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Tuesday, June 29, 2004

How to clear the Oracle Jinitiator Cache

This post talks about Jinitiator cache and the need to clear it on a periodic basis.

Today I was reminded about the necessity to clear your Jinitiator cache on a periodic basis. I was creating a worksheet in Oracle PSB and having selected the option to “Budget by Position”, when I tried to specify the data extract in the next field I received a rather bizarre error message - field does not understand operation. A quick check on Metalink revealed doc id. 248973.999 which suggested that I clear the Jinitiator cache. I checked the cache folder and found that it had a about 45MB worth of files - obviously it hadn’t been cleared in some time!!

My understanding of the Jinitiator cache is that it’s pretty much like the windows temp directory in that it needs to be cleared periodically. I thought it would be useful to highlight how to clear the cache files as well as remind users that this activity should be performed on a periodic basis as it may lead to obscure errors. I’ve also created a new category for Jinitiator for future posts specifically related to Jinitiator.

The first way to clear the Jinitiator cache is to simply delete all the files found in the cache directory. The cache directory is normally found on c:\program files\oracle\jinitiator 1.x.x\jcache. The second alternative is via the control panel, the steps are as follows: -

1. Go to Start -> Settings -> Control Panel
2. Double click on ‘JInitiator 1.x.x’
3. Select Cache TAB from ‘JInitiator Control Panel’
4. Click the Clear JAR Cache Button.

For an overview, setup and troubleshooting guide to Jinitiator for Oracle’s E-Business Suite 11.5.x (11i) refer to Metalink note 162488.1

For an overview, setup and troubleshooting guide to Jinitiator for Oracle’s E-Business Suite 10.7NCA and 11.0.x refer to Metalink note 206485.1

Saturday, June 26, 2004

New Oracle Projects and Manufacturing contributor

This post contains details of a new author who has joined OracleAppsBlog and will be blogging under the Manufacturing and Projects Categories

Nancy Beck, a Developer working for AAR Corp, is joining OracleAppsBlog and will be writing under the Projects and Manufacturing Categories. Nancy has over six years experience with Oracle as a manufacturing implementation consultant for Oracle E-Business suite, starting with 10.7 and ending with 11.5.9. You can read Nancy’s membership profile here or if you’re a member you can e-mail Nancy via the profile e-mail console.

I wanted to welcome Nancy to the Blog and introduce her to all the other members. Thanks in advance for all your future contributions, I am sure your experience will add some interesting content to the blog :coolsmile:

Friday, June 25, 2004

Oracle Advanced Pricing Module

This post contains details of a new author who has joined OracleAppsBlog and will be blogging under the Advanced Pricing Category

Suvabrata Biswas, an Oracle Applications Consultant who runs a consulting company based out of Houston Texas, is joining OracleAppsBlog and will be blogging under the Advanced Pricing Category. This category didn’t exist before so I have added it.

Suv has broad functional experience in Advanced Pricing, Bills of Materials, Assemble to Order, Quality, Engineering, Inventory, Work in Process, Procurement, Cost Management, Enterprise Asset Management, Order Management, Planning and MultiOrg. He also has broad technical experience with Oracle Application’s technical architecture, Oracle tools and operating systems such as Unix and NT. You should also check out his companies site. You can read Suv’s membership profile here or if you’re a member you can e-mail Suv via the profile e-mail console.

Welcome to OracleAppsBlog and we look forward to your contributions 😊

Oracle Apps Implementation Documentation for a University

This post contains details of implementation documentation for an Oracle Applications Implementation at the Queensland University of Technology. In particular, I will discuss the Chart of Accounts documentation available at the Universities web site.

The Queensland University of Technology has some very useful Business Forms, Procedure Manuals and Training Documentation at the Division of Finance and Resource Plannings site. In particular the Chart of Accounts documentation clearly illustrates the accounting flexfield structure and associated values that should be used in such types of organization as a University.

Another sample Chart of Accounts can also be downloaded from my personal site.

Thursday, June 24, 2004

Oracle Applications Documentation - Business Forms, Procedures and Training Manuals

This post contains information on some Oracle Documentation I came across at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

According to their site, “the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) implemented Oracle Financials in October 1998. Over 350 users campus wide access the on-line system to prepare journal entries, inquire about account transactions and run custom and standard reports”.

I found some useful documentation on their site and thought I should mention it to readers of the blog. The Finance and Administration  section of the Institutes site has some very useful Business Forms, Procedures and Training Manuals which they used in their implementation and which I believe would be useful to other Apps implementors. Make sure you look under the Training Material section where you will find the Accounting Practices, Procedures and Protocol Manual.