ORACLE APPLICATIONS ARCHIVES

Topicwise collection of
Postings to Mailing Lists
ON
PROJECT ACCOUNTING



Transaction Import

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:26:17 PDT
From: Pandya Maruti vijaay@hotmail.com
Subject: Transaction Import - URGENT

Hi All,

I am getting error 'NO_MATCHING_ITEM' while running Transaction Import Process. I have some transactions with negative amount which are getting following error and I don't have any matching transaction in PA for these negative transactions .

Can anybody help me in this situation?

Thanks in advance.
Pandya.


Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 12:30:53 -0700
From: "Randal B. Martin" randalmartin@worldnet.att.net
Subject: RE: Transaction Import - URGENT

There is a column in the transaction interface table called 'UNMATCHED_NEGATIVE_TXN_FLAG' . If you are importing negative transactions that are not matched to a transaction existing in PA then you should set this flag to 'Y'.



PSI Tuning Strategies

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 08:59:08 -0600
From: "Jones, Tracy" tkjones@sandia.gov
Subject: PA: PSI Tuning Strategies

We are running Project Status Inquiry(PSI) setup jobs for Project Accounting. Does anyone have any tuning strategies for the jobs. They seem to take forever to run. We are currently running 80,000 transactions and it is taking over 12 hours to process. We are using 10.7 SC Prod 16.1 and HP Unix.


Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 13:57:43 -0600
From: "Deborah Linke" LINKE@wapa.gov
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca, tkjones@sandia.gov
Subject: Re: PA: PSI Tuning Strategies
Message-ID: s770e7eb.097@wapa.gov

We have this problem as well and would be very interested in any suggestions.

Deborah Linke
Western Area Power Administration
303-275-1618
linke@wapa.gov


Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 09:20:07 -0500
From: Mandar Dewoolkar-G1606C Mandar_Dewoolkar-G1606C@email.mot.com
Subject: Re[2]: PA: PSI Tuning Strategies

Hi,

We have a similar environment (10.7 SC Prod 16.1 and Unix) and I have been involved in a lot of assignments where jobs taking such long hours were cut down to a couple of hours or sometimes even minutes.

The PL/SQL book by Steven Feurstein is pretty good and you could find a lot more in some other books on tuning long running jobs. In no specific order, some hints that may be useful...

1. Use cursors and multiple SQLs instead of complex SQLs.
2. Design temp. tables or PL/SQL tables to store intermediate data.
3. Use EXPLAIN PLAN to find out which queries are taking more times.
4. Use Cost/Rule based optimizers and appropriate Hints.

Hope this is helpful.
Mandar


Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 16:40:04 -0600
From: kbrown@es.com
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: RE: Re[2]: PA: PSI Tuning Strategies

How does this apply to a standard oracle process, one that is not written by the individual user?


Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 10:39:57 +1000
From: Sheila Cruickshank scruickshank@assist.com.au
To: "'oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca'" oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: RE: Re[2]: PA: PSI Tuning Strategies

I think you will find that PA uses HINTS, but if you don't do the Table Analyze, which most sites don't, then you don't want to use Hints. It is normally recommended that for Oracle Financials all hints should be disabled and the rule-based optimizer should be used at all times. This is accomplished by setting the parameter '_optimizer_undo_changes' to be TRUE, in the init.ora file.
Hope this helps,
Sheila Cruickshank
ASSISt


Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 21:34:50 -0600
From: kbrown@es.com
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Cc: cworkman@es.com
Subject: RE: Re[2]: PA: PSI Tuning Strategies

Thanks, we'll give it a shot


Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 23:43:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Madhu Sudan Dada dada@csee.usf.edu
To: Multiple recipients of list oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: RE: Re[2]: PA: PSI Tuning Strategies

_optimizer_undo_changes is to revert to old optimization method. e.g. Oracle 6 optimization methods.

Madhu Sudan Dada



PATTAR spawned process

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 15:39:52 PDT
From: Pandya Maruti vijaay@hotmail.com
Subject: PA : PATTAR spawned process

Hi All,

I am trying to find out the report being run as a part of PAATTAR (PRC: Interface Invoice to Receivables). Can anybody suggest me how to find that report ? In concurrent program list, I find only above spawned program but there is no place I can find where report name is mentioned.

Thanks in advance.
Pandya .


Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 19:06:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Bertolotti billbert@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: PA : PATTAR spawned process

Pandya,

I believe the report that supports the interface to AR process is contained within the PATTAR Pro*C executable as well. There is no associated Reports 2.X version report as far as I know.

Bill Bertolotti


Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 09:05:14 PDT
From: Pandya Maruti vijaay@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: PA : PATTAR spawned process

Thanks for response Bill. Do you know where we can find this Spawned process code?

Thanks. Pandya .



Optimizer_undo_changes=TRUE

Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 18:58:07 +1000
From: Sheila Cruickshank scruickshank@assist.com.au
Subject: _Optimizer_undo_changes=TRUE - Projects

Can anyone tell me why we need to add this line _OPTIMIZER_UNDO_CHANGES=TRUE the init.ora file for Projects.

Is it something to do with projects reports containing HINTS Does it then not use the HINTs and revert to rule-based optimizer?
Thanks in advance, Sheila


Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 14:49:55 +0530
From: "GopalaKrishnan K" gopalak@wiproge.med.ge.com
Subject: Re: _Optimizer_undo_changes=TRUE - Projects

Hi !
_optimizer_undo_changes=TRUE is an undocumented parameter. This will override the default optimizer settings AS you know The SQLs in Oracle Apps are optimized based on RULE. The hints will be used if it is RULE.

Even if it is set to COST in INITfile this undocumented parameter will change the SQLs whisch has hints for rule to RULE based optimization
HTH
Regards,
K Gopalakrishnan
Database Administrator
GE Medical Systems Limited,
X Ray (South Asia) Pune-INDIA
Pin:411014 Ph # +91 20 6688693 /4


Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 20:47:19 -0400
From: fushan@gamma.aei.ca
Subject: Re: _Optimizer_undo_changes=TRUE - Projects

HI :

According to what I understand from this email, if I change the _optimizer_undo_changes to FALSE and set my optimizer as COST for Oracle Apps ( suppose to use RULE base ), Oracle Apps will be switched as COST base.

thanks


Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:36:45 +0530
From: "GopalaKrishnan K" gopalak@wiproge.med.ge.com
Subject: Re: _Optimizer_undo_changes=TRUE - Projects

Hi
You are absolutely correct
Gopal



Generate Draft Revenue for a single project

Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 11:21:02 -0400
From: Rangaraju_Krishna@tmac.com
Subject: Projects :PRC: Generate Draft Revenue for a single project

Hi Folks:

I am running PRC: Generate Draft Revenue for a single project and it returning an error as follows:

ORA-01427 : single_row subquery returns more than one row while generating draft revenue.

Intrestingly, it's not happening for all the projects.

Did any one faced similar problem?
Any suggestions are appreciated
Krishna


From: Orafin [mailto:orafin@sohm.soft.net]
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 9:53 AM
Subject: Re: Projects :PRC: Generate Draft Revenue for a single project

Can you explain what is this PRC...?


Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 07:31:04 -0700
From: CFowler@littonapd.com
Subject: RE: Projects :PRC: Generate Draft Revenue for a single project

In Projects the reports have a prefix:

AUD: Audit reports
IMP: Implementation listings
PRC: Processes (updates)
MGT: Management type reports


Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 18:32:04 -0700
From: Eric Tegenfeldt eric_tegenfeldt@rand.org
Subject: Re: Projects: PRC: Generate Draft Revenue for Single..

Good afternoon,

In response to both questions, the PRC.... is a standard process in Oracle Projects for generating revenue against one project.

Until the day when the Projects development team converts their Pro*C processes to PL/SQL (we can hope, can't we?), we can only guess at the cause of the errors. However, if I had gotten the error, (and I haven't), here are some of the things that I might check. My apologies in advance if you have already considered all of this.

1) Does a search of Metalink turn up anything under either "Generate Draft Revenue" or "PARGDR"?

2) Knowing the types of data that the Revenue process goes against, you might look for things like multiple agreements on that project, multiple customers, multiple active project managers, etc.

3) Extending item 2 even further, pull up all of the project and task info for this project and see if you see anything unusual that might result in a "duplicate row" situation. Likewise with the agreement, funding, budgets, expenditure items and/or events.

By the way, what release are you on? Here at Rand, they are on 10.7 SC.

