Click on the Define Stages Button and you will get Following Screen (figure 13).

Define Stages Screen

Figure 13. Request Sets Stages Form

Field Description

i) Set Name and Set Application Name will get defaulted from the previous screen. You need to define all the stages, which you want to run as the part of the request set.

ii) Enter the ‘Sequence’, any relevant ‘Stage name’ and ‘Description’ for this stage.

iii) Stage Code: Enter a Stage Code for the stage. This code is used internally by Oracle Applications to reference the stage.

iv) Function: The function file specifies how the outcomes of the requests in this stage affect the outcome of the stage. The default value for this field is the Standard Stage Evaluation function. This function bases its completion status on the normal completion status of the requests it contains.

v) Application: This field is defaulted to ‘Application Object Library’.

vi) The Return Value of this Stage Affects the Set Outcome: Ensures that the request set's completion status is equal to the completion status of this stage.

vii) Allow Incompatibility: Allows your system administrator to specify programs that this stage is incompatible with (may not run with). Leave Allow Incompatibility unchecked to specify that this stage of the request set may run with all other concurrent requests or request sets.

viii) Click on the ‘Requests’ button and following screen (figure 14) will be displayed.

Figure 14. Request Sets Stages Requests Form

Field Description

i) The ‘Set’, ‘Set Application’ and ‘Stage’ fields default from the previous screen.

ii) Enter the ‘Sequence’ number.

iii) Select the concurrent program name from the LOV in the ‘Program’ field. Also Enter relevant description.

iv) ‘Print Options’: Enter the number of ‘Copies’, print ‘Style’ and ‘Printer’ name.

When you click parameters button, following screen (figure 15) will be displayed with the parameters defaulted from the concurrent program definition. You can overwrite the default value for the parameters in this screen.

Figure15. Request Sets Stages Parameters Form

Field Description

i) Sequence: The Sequence field displays the order in which each request parameter appears when you run the request in the Submit Requests window.

ii) Prompt: The Prompt field shows the request parameter's prompt.

iii) Display: Check the Display check box to specify that you can see a request parameter at submission time, or uncheck the check box to specify that a parameter should not be displayed at submission time. If a parameter is not displayed, then its default value will be used.

iv) Modify: Modify check box specifies whether you can insert or change the value for a request parameter at submission time.

v) Shared Parameter: The shared parameter field enables you to enter the value for a parameter only once even if it occurs across multiple requests in a request set.

Following screen (figure 16) will be displayed when you click the link stages button on the Request Sets Screen.

Figure 16. Request Sets Link Stages Form

This form (figure 16) is used to define the dependencies between the various stages of the request sets.

Field Description

i) Set – Defaulted from Request Sets Screen

i) Set Application – Defaulted from Request Sets Screen

ii) Start Stage – Stage with you want to be run as the first stage of the program.

iii) Display Sequence – Defaulted from Define Stages Screen

iv) Name - Defaulted from Define Stages Screen

v) Success – You need to enter the name of the stage which you want to run when the Stage in the Name field completes successfully.

vi) Warning - You need to enter the name of the stage which you want to run when the Stage in the Name field completes with warning.

vii) Error - You need to enter the name of the stage which you want to run when the Stage in the Name field completes in error.

Save the record by Clicking File->Save or Cntl-S. Your request set definition is complete.

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