System Profile options Types and uses

hierarchy and Levels of Profile options :-

Profile categories, or hierarchy types, enable system administrators to group and set profile options according to their business needs or the needs of the installation. You can view and set a profile option at the levels of its hierarchy type. As a system administrator, you can use the System Profile Values window in Oracle Applications Forms to set up profile options for your user community. If you change a user profile option value, your change takes effect as soon as your users log on again or change responsibilities, and bounce the apache server. When you set up a user profile, you provide Oracle Applications with standard information (such as printer) that describes a user, Responsibility, application, or site. You can set up values for user profile options at each of the following profile levels.

• Site: Option settings pertain to all users at an installation site.
• Application: Option settings pertain to all users of any Responsibility associated with the application.
• Responsibility: Option settings pertain to all users currently signed on under the Responsibility.
• User: Option settings pertain to an individual user, identified by their application user name.

The values you set up at each level provide run-time values for each user's profile options. An option's run-time value becomes the highest level setting for that option.

When you can set a profile option at more than one level, the priorities from lowest to highest are:

• Site has the lowest priority.
• Application supersedes Site.
• Responsibility supersedes Application.
• User has the highest priority.

For example, values at the Application, Responsibility, or User levels can override a value at the Site level. A value at the User level has the highest priority and overrides values at any other level.

For example, for a given user, assume the printer option is set only at the Site and Responsibility levels. When the user logs on, the printer option assumes the value set at the Responsibility level, since it is the highest level setting for that option.

Note: As a System Administrator, you should set site-level option values before specifying profile options at the other levels after the installation of Oracle Applications.

The options specified at the site-level work as defaults until the same options are specified at other levels. Application users can use the Personal Profile Values window to set their own personal profile options at the user level. Not all profile options are visible to users. End-users might not be able to update some visible profile options.