Hope this helped a little,
Eric


Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 15:09:08 -0400
From: "Mull, Carol" MullC@orau.gov
Subject: RE: Projects :PRC: Generate Draft Revenue for a single project

Krishna,

We have had this problem before. Ours was due to a bug in HR which allowed us to give an employee 2 primary assignments. This caused the Generate Revenue process for this project to error out. If you run this process with the profile option PA: Debug Mode set to Yes and then look at the log file from the process, you may be able to determine what is giving you the problem. You can then mark that expenditure item as Non-Billable and generate revenue for the rest of the project until you can resolve the issue.

Carol



Commitments in R11

Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 11:52:21 -0400
From: Elizabeth Macri emacri@prg.com
Subject: Commitments in R11

We are migrating to release 11 and I have been playing in the Vision database and have a question on commitments.

In 10.7 you see all of the commitments for a project from the Project Summary screen in PSI. However, I am finding that this is not the case in R11.

You can still see them if you drill down to the task level but just not all at once in the summary screen.

Any info would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Elizabeth Macri


Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 10:27:43 -0700
From: "Randy Egger" regger@projectp.com
Subject: RE: Commitments in R11

Elizabeth-

The basic commitment processing logic remains the same from R10.7 to R11. The only difference is that R11 commitments support Project Manufacturing.


Update Project Summary process very slow

Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 10:36:07 -0600
From: "Snyder, Stephanie" Snyder.Stephanie@tci.com
Subject: PA: Update Project Summary performance issue

The PA process PRC: Update Project Summary Amounts for a Range of Projects is experiencing unacceptably poor performance. It is currently processing 1 project per 2 1/2 to 3 minutes. At this rate, it will take days to complete. We have a tar logged with Oracle, but I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem and can offer advice to boost performance?

Thanks in advance.


Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 10:50:24 -0700
From: "Nuyen, Mike" NuyenM@MTA.NET
Subject: RE: Update Project Summary performance issue

If you are on RDBMS 7.3.x. check the parameter below in your init.ora file. Make sure it's set to true
_OPTIMIZER_UNDO_CHANGES = TRUE


Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 12:08:08 -0600
From: "Snyder, Stephanie" Snyder.Stephanie@tci.com
Subject: RE: Update Project Summary performance issue

Is this an undocumented parameter? Can you tell me a little bit about it?

Thanks!


Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 11:30:34 -0700
From: "Nuyen, Mike" NuyenM@MTA.NET
Subject: RE: Update Project Summary performance issue

Prior to oracle7 the internal of the optimizer was modified to change the way that nested subqueries were handled. A side effect was that I slow down the performance of financial reports. To offset this the _OPTIMIZER_UNDO_CHANGES parameter is used. It is one of the parameter that needs to be set as part of the 10.7 upgrade process. For AIX It is documented in the system installation manual chapter3.



Autoaccounting and Dynamic insertion

Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 16:40:17 -0400
From: "Paradis, Dany" DParadis@teleglobe.ca
Subject: AutoAccounting in Project

Hello,

We are going to implement Project accounting and I would like to no if dynamic insertion should be on when we are using Auto Accounting.

Thanks
Dany Paradis
Pilote Financiers Oracle
Teleglobe Canada Inc.
T=E9l.: (514) 868-7228
Fax: (514) 868-7729


Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 16:48:51 -0400
From: "Robey, Bartley H" brobey@kpmg.com
Subject: RE: AutoAccounting in Project

Yes, dynamic insertion must be enabled in the GL for PA autoaccounting to work.

Thanks -
Bart Robey
KPMG Consulting
Voice Mail: (703) 747-5122
Email: brobey@kpmg.com


Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:40:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Leonard Leung leonardleung@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: AutoAccounting in Project

This is purely a functional decision that you will have to make. If you turn on dynamic insertion, then you will never know that the wrong account has been charged. If you turn off dynamic insertion then Oracle will generate an error each time a bad account is generated. This error message can be of some use to you. On a recent engagement of mine, we allowed the the account to error out, indicating to the user that he/she did not fill in an appropriate field.

Hope this helps, Lenny


AutoAccounting and Invoice interface

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 17:57:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: karl sta ines karlstaines@yahoo.com
Subject: AutoAccounting & Invoice Interface

PRC: Interface Draft Invoice to Receivables is failing, error message is: Unable to validate accounting flexfield. We are in 11.0.2

I have checked that 1.)the combinations that I am trying to create in my AA rule is valid. 2.) Dynamic Inserts is on 3.) Cross-validation rules are allowing these combinations 4.) PA, AR and GL periods are open.

