What is value set in Oracle application AOL

Value set is primarily a container for your values, you define your value set such
that it can control the types of values that are allowed into the value set (either
predefined or non validated). You can specify the format of your values.
Oracle Application Object Library uses value sets as important components of key
flexfields, descriptive flexfields, and Standard Request Submission (value sets for
report parameters for your reports that use the Standard Request Submission
feature).

When to defining Values for Value Sets

After you register your Flexfields & report parameters, if you are using
independent or dependent value sets, you can enter values into each
corresponding value set using the Segment Values form.
Values for the Value Sets, we are defining will be kept in the Oracle Application
Object Library s tables.

How many Format Types the value set have

Character
Number
Time
Standard Date, Standard Date Time
Date, Date Time

You should take a note that Date and Date Time value set formats will be obsolete now
and are provided for backward compatibility only. For new value sets, use the the format
types Standard Date and Standard Date Time.
What is Security type in value set?

By Security Rules window, we can define value security rules for ranges of
flexfield and report parameter values.

There are two levels where you must activate Security, the one at value set level and
other at individual segment or parameter level. You make Flex field Value Security
available for your value set by choosing Hierarchical Security or Non-Hierarchical
Security for the Security Type. When you make security available for a value set, all
segments and report parameters that use that value set can use security. You then enable
security for a particular segment or parameter.

Choose Hierarchical Security, If you want Security on a parent value to Cascade

down to its child value or else you can choose Non-Hierarchical Security.

How many Character Formatting Options have for value set?

Numbers Only (0 - 9)
o We cannot prevent users from entering a value that contains the radix
character.
o Cannot be used in Translatable Independent and Translatable Dependent
value sets.
Uppercase Only
o Here also we cannot use in Translatable Independent and Translatable
Dependent value sets.
Right justify and Zero fill Numbers
o If you have selected Numbers Only (0 9) flag, then it wont allow you to
affect this flag.
o We are recommended to use this in Accounting Flex fields.
Minimum and Maximum Value Range
o Your Minimum/maximum value may not be longer than the maximum
size you specify for this value set.
o Once you specify a range of values, you cannot define a new valid value
that falls outside this range.
o The Minimum Value and Maximum Value fields can therefore allow you
to create a value set with a validation type of None.

How many validation Type does value set have?

There are several validation types that affect the way users enter and use segment or
parameter values:

None (not validated at all).

o Allow users to enter any value.
o Only Format Validations will be done.
Independent.
o Provides a predefined list of values.
o Independent values are stored in an Oracle Application Object Library
table.

Dependent.

Same
like

Independent Value Set, except the List of Values shown to you will
depends on which the Independent value you have selected in the Prior
Segment.

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Table.
It use your own application tables as value sets for flex field segments and
report parameters instead of the special values tables which Oracle
Applications provides.
o You can also use validation tables with other special arguments to make
your segments depend on profile options or field values.
o You can use any existing application table, view, or synonym as a
validation table.
o If we are using non registered table for our value set, then we have to
Create the necessary grants and synonyms to APPS Schema.
o The value column and the defined ID column in the table must return a
unique row for a given value or ID.
o If the Hidden Id column is provided the value passed to the report will be
Hidden and not the Value column.
o Similarly, when you specify :$FLEX$.Value_Set_Name, your flex field
segment or report parameter defaults to always use the hidden ID column
to compare with your WHERE clause .
o We can use Special BIND variable such as :$PROFILES$.Option_name, :
$FLEX$.Value_set_name, :block.field in the WHERE clause.
o We can also display additional columns.
Ex: Column_name1 Column Title (Width),
org_id Organization (30)
Special.
o Special validation value sets allow you to call key flex field user exits to
validate a flex field segment or report parameter using a flex field within a
flex field mechanism. You can call flex field routines and use a complete
flex field as the value passed by this value set.
Pair.
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Must define your independent value set before you define the dependent
value set that depends on it.
Advisable to create your independent values first.
Must create at least one dependent value for each independent value, or
else it wont allow you to enter into that segment or field.

Pair validation value set allows user to pass a range of concatenated Flex
field

segments as parameters to a report.

Translatable Independent & Translatable Dependent
o These value sets are similar to Independent and Dependent value sets
except that translated values can be displayed to the user. Translatable
Independent and Translatable Dependent value sets allow you to use
hidden values and displayed (translated) values in your value sets. In this
way your users can see a value in their preferred languages, yet the values
will be validated against a hidden value that is not translated.
o We can convert the Independent value set to a Translatable Independent
value set, or a Dependent value set to a Translatable Dependent value set.
These are the only types of conversions allowed.

Which Oracle table store Value sets and underline information

FND_FLEX_VALUE_HIERARCHIES
FND_FLEX_VALUE_SETS
FND_ID_FLEX_SEGMENTS

FND_FLEX_VALUE_NORM_HIERARCHY
FND_FLEX_HIERARCHIES
FND_FLEX_VALUE
FND_FLEX_VALIDATION_EVENTS
FND_FLEX_VALUE_RULE_LINES
FND_FLEX_VALUE_RULE
FND_FLEX_VALUE_RULE_USAGE
FND_RESPONSIBLITY
FND_TABLES
FND_FLEX_VALIDATION_TABLES
Any method to upload flexfield value?
Yes, FNDLOAD is utility which can be used for moving value set across different
environment.See the FNDload post.
Do we have any restriction on value set?
Yes, here are some listed one:

Table Validated Value Sets

o We cannot use table-validated id value sets for any accounting flexfield or
any other key flexfields.
o We cannot use :$FLEX$, :$PROFILES$ in table name, value and id of
table validated value sets.
o We cannot use DISTINCT clause in any of the column fields or in the
WHERE clause of a table validate value set.

In an id value set, the value can be non-unique but id should be unique. In

a non-id value set, value should be unique.
o We can only use columns selected for the table-validated value set must be
of type NUMBER, DATE or VARCHAR2.
o Support for SQL expression in columns of Table Validated value sets will
be obsolete in future release.
Translatable Independent and Translatable Dependent Valuesets
o The Numbers Only and Uppercase Only option cannot be used.
o Must have "Char" format type.
Special/Pair valuesets
o Special/Pair value sets are user-exit value sets . PL/SQL APIs will not be
able to validate them.
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