazar-Micro.com
Subject: [FA:revaluation process]

Hi all,

When I run Revaluation Preview report I get there next error: "Revaluation calculation could not be done because this life was not defined for the depreciation method of the asset" Are there some restrictions of using Revaluation with Assets using Life-Based depreciation method?

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Regards,
Andrew Guseletov


Account Generator/Unplanned Depreciation

Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 03:20:12 PDT
From: Ananth Swaminath ananth999@hotmail.com
Subject: FA: Account Generator/Unplanned Depreciation

Hello Everybody
I have two issues in Fixed Assets:

1. Account Generator:

When I transfer journals to GL (from FA) and then view them there, I notice that all journals have a debit and credit to the SAME code combination (with the exception of Asset Additions). Account Generator is setup with its default process. And I have reveiwed the types of accounts in Book Controls and Asset CAtegories and don't seem to find any problems there in terms of the type of accounts that have been setup. I am still searching for a solution to this cryptic problem.

2. Unplanned Depreciation:

Unplanned depreciation simply doesn't work. The error that the system throws up is this:

"APP-48403: Error in Pre-insert trigger. Please contact your..."

We are on Release 11.0.2. Any help is highly appreciated. Many thanks...
Ananth
Senior Applications Consultant


Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 11:27:24 PDT
From: Thomas Kuglen tkuglen@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: FA: Account Generator/Unplanned Depreciation

For the first problem, try changing the Profile Option Account Generator: Run in Debug? from "No" to "Yes." There could be a performance impact but this should fix the problem. There is a patch to fix this bug but I can't remember it's number.


Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 12:50:06 PDT
From: Ananth Swaminath ananth999@hotmail.com
Subject: Reply: FA: Account Generator/Unplanned Depreciation

Hi Thomas
Thanks. I'll check this out tomorrow. The actual problem is that I get the the same Debit and Credit account value for the Natural Account segment alone. The others are populated correctly.

The patch you spoke of - is it for the Unplanned Depreciation problem?

Thanks once again
Ananth
Senior Applications Consultant


Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 13:51:51 PDT
From: carla pasos carlapasos@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: Reply: FA: Account Generator/Unplanned Depreciation

There is also couple of patches out there for account generator. We had a similar problem in rel.11.01 and in 11.02 and it was gone after the patches were applied. I don't remember the patches number but you may want to call Oracle support.

Hope this help.


Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 14:17:47 PDT
From: Ananth Swaminath ananth999@hotmail.com
Subject: Reply(2): FA: Account Generator/Unplanned Depreciation

Hi Carla

I have contacted Support. and the TAR is still pending. Hence the post. I'll appreciate it if you can run through your records and give me a few pointers here. We are on Rel.11.02 and maybe will be on Rel 11.03 soon.

I can't figure this out at all. The setups seem fine. All processes and reports in FA complete successfully. The problem is therefore not native to FA. Something seems to be happening on its way out of FA or into GL.

Unplanned Depreciation is ofcourse not starting up at all. Throws up the error I mentioned below.

Any ideas? Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks a lot..

Ananth
Senior Applications Consultant



FA Reports - User exits FND FLEXSQL

Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 17:13:23 +0200
From: "Krishna, Jothi (CAP, GCF)" Jothi.Krishna2@gecapital.com
Subject: FA Reports - User exits

I am working on FA reports customisation. Source Asset Retirements Report. FAS440.rdf

The CostCenter value is returned from a formula column defined like this :

function ACCT_FLEX_COST_SEGFormula return Char is

begin

SRW.REFERENCE(:accounting_flex_structure);
SRW.REFERENCE(:acct_flex_cost_seg);
SRW.USER_EXIT('FND FLEXSQL CODE="GL#"
NUM=":accounting_flex_structure"
APPL_SHORT_NAME="SQLGL"
TABLEALIAS="dhcc"
OUTPUT=":acct_flex_cost_seg"
MODE="SELECT" DISPLAY="FA_COST_CTR"');
RETURN(:acct_flex_cost_seg);

end;

My requirement is to change the cost_center to sub account level. In order to do that i need to know the User exit source. (FND FLEXSQL). Where can i find this.

Can any one help on this ASAP.

Note : Thanks in advance, Joe


Cost Detail out of Balance

Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 12:58:30 -0500
From: "Aesoph, James" James.Aesoph@conagra.com
Cc: "Lrichols@us.oracle.com"
Subject: FA Cost Detail out of Balance

Any suggestions?

Basically what happened was, we added some assets with the account generator configured a certain way. Then in the next period we made some transactions on those assets, such as adjustment, retirements, and transfers, with the account generator configured a different way. For example, an addition for $100 was made to accounting flexfield 100-110, then the next period that same asset was retired in accounting flexfield 100-220. So the report for 100-110 shows a beginning balance of $0, an addition of $100, and an ending balance of $0. And the report for 100-220 shows a beginning balance of $0, a retirement of $100, and an ending balance of $0. Has anyone made the same mistake and know how to fix the problem so the report is correct? Any suggestions are appreciated.

James Aesoph
402-595-4032



Approval Number against the Asset

Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:46:45 +1200
From: Neroli Anderson nanderson@swichtec.co.nz
Subject: FA: Approval Number against the Asset

Hello

We are currently implementing Oracle Assets in Release 10.7SC.

Our procedures require that a Capital Expenditure Request (CER) be submitted and approved by Management, prior to the purchase of an asset. Each CER is assigned a number. We would like to store this number against the asset in FA. While we could store this number in the Descriptive Flex on the Asset Workbench, this is less than ideal since this would mean doing most of our data entry on Mass Additions, then going back into each asset via the Workbench to enter the CER number. All other standard fields are being utilised.

I would appreciate hearing from anyone who can help, thanks

Neroli Anderson
Oracle Development Consultant
Swichtec Power Systems Limited
39 Princess St, PO Box 11-188, Christchurch 8030, New Zealand
Phone: (++64) 3 343-3314, Fax: (++64) 3 348-8871
Direct phone: (++64) 3 343 7454
Email: nanderson@swichtec.co.nz, Website: http://www.swichtec.co.nz


Reclassifying Cap. asset to expensed asset

Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 14:53:48 +1000
From: "Bevin Watson" bevin.watson@abs.gov.au
Subject: FA: Transferring of Assets

Fixed Assets, 10.7 (character mode) prod 16.1, current patch level. Assets does not allow you to reclassify assets between capitalised and expensed categories. (error APP-47863 and APP-47869). Despite this good advice, we have a need to transfer a number of assets from a capitalised category to an expensed category.

One option is to dispose of the assets and reenter them. Does anybody have any better suggestions?

TIA
Bevin Watson
Financial Systems Administrator
Australian Bureau of Statistics



Mass additions - asset merge

Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 12:03:42 -0400
From: jteague@suburban.com
Subject: FA: Mass Additions

We are on 10.7SC and have over 4000 mass addition lines each month. We merge many lines together,whereever CCID and invoice number is the same, however this a very tedious process.

I'd like to hear from other users on ways that you may have automated this process using SQL scripts to do the merge, or dumping out to Excel, summarizing there and then reuploading through ADI, or perhaps ways to reduce the number of mass addition lines.

Thanks
Jim Teague
Senior Financial Systems Analyst