I'd appreciate any help on where else I need to look.
Thank you very much. Karl


Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 17:12:15 -0500
From: "Sandler, Susan" Susan.Sandler@impacgroup.com
Subject: RE: AutoAccounting & Invoice Interface

Do you have any segments in your flexfield which are defined by not enabled/displayed? i.e. sometimes people define their COA such that there is a 'spare' segment for future use. If this segment is not enabled, but you include it in your autoaccounting, the autoaccouting creates code combos which have an extra segment. I know that I am reaching here, but this actually happened to me.

S.


Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 07:35:31 -0400
From: "Dawn M. Duvall" dduvall@mitretek.org
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca, karlstaines@yahoo.com
Subject: RE:PA AutoAccounting & Invoice Interface

Karl,

I've gotten this error on a number of Projects distribute/interface programs. Usually, there is a very specific message in the log file that will identify the exact segment/value/rule that is causing the problem. If the regular log file doesn't provide enough information, set the PA debug profile option to Yes, rerun the process, and check the log file again for additional messages.

Hope this helps. Dawn Duvall


Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 15:09:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: karl sta ines karlstaines@yahoo.com
Subject: AutoAccounting & Invoice Import

Dawn & Susan, thanks for the input.

I thought I'd mention what we've found out. The problem was in the AA rule. We want back to each one of them and put all constants and then one by one put the more complicated rules back.

Regards. Karl



How to knock off an excecc Credit Memo issued in PA

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 09:22:51 PDT
From: "Pandya Maruti" vijaay@hotmail.com
Subject: Credit memos in PA .... URGENT ...

Hi All,

Any help is really appreciated. My user created write off for an invoice to nullify the invoice. Since she didn't see that credit memo that time, she again created write off for that invoice. After some time , she saw to credit memos for one invoice. that is invoice is $100, and there are two credit memos of $100.

Is there any way to get rid of one credit memo out of two?
Thanks in advance.


Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:46:25 -0400
From: "Robey, Bartley H" brobey@kpmg.com
Subject: RE: Credit memos in PA .... URGENT ...

A couple of quesitons . . . Were the write-off invoices entered as 'events'? What is the status of the credit memo invoices; released, approved, accepted?

Bart Robey
KPMG Consulting
Voice Mail: (703) 747-5122
Email: brobey@kpmg.com


Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 10:08:09 PDT
From: "Pandya Maruti" vijaay@hotmail.com
Subject: RE: Credit memos in PA .... URGENT ...

Thanks for prompt reply. Yes the invoice was entered as 'events' and then user created write off twice against it. The status of credit memo (write off invoice) is approved. In fact when user creates write off invoice, it is automatically approved.

I would appreciate tf I get any solution for this.
Thanks.


Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 09:51:47 GMT
From: "Sunny Sunny" sunn999@hotmail.com
Subject: RE: Credit memos in PA .... URGENT ...

Hi,
U can create one more event with type "Scheduled Payment. A Scheduled Payment classification generates an invoice for the amount of the event. Oracle Projects marks expenditure items on the project being invoiced on a first-in first-out (FIFO) basis up to the amount of the event. When you use this classification, you can show details on an invoice even though the details are not used to calculate the bill amount." This can knock off the credit.


Date for processing Revenue

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 15:40:58 PDT
From: "Pandya Maruti" vijaay@hotmail.com
Subject: PA Date .... URGENT

Hi All,

My client wants to process revenue in July 99 but she wants revenue date as June 99 . Is that possible? We have 10.7SC.

Any help would be highly appreciated.
Thanks.


Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 10:11:54 -0400
From: "Robey, Bartley H" brobey@kpmg.com
Subject: RE: PA Date .... URGENT

I am a bit confused. Are you saying that the GL Date (for P&L) should be June '99 but the PA Date (for PA subledger reporting) should be for July'99? If so, can't be done.

It also sounds like may you want to open the PA Period to June '99 and process revenue for June'99. You can do that as long as you GL Date for June'99 is open, otherwise the revenue will go to the next open, earliest period in the GL, which may now be July (based on how far along the month of July is).

Feel free to expand on your question or my comments and I will answer back. Hope this helps.

