by Peeyush Arora

Interview Questions 2019

Oracle:

Rehire through Form
Dates on termination form ? How it impacts the back end table
Can we rehire employee without Final Process Date?
Enable Half day leave for associates
Restrict Maternity Leave only for female associates
Accrual and Carryover Formula ?
Annual Leave and Flood leave is there , which has to be included in accrual, how we will do.
Costing and Costing of Payment Difference
EIT and SIT Difference
Costing Types: Costed, Fixed Costed and Distributed
GL Accounting Flexfield
Payroll and Core HR tables
AME
Flexfield Qualifiers
Per periods of service
Retro Pay : If after running retropay, we have to not process the records of few retro records how to do that
Prepayment: If default method is check, can it be overrided via direct deposit
Prepayment: salary has to be distributed in 30% HDFC and 70% in ICICI, how to do that.
How to place a validation in case gross salary is less then any fixed value, and payroll user should be aware . Report or message(Formula Result)
Dynamic And Static Approvals in AME?

Arowana:

Prepayments what it does, payment status ?
Costing : What it does and transfer to GL ,
Types of Costing
Nacha Process, what it does Setup of from where it picks the file
Costing not happening correctly in GL, what could be the reason for that.
Assignment Costing something
Approval for after payroll prcoess

 

GFI

Global Deployment
Employee Number Generation
Security List Maint.
Input Value Validation, How, If in case we put validation still validation fail what could be the reason for that?
Costing
Context and Reference Field in DFF
SIT in SSHR Page and Approvals
Maternity leave Validation and LOV control
Retropay
If we process retropay, we want to delete 10 records after that? If we don’t want any record to be processed in payroll ever then?
Distributed Costing
Major Customizatio Done?
AME Setup

 

 

by Peeyush Arora

New Interview Questions

1. What is interface and conversion and what interface you developed explain complete process along with error handling part.
2. API name and table for element entry
3. How to do conversion process.
4. Inbound interface name and outbounf interface name that you worked on.
5. AOL basics like tables for value set and types of value sets and table for indepdent VS.
6. Pragmatic autonomous transaction.
7. SQL function for string
8. Cascading Decode statement.
9. Bulk collect with limit syntax and limitation .
10. The largest component you have ever worked on explain that.
11. Unix basics command for file access.
12. XML publisher reports registration steps.
13. Trigger
14. All base tables name for Oracle HRMS
15. Workflow tables.
16. Hint in SQL
17. Public and private API in Oracle
18. Ref cursor and usage of that.
19. Collection type variables.
20. Count(*) will generate no data found exception or not if conditions don’t match in where clause.
21. How to generate XML file from PLSQL package.
22. How to migrate template from one instance to other.
23. How to skip records from ctl file.
24. What will be status after awaiting for shipping in o2c.
25. How to submit request set from back end.
26. Profile objective creation and order of precedence at different level.
27. Ddl dml and command for SQL.
28. Max number of the columns in oracle tables?
29. Total attributes in table atnd what is Global attribute.
30. Total segments in table kff enabled table.
31. Total size of any object in oracle database .
32. What is AuthID in create or replace. Package.
33. Difference between procedure and Function.
34. INOUT parameters what is the purpose of nocopy with that?
35. What is lookups and what all are the tables for the same.
36. If emp is terminated then what will be the current employer flag in per_all_peope_f table.
37. When to use NOCOPY parameters in parameters.

1. How to swap to different column values in a table
2. What is pragma autonomous transaction
3. API for emo cretion
4. How to continue the interface process if any errors comes in between
5. Ame steps to create rule for salary proposal
6.table to get the salary info And table if no payroll module is implemented.
7. PTO and absence formula for grade rule n fast formula
8. If we want to roll back the element entry processed through the batch process how we will do it
9. what is Batch process
10. Setup for Core HR , Payroll and setup level definition and what it is like organization, business group and payroll
11. Organization hierarchy for implementation setup
12. Payroll full life cycle before payroll process and after payroll process
by Peeyush Arora

Oracle Payroll Short Notes

Payroll

Payroll Description:

Date Offset

  • Check
  • Scheduled Run
  • Cut Off
  • Payslip

Costing: Costing and Suspense Account

Negative Payment Allowed/ Multiple Assignments

Consolidation Set

Payment Method:

GL Flex Field Mapping

Update Payroll Run Purpose?

Assignment Set: Criteria/Ammendment

Element Set: Include/Exclude/Element Rules/Classification Rules

GL Daily Rates

Conversion Rate Types

Monetary Units

Balance Set

Total Compensation

Earnings: Calculation Rule/ Termination Rules/Element Type/

Deduction

Element Description: Recalculation Events/Proration/Input Values/Balance Feeds/DFF

Multiple Entries/

 

by Peeyush Arora

How does the Retro Notification Report and Retropay (Enhanced) Work?

