POI Information Updates when Costing Changes are not Saved

Question

Hi All,
When you go to the costing screen of a party in Oracle HRMS, make changes to the costing string (Cost Allocation Flexfield) and not save them. Then, exit from the costing form and go to the Purchase Order Information (POI) screen and press Ctrl+F11, the POI information updates to the new changes. It was my understanding that in order for the purchase order info to be updated you need to make changes or "touch" the costing screen and save. I have noticed that the purchase order changes after being in the costing screen even without saving anything. Was this intend?
Thanks,
Naveen Gagadam

Answer 1

The Changes on the Assignment reflect because of the changes on the Costing Screen. This is due to the custom.pll implementation. Is there an event name that I can use for the Assignment form such that the changes on the Assignment screen show up only after the changes are SAVED on the Costing Screen. Here's the code that we are using in the Procedure: Event of the custom.pll
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If Event_name = 'WHEN-VALIDATE-RECORD' then
--     1. Costing checks at Assignment (PERWSEAC). This code copies first 4 segments of costing string
--               to Default Expense Account on the Assignment screen.The Code will perform this function for
-- the first Costing record but no other record.
if name_in('system.current_form') in ('PERWSEAC') then
     Step_identity := 'Costing to Expense Account Population';
               if name_in ('system.cursor_block') = 'COST' then
-- Check if current record is the first record in the block
-- prior to 4/6/05 this code only ran if first costing record. now runs for all and passes
-- whether first record to package. B Wagner                    
if name_in('system.cursor_record') = '1' then
          lvc2_first_rec := 'Y';
else
     lvc2_first_rec := 'N';
end if;
                    if name_in('COST.SEGMENT1') is not null
               and name_in('COST.SEGMENT8') is not null
               and name_in('COST.SEGMENT2') is not null
               and name_in('COST.SEGMENT3') is not null then
                         lvc2_company_nm     := name_in('COST.SEGMENT1');
                         lvc2_LOB := name_in('COST.SEGMENT8');
                         lvc2_location := name_in('COST.SEGMENT2');
                         lvc2_dept := name_in('COST.SEGMENT3');
                         FND_PROFILE.get('USER_ID',ln_user_id );
     -- It has been assumed that the seperator for the flexfield segments is a period ('.') .
     -- If the seperator is changed then the following line of code has to be modified.
     -- If the number of segments in the flexfield definition is changed then the number of
     -- separators has also to be modified.
ln_assignment_id := name_in('COST.ASSIGNMENT_ID');
ld_session_dt := name_in('CTL_GLOBALS.SESSION_DATE');
smc_customlib.set_exp_act(
                                                                 ln_retcode,
                                                                 lvc2_errbuf,
                                                                 ln_user_id,
                                                                 ln_assignment_id,
                                                                 ld_session_dt,
                                                                 lvc2_company_nm,
                                                                 lvc2_LOB,
                                                                 lvc2_location,
                                                                 lvc2_dept,
                                                            lvc2_first_rec
if ln_retcode = -1 then
     -- b wagner 4/6/05 - raise trigger failure so bad combinations can't be entered into costing screen
     fnd_message.set_string(lvc2_errbuf);
     fnd_message.error;
     raise form_trigger_failure;
end if;
                    end if; -- If costing string is complete
               end if;   If First Record of COST Block
               end if; -- If Block is COST
     end if;     -- For Assignment form.
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Its the custom package that actually populates the changes in Costing Screen onto the Assignment Screen, but I want to activate this only when I save the changes on the Costing Screen. Right now the changes are seen on Assignment Screen when I hit CTRL=F11 even when I don's save the Costing Screen changes.
Thank You,
Ngagadam.
Message was edited by:
Naveen Gagadam
Message was edited by:
Naveen Gagadam
Message was edited by:
Naveen Gagadam
Message was edited by:
Naveen Gagadam