Bart Robey
KPMG Consulting
Voice Mail: (703) 747-5122
Email: brobey@kpmg.com


Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 13:49:47 PDT
From: "Pandya Maruti" vijaay@hotmail.com
Subject: RE: PA Date .... URGENT

Hi Bart,

The question is :

My user has June 99 and July 99 PA period open. She already generated revenue for one project last month (June 99). That's why accrue through date is 17 Jun 99. Then she realised that that revenue is not proper and she wants to reverse that revenue. when she reverse the revenue, it is going to July 99 pa period and which she doesn't want. She wants to reverse that revenue for june 99 PA period only but since july 99 is current Pa period , it is going in july 99. in short , though current PA period is July99, she wants to reverse for June 99 PA Period. Can we do that?

The other question is :

Igf she close july99 temporarily and process reversal of revenue, will it go in June 99 ? GL is having June 99 as well as Jul 99 GL Period open.

Any help would be appreciated.


Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 20:40:43 -0400
From: "Robey, Bartley H" brobey@kpmg.com
Subject: RE: PA Date .... URGENT

Regarding you 1st question, if June 99 PA Period is 'open', and the expenditure item dates are on or before 17-JUN-99, then the reversal of that revenue should be for same PA Period (June 99). PA should not flag that revenue with July 99 if June 99 is 'open' (if June 99 is in fact closed', then it will assign July 99 as PA Period).

When the user generates (or re-regenerates) draft revenue, is PA picking up other expenditure for revenue with expenditure dates on or beyond 18-JUN-99?

In your note below, you mention that ' . . . but since july 99 is current Pa period . . . ', Is the user sure than June 99 is indeed 'open'?

Is the PA Date of the expenditures June 99 or July 99 in terms of costing?

Regarding your 2nd question, if the user closes July 99, the way you describe what is happening, it may not matter. PA is looking for the earliest, open PA Period on ofr after the expenditure item date/expenditure ending date. If the expenditures are costed for June 99, and June 99 is open, and the revenue is being generated with just these expenditure, then PA Period of June 99 should be assigned.

Please let me know is this makes any sense. If not, I can forward you my phone number and we can talk on Monday.

Thanks -
Bart Robey
KPMG Consulting
Voice Mail: (703) 747-5122
Email: brobey@kpmg.com


Time and Expense Billing

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 20:07:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: karl sta ines karlstaines@yahoo.com
Subject: Time & Material Billing in PA

What would prevent the system to not to bill expenditure sitting in my Time & Material project type? Default distribution rule is Work/Work. Project type is contract and I have funding and revenue budget. I am using a standard billing schedule - employee rate. I also tried bill rate override but did not work either.

I query my project and costs are charged there, but when I run PRC: Generate Draft Revenue & Invoice, the system comes back with no eligible expenditures in the project.

There are also no controls in place at the task level, e.g, task billable or non-billable. We are in Release 11.0.2.

Any input is greatly appreciated. Regards.


Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 08:31:07 GMT
From: "Sunny Sunny" sunn999@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: Time & Material Billing in PA

Hi,
Check out the project status,if its pending what type of actions does "Pending" allow else change it to "Completed" or any other status which allows Recognizing Revenue.

This may help. Regards, Sunil Wahi


Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 10:16:36 -0400
From: "Robey, Bartley H" brobey@kpmg.com
Subject: RE: Time & Material Billing in PA

Are the expenditures labor or materials (or both)? Is the project authorized (control billing by top tasks flags set)? Any issues with inconsistent dates (expenditure date vs process date)? Any hints in the log file or report output file? Do the individual tasks have any unique attributes setup that my differ from the project level attributes?

Just a couple of things I thought of quickly.
Bart Robey
KPMG Consulting
Voice Mail: (703) 747-5122
Email: brobey@kpmg.com


Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 10:45:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Bertolotti billbert@yahoo.com
Subject: RE: Time & Material Billing in PA

Even though the costs are there, have you run the distribute costs process, and the burdening process if required? The draft revenue requires that the costs are distributed and that the lowest level task is chargeable. Once the revenue is generated, the invoice process then looks at the cost distribution, revenue distribution and task chargeability. Also, is there a funded agreement for the project(s)?