The retrospective changes made will be recorded in pay_process_events with the following details:

  • pay_process_events.effective_date as the effective date (back date) in the system on which the change/update was made
  • pay_process_events.creation_date as the system date when the change/update was made.

When the Retro Notification report (RNR) is run, it will check for the date stored in pay_recorded_requests.recorded_date with attribute_category RETRONOT_ASG. This will tell RNR till which date the events are processed for an assignment. And will find the new events (i.e. events with creation_date after the recorded_date) and process them. It will create retro assignments (pay_retro_assignments) and retro entries (pay_retro_entries)

The Retropay(Enhanced) will process the assignments for which records were inserted into pay_retro_assignments by last RNR. It reprocesses all payroll actions (Quick Pay, Run, Balance Adjustments and Reversals) and creates retro entries where variances in balances are found.

If you do any further retrospective changes, the date stored in pay_process_events.creation_date would be greater than the pay_recorded_requests.recorded_date. Hence it would be processed in the next RNR run. This RNR would insert a new record in pay_retro_assignments and the same would be picked up by Retropay (Enhanced).

 

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by Peeyush Arora

Extra Information Types (EIT) in Oracle Applications

In this blog I will explain how to create EIT in Oracle HRMS.EITs are basically Descriptive Flexfields (DFF).Standard product has EIT DFFs defined in forms such as Person,Assignment,Job etc.We can add segments to the defined DFF based on our requirements so that it will appear in corresponding screen.Compared to SIT EIT has added security.We can enable EIT  for specific responsibility.

Following steps needs to be perform to create EIT.

1) Create the DFF segments.

Navigate to Application Developer > Flexfield > Descriptive > Segments.

Query for Extra Person Information under Human Resources application.

Uncheck Freeze Flexfield Definition and create the segment.

Click on Segments.Enter the segment details.

Click on save.In the Descriptive Flexfield Segments window check the Freeze Flexfield Definition.Save your work.

2) Register the Extra Information Types.

Navigate to Super HRMS Manager responsibility.Select Register Extra Information Types (EITs) standard concurrent program from the SRS window.Give appropriate values and submit.

3) Assign the EIT to responsibility.

Navigate to Security > Information Types Security under any HRMS responsibility.

Choose the appropriate responsibility (Here I am using Human Resources, Vision Enterprises). Assign the above created EIT.

Save your work.

4) Test the EIT.

Navigate to Human Resources, Vision Enterprises responsibility.Choose any person of type Employee.Click on Others and choose Extra Information.

Save your work.

The above entered information will get populated in PER_PEOPLE_EXTRA_INFO.

The API to create EIT information is HR_PERSON_EXTRA_INFO_API.

by Peeyush Arora

Date Track Modes

Update Date Track Modes

CORRECTION : Over writes the data. No history will maintain.
UPDATE : Keeps the history and new change will effect as of effective date
UPDATE_CHANGE_INSERT : Inserts the record and preserves the future
UPDATE_OVERRIDE : Inserts the record and overrides the future

 Delete Date Track Modes

ZAP : wipes all records
DELETE : Deletes  current record
FUTURE_CHANGE : Deletes current and future changes.
DELETE_NEXT_CHANGE : Deletes next change

by Peeyush Arora

How to Create Custom Employee Number Generation via Fast Formula

1. Create Sequence
create sequence sac_emp_number
start with 1

2. Create Function to Generate Desired Sequence Number
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION SAC_GENERATE_EMP_NUMBER (
p_business_group_id   IN NUMBER,
p_person_type         IN VARCHAR2,
p_party_id            IN NUMBER
)
RETURN VARCHAR2
IS
l_emp_number         VARCHAR2 (15) := NULL;
l_applicant_number   VARCHAR2 (15) := NULL;
l_npw_number         VARCHAR2 (15) := NULL;
l_auto_number        VARCHAR2 (15) := NULL;
BEGIN
BEGIN
SELECT   employee_number, applicant_number, npw_number
INTO   l_emp_number, l_applicant_number, l_npw_number
FROM   per_all_people_f
WHERE   party_id = p_party_id
AND TRUNC (SYSDATE) BETWEEN effective_start_date
AND  effective_end_date;
EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS
THEN
l_emp_number := NULL;
l_applicant_number := NULL;
l_npw_number := NULL;
END;

