Doubts regarding registering a table using AD_DD Package

Question

Dear Members,
Please give me some information on the following points:
1/ Parameter 'P_Nullable' in AD_DD.REGISTER_COLUMN
I have defined a custom table and in this table there are some primary columns and nullable columns.
Here my understanding is if the column is primary or not null then we should pass value 'N' to the parameter 'P_Nullable'.If it is a nullable column then we should pass value 'Y' to the parameter 'P_Nullable'.
Can any one please tell me is this right or wrong?
2/ Parameter 'P_Col_Width' in AD_DD.REGISTER_COLUMN
In my custom table I have some date columns defined.In some of the date columns iam storing the date as DD/MM/YYYY and in some of the columns iam storing the date format as DD/MM/YYYY HI:MM:SS.
For these date columns what width i should mention for the parameter P_Col_Width.
Your inputs will be of great help to me.
Thanks in advance.
Best Regards,
Arun Reddy.

Answer 1

Hi, here's a script that queries the rdbms data dictionary to use that information to register the table in oracle apps data dictionary. Regarding your concerns, it takes the adequate value for nullable parameter according to column definition, and for date columns, it doesn't matter the format used, the information is stored internally the same. For the lenght of this column data type what I use is 9 as this is used for seeded information on this type of columns.
Regarding the script, change the name of the table to the one to register or add more than one in the tablas_tab table variable. For the schema owner of the table, change XXAMX for the custom schema you defined.
A more "readeable" version is available on http://oracle.am0x.com/2008/02/script-para-registro-de-tablas-en-la.html , a blog I have on oracle applications development topics but is spanish.
prompt -- ======================================================================
prompt -- Registrando tablas en el diccionario de datos de la aplicación
prompt -- ======================================================================
declare
type tablas_t is table of varchar2(30) index by binary_integer ;
tablas_tab tablas_t ;
cursor columnas_cur(
b_table_name in varchar2 ) is
select atc.column_name col_name
, atc.column_id col_seq
, atc.data_type col_type
, decode( atc.data_type
, 'NUMBER', 38
, 'DATE', 9, atc.data_length ) col_width
, atc.nullable nullable
, 'N' translate
, data_scale scale
, data_precision precision
from all_tab_columns atc
where table_name = b_table_name ;
begin
-- Llenar la tabla con las tablas a registrar
tablas_tab(1) := 'XXAMX_TABLA_PERSONALIZADA' ;
for tabs in 1..tablas_tab.count() loop
ad_dd.register_table(
p_appl_short_name => 'XXAMX'
, p_tab_name => tablas_tab( tabs )
, p_tab_type => 'T' ) ;
for cols in columnas_cur(
b_table_name => tablas_tab( tabs )) loop
ad_dd.register_column(
p_appl_short_name => 'XXAMX'
, p_tab_name => tablas_tab( tabs )
, p_col_name => cols.col_name
, p_col_seq => cols.col_seq
, p_col_type => cols.col_type
, p_col_width => cols.col_width
, p_nullable => cols.nullable
, p_translate => cols.translate
, p_scale => cols.scale
, p_precision => cols.precision ) ;
end loop ;
end loop ;
end ;
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