Bill Bertolotti


Dynamic Insertion for Cost Distribution

Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 16:32:26 -0400
From: "Ynes Coiscou, TRI" YCoiscou@tricom.com.do
Subject: RE: AutoAccounting in Project

Hello all:
One more question about dynamic insertion. I'm trying to run Distribution Cost for Usage Costs (module PAPBER) and Interface Usage (module PATTER) in both process I'm getting error PAAACP-E DYNAMIC INSERTION IS NOT ALLOWED. Accounts combination are defined and active. I opened a TAR with oracle support and they said I need to have dynamic insertion ON in GL. I thought dynamic insertion ON or OFF is related with autoaccounting not for cost distribution processes. Any help will be appreciated. PA 10.7 SC16.1

TIA
Ynes Coiscou
Sub Gerente Sistemas Financieros
MIS, Tricom
Tel. (809) 476-4622
Mail:ycoiscou@tricom.com.do


Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 16:56:34 -0400
From: "Lau, Gabby" gLau@wssc.dst.md.us
Subject: RE: AutoAccounting in Project

Dynamic Insertions has to be turn on to allow creating new ccids in GL as long as the ccid passes the cross validation rules. If the ccid has not been created in GL, you either have to create the ccid in GL or turn dynamic insertion on.

Gabby


Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 17:17:45 -0400
From: "Ynes Coiscou, TRI" YCoiscou@tricom.com.do
Subject: RE: AutoAccounting in Project

I understand what you said but in my case I'm trying to run Distribution for usuage cost, the accounts combinations are valid and active. The process not need to create new accounts combination in GL.

TIA


Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 08:44:38 +0300
From: "Dina Rotem (h)" dinar@rafael.co.il
To: "Ynes Coiscou, TRI" YCoiscou@tricom.com.do, Ora OraApps-L@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: RE: AutoAccounting in Project

Ynes

Projects requires you have dynamic insertion turn on, absolutely. It isn't dependent if you already have the CCID or not. When you run distribute usages the system is creating the CDL, by using the auto accounting, and therefore you get the error.

Dina


Employee Cost Rate Date Restrictions (R11)

Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 12:00:54 -0400
From: "Robey, Bartley H" brobey@kpmg.com
Subject: PA: Employee Cost Rate Date Restrictions (R11)

Has anyone modifed the Employee Cost Rates form to remove the restrictions that the 'From' and 'To' dates must equate to the week as is defined in the implementations options? Basically, the requirement is to cost labor transactions with labor cost rates not constrained by a certain week format (e.g., Mon. - Sun.) in order to match to a payroll distribution of the 1st and 16th of the month. Goal is to collect actual labor costs in PA to derive the debit expense/inventory entry from autoaccounting.

Thanks in advance -
Bart Robey
KPMG Consulting
Voice Mail: (703) 747-5122
Email: brobey@kpmg.com


Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 11:28:29 -0500
From: "Matson, Mark J." MatsonMJ@bvsg.com
Subject: RE: Employee Cost Rate Date Restrictions (R11)

Bart,

We have a similar requirement. I have written an interface that populates the cost rates in the pa_compensation_details_all table. This interface populates the actual date of the cost rate change, not the date that would be computed on the screen. The next problem that you will have is that the Distribute Labor process does not use this "mid-week" cost rate. It uses the cost rate that is effective on the last day of the week that the expenditure occurred (expenditure_ending_date is used and you want it to use expenditure_item_date). To solve this problem, you can put code into the Costing Extension (pa_client_extn_costing) to calculate the cost based on the daily cost rate. I think this should answer your question. If I have been unclear about any of this, feel free to contact me directly.

I logged this problem as an enhancement request with Oracle Support back in November or December but nothing has happened with it yet. Perhaps if enough of us log this as an enhancement request, it will get more attention and a higher priority.

Mahalo (Thanks).
Mark J. Matson
BV Solutions Group
A Black & Veatch Company


Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 14:03:49 -0500
From: Badri Herur bherur@ix.netcom.com
To: Apps List oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca, brobey@kpmg.com
Subject: RE: PA: Employee Cost Rate Date Restrictions (R11)

Hi Bart,

Our approach to the employee cost rate PA week restriction:

At one of my clients, we implemented Oracle HR/Payroll and Projects and developed a custom process that keeps the employee salary in HR with the cost rates in PA. This was to circumvent dual data entry, but the solution works.

We did not face any issue with the effective dates falling between PA periods (weekly).

HTH Badri


Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 06:37:23 PDT
From: Rajesh KP appsuser@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: PA: Employee Cost Rate Date Restrictions (R11)

Hi

Can you not use employee cost rate overrides?

Rajesh