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What is Web Adi

Web Applications Desktop Integrator (WebADI) is a self-service Oracle application
accessed using a browser. The WebADI software does not need to be installed on
individual client machines. Processing takes place on the server rather than on
individual client PCs. Web ADI generates Microsoft Excel or Word documents on your
desktop, and uploads the data you have selected to upload. The appearance of the
spreadsheet or word processing document is determined by configurable layouts.
System administrators can restrict the fields that end users work within the
spreadsheet, and can create different layouts for different users. Experienced users can also create
their
own layouts to include just the fields they need to work with.

Business Requirement (to understand web adi)

To create a sample Wed ADI lets assume that we have a business requirement to enter the out of
office
(ooo) contact details for employee. This ooo contact detail is stored in Extra person information
window.
Following are the three mandatory fields that need to be stored for an employee before going on
leave.
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1. Personal Email address

2. Personal Contact Number
3. Return Date

Business Solution (web adi setup)

Now we have a requirement in place the next steps would be to design a
soloution for this using Wed ADI. Though there are different ways to achieve this
(for example link the EIT to Self-Service) we are going to meet the requirement by
Wed ADI. Following are the basic steps to create a WED ADI to upload OOO
contact details for employee.
Code in the package is very simple and easy to understand. Using an api
hr_person_extra_info_api.create_person_extra_info this makes entry into the EIT. Just make sure
you
have already create EIT to store OOO information for employee.
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l_person_extra_info_id NUMBER
l_object_version_number NUMBER
l_information_type VARCHAR2 (100) := 'XX_AVI_OOO_CD' /*
This is the EIT Code*/
l_person_id NUMBER
l_error_flag boolean := false
e_no_emp_no EXCEPTION
e_no_details EXCEPTION

e_invalid_emp exception
BEGIN
IF p_employee_number IS NULL
THEN
l_error_flag := true
RAISE e_no_emp_no
ELSE
BEGIN
SELECT person_id
INTO l_person_id
FROM per_all_people_f
WHERE employee_number = p_employee_number
AND business_group_id =
fnd_global.per_business_group_id
AND TRUNC (SYSDATE) BETWEEN effective_start_date
AND effective_end_date
EXCEPTION
WHEN NO_DATA_FOUND
THEN
l_error_flag := true
RAISE e_invalid_emp
END
END IF
IF p_email_address IS NULL OR p_contact_number IS NULL OR

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Following window will

appear. Select
as an integrator. This
is the integrator given by
oracle to create any new integrator. As shown in the Fig.3.
Following screen will
appear. Select
as a layout as shown
in the fig.4.
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Select
None as content as shown
in the Fig.5.
A
review page will appear as
shown in the Fig.6. Click on

.
And then click on upload, as
given in the fig.7 below
Metadata Type CREATE
Application Short Name PER
Integrator User Name XX Out Of Office Contact Details
Form Name GENERAL
API Package Name XX_AVI_OOO_CD
API Procedure Name Enter_OOO_CD
Interface User Name XX Out Of Office Contact Details
Interface Parameter List Name XX OOO Details

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API Type PROCEDURE

Navigate to Desktop

Integration Define
Layout. A screen will appear. Select the integrator XX Out Of Office Contact Details we have just
created as shown in the fig.9
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Navigate to Application
Developer Application
Function and create a
function with following
details.
Description
: XX_AVI_OOO_CD
: Enter OOO Contact Details

Following screen will appear (Fig.12).

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and click on Add-Ins Oracle Upload.

login to oracle Select the
employee Number 258837
(or the one you have entered)
Others Extra Information
Select EIT Out Of Office
Contact Details. You will get
the information entered as given in the fig.15

Trouble shooting
for Web ADI
If you are getting this error while creating integrator please follow the below steps
1. Goto S >Application>Menu and query for
2. for this menu add the function

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You might need to enable the Macros before performing the steps. You may perform this as your
first
step.
1. Open an empty Excel sheet
2. Click on Excel Option
3. Click on trust center setting
4. Click on macros setting
5. Select the option Enable all macros (not recommended; potentially dangerous code can run)
and Trust
access to the VBA project object model
Read Web ADI Troubleshooting : Solve all excel related problems like Run-time error 91 for
comprehensive knowledge on web ADI troubleshooting.
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