Personalization - run a request from menu

Question

Hi.
I'm trying to run a concurrent request (report) from an ebs form with personalization and pass some parameters to it (that's the tricky part).
Found a way, but I'm still curious if there is a better way to do it...
The calling part is quite easy:
1) Create a menu (SpecialX)
2) Create a Builtin 'Launch SRS Form' property with wanted request name, or Builtin 'Launch a function' FND_FNDRSRUN with request short name as a parameter for that SpecialX event
The easiest way to pass parameter to the request is to make a global parameter (:GLOBAL.XX_PARAM) on the form passing the parameter from and initialize it with the wanted value (usually item on the form).
That global parameter is then used as the default value (select :GLOBAL.XX_PARAM from dual) in the request definition, and when called from the form the parameter is copied to the request parameters.
There is also a way with passing parameters to the FND_FNDRSRUN function, and personalising the FND_FNDRSRUN form so that the parameters are forwarded to the request, but i dont like it very much.
Is there a better, cleaner way to pass the parameters to the request using personalization?
Thanks,
Regards,
Kris
Edited by: kristjan on Sep 1, 2011 2:39 PM

Answer 1

Hi,
Thanks, that's better way indeed.
If necessary you can call the request form afterwards to display the running/completed requests...
and the pl/sql source for running request:
FND_GLOBAL.APPS_INITIALIZE(user_id, resp_id, resp_app);
l_sub_request := false;
l_request_id := fnd_request.submit_request(
application
+, program+
+, description+
+, start_time+
+, l_sub_request+
+, argument1+
+, argument2+
+, argument3+
+, argument4+
+, argument5+
+, argument6+
+, argument7+
+, argument8+
+, argument9+
+, argument10+
+, argument11+
+, argument12+
+, argument13+
+, argument14+
+, argument15+
+);+
commit;
l_call_status := fnd_concurrent.wait_for_request (l_request_id,10,0,l_phase,l_status,l_dev_phase,l_dev_status,l_message);
Regards,
Kris
Edited by: kristjan on Mar 1, 2012 2:27 PM