Appreciate your feedback: Usability - A good UI is revitalizing

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Dear experts,
I would appreciate your feedback and rating for the blog http://scn.sap.com/community/best-built-applications/blog/2012/03/21/usability--a-good-ui-is-revitalizing#
Thanks in advance,
Regards,
Leon

Answer 1

Hi,
There are some mistakes in your procedure
1) you are passing the object verison number to the api from the per_all_people_f which should not be the case. you need to pass from the per_all_assignments_f object version number as your updating assignment screen not people screen.
2) Use the Date track mode as Update , so that old superviosr data or any record will be end dated and new record will be created.
3) In exception it is always advisable to write dbms_output.put_line(SQLERRM). so that it will give u the exact error if any occurs during execution of program.
there is no table with per_assignments_x , use the table per_all_assignments_f which is a date track table for assignments
see the below eg : pass the parametres where ever required. which will help you writing your procedure.
declare
l_assignment_id number:=> pass the assignment id of the employee;
l_obj_version_number number:=>fetch and pass the object version number of the assignment
begin
hr_assignment_api.update_gb_emp_asg
(p_validate => false
,p_effective_date => pass the date from which u want to update the assignment
,p_datetrack_update_mode => 'Update'
,p_assignment_id => l_assignment_id
,p_object_version_number => l_obj_version_number
,p_supervisor_id => pass the supervisor_id
,p_cagr_grade_def_id => l_cagr_grade_def_id
,p_cagr_concatenated_segments => l_cagr_concatenated_segments
,p_concatenated_segments => l_concatenated_segments
,p_soft_coding_keyflex_id => l_soft_coding_keyflex_id
,p_comment_id => l_comment_id
,p_effective_start_date => l_effective_start_date
,p_effective_end_date => l_effective_end_date
,p_no_managers_warning => l_no_managers_warning
,p_other_manager_warning => l_other_manager_warning
,p_hourly_salaried_warning => l_hourly_salaried_warning
commit;
exception when others then
dbms_output.put_line(SQLERRM);
end;
Hope it helps
Cheers