IF     l_emp_number IS NULL
AND l_applicant_number IS NULL
AND l_applicant_number IS NULL
THEN
IF p_person_type = ‘EMP’
THEN
l_auto_number := ‘SAC-‘ || sac_emp_number.NEXTVAL;
ELSIF p_person_type = ‘APL’
THEN
l_auto_number := ‘APL-‘ || sac_emp_number.NEXTVAL;
ELSIF p_person_type = ‘CWK’
THEN
l_auto_number := ‘CONT-‘ || sac_emp_number.NEXTVAL;
END IF;
END IF;

RETURN l_auto_number;
EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS
THEN
NULL;
END;
/
3. Attach Setup Business Group to Global Super HRMS Manager 
Navigation: System Administrator -> Profile -> System
Responsibility Name: Global Super HRMS Manager
Profile Option Name: HR: Security Profile
Set Profile as “Setup Business Group” at Responsibility Level

Note:
The Above Step is Mandatory as one cannot generate Auto Employee Numbering on any custom Business Group. This could be possible on “Setup Business Group”

4. Create Formula Function: 
I. Navigation: Go to Global Super HRMS Manager -> Other Definitions -> Formula Functions
II. Function Name: SAC_NUMBER_GENERATION
III. Parameters:
• Data Type: Text
• Class: External function
•  Definition: <Name of the Function> SAC_GENERATE_EMP_NUMBER

Context Usages

Parameters

5. Create Fast Formula: EMP_NUMBER_GENERATION
Navigation: Global Super HRMS Manager -> Total Compensation -> Basic -> Write Formulas

The Below Naming Convention should be used, so as to Generate Custom Auto Numbering Sequence for Employee, Applicant or Contingent Worker

I. Employee EMP_NUMBER_GENERATION Person Number Generation
II. Applicant APL_NUMBER_GENERATION Person Number Generation
III. Employee CWK_NUMBER_GENERATION Person Number Generation

Type: Person Number Generation

Formula (For your Reference):
default for party_id is 0
inputs are
person_type (text),
party_id (number)

next_number = ‘0’
next_number = sac_number_generation(person_type,party_id)
return next_number

Please note if one has different Numbering Sequence in-case of Multiple business groups, it has to be handles via Fast Formula or PL/SQL Code

 

** Notes**

  1. Change of Method from Automatic to Manual is possible. But Till Global NUmber is not generated.

If you choose Employee Number Generation = Manual, and then later decide to change to Automatic, you can do this.
But, if you started as Manual, and then changed to Automatic, and then once again want to change back to Manual, Employee Number Generation = Manual will no longer show up in your LOV for Employee Number Generation.

by Peeyush Arora

AME Short Notes

AME consist of:

  1. AME Transcation Type : Encapsualtion of Business Rules
  2. AME Attributes: Variables
  3. AME Rule : Combo of if else condition
  4. AME Action : Return Value
  5. AME Approval Group : Can be static or dynamic

Profile option “AME:Installed” must be set to Yes, at application level to the calling application to be able to use AME.. For example, to make iExpenses use AME, you should set profile to Yes for “Payables” Application.

AME Transaction Type : Can be created by resp. Approvals Management Administrator

Rest all : Approvals Management Business Analyst

HOW AME RELATES TO SELF SERVICE HR

Form Function:

2 parameters named pAMETranType and pAMEAppId are passed as parameter to the Form Function. This tells which AME Transaction Type will be used by the SSHR screen.

However the decesion of whether AME is switched ON or OFF is decided by a Wokflow Activity named “Review Page”.

HR_APPROVAL_REQ_FLAG: If yes then AME else not.

HR_API_TRANSACTIONS
HR_API_TRANSACTION_STEPS
HR_API_TRANSACTION_VALUES

 

hr_transaction_swi.commit_transaction  This API commits transaction

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Implement AME in Self Service transaction:

  1. Find the function, where it needs to be enabled. Provide details in Form Fucntion tab.
  2. Make a copy of existing process.
  3. Link new process to new function created in Fucntion Tab.
  4. Enable FLAG : HR_APPROVAL_REQ_FLAG in Review Page.
  5. Update Condition for Transaction ,WORKFLOW_PROCESS_NAME in (ADS_HR_COMPTNC_PROFILE_JSP_PRC, ADS_OTA_ENROLL_IN_TRN_JSP_PRC, ADS_USHR_HR_XFER_ICD_JSP, HR_APPRAISAL_DETAILS_JSP_PRC, HR_ASSIGNMENT_JSP_PRC, HR_ASSIGNMENT_TERMS_JSP_PRC, …)

For check how it is working:

  1. Status Monitor in Workflow Administration.