Tag Archives: Oracle Alerts

Moving Alerts Between R12 Instances

Problem:

How do I move Oracle Alerts between R12 instances?

Solution:

Use the FNDLOAD command.

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alecdc Program exited with status 255, -1073741819

Problem:

When an Oracle Alert is run in R12.1.3 on a Windows 2008 platform, the alert completes with status 255 or status -1073741819.

Solution:

Apply patch 13728376.

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Predefined HRMS Alerts Missing

Problem:

After installing R12 on Windows 2008, the predefined HRMS alerts (referred to in the Alerts documentation) missing.

Solution:

Use the FNDLOAD command to manually upload the missing alerts.

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Setting Up Oracle Alerts To Send Email Notifications

This document shows how to set up Oracle Alerts to send email notifications.

1. Navigate to Alerts and enter the following information:

Application: Application Object Library
Description: Send email Notification
Name: Send Email Notification

Under Periodic > Periodic Details
Frequency: Every N Calendar Days
Days: 1
Start Time: 07:00:00
End Time: 18:00:00
Check Interval: 00:30:00

Keep: 2 Days
End Date:

Select Statement:

select w.notification_id,
w. group_id,
w.message_type,
w.message_name,
rtrim(f.email_address),
substr(f.description,1,30) name,
w.to_user,
substr(w.subject,1,100) message_text
INTO
&notification_id,
&group_id,
&message_type,
&message_name,
&email_address,
&name,
&to_user,
&message_text
from
wf_notifications w,
fnd_user f
where
w.recipient_role = f.user_name and
w.status=’OPEN’ and
trunc(begin_date) = trunc(sysdate)

2. Click the Actions button.

3. Enter the following information:

Actions – Send Email Notification
Action Name: Email User
Description: Send User an email
Action Level: Detail

Action Details – Email User

To: &EMAIL_ADDRESS
Subject: PROD NOTIFICATION:&NOTIFICATION_ID – &MESSAGE_TYPE – &MESSAGE_NAME

Select Text.

Enter the following text into the textbox:

&NAME

Please log in to Oracle Applications and check your Notifications. &MESSAGE_TEXT

Link to Oracle:
http://appsserver.serverdomain.com:8000/OA_HTML/US/ICXINDEX.htm

This is an unattended messaging system. Please do NOT respond to this email.

Oracle Applications

4. Action Sets – Send Email Notification

Seq: 1
Action Set Name: Email Notification
Suppress Duplicates:
Enable:

5. Alert Details – Send Email Notification

Under the Outputs tab:

Output Name: NOTIFICATION_ID
Description: NOTIFICATION_ID
Detail:
Summary:

Output Name: GROUP_ID
Description: GROUP_ID
Detail:
Summary:

Output Name: MESSAGE_TYPE
Description: MESSAGE_TYPE
Detail:
Summary:

Output Name: MESSAGE_NAME
Description: MESSAGE_NAME
Detail:
Summary:

Output Name: EMAIL_ADDRESS
Description: EMAIL_ADDRESS
Detail:
Summary:

Output Name: NAME
Description: NAME
Detail: 40
Summary: 40

Output Name: TO_USER
Description: TO_USER
Detail:
Summary:

Output Name: MESSAGE_TEXT
Description: MESSAGE_TEXT
Detail: 150
Summary: 150