Toggle User Context During Processing

Question

Hi,
We have a custom interface which was designed to retrieve data from a linked database. At design time, all the data in this database was input by series of online forms (Oracle Forms or Java forms). Recently, we are also accepting data into the same database from an OCR source - this was sensible as the data is for the type of transaction and meant not re-engineering/duplicating anything.
The custom PL/SQL interface to download all this data from the database is run from a concurrent program in EBS, associated to a specific "user" for that process e.g. EFORM. Everything works fine but the end-user would like to see whether the data was souced from an online form or an OCR scan. We already hold this distinction on the linked database.
I suspect theoretically I should be splitting the concurrent program into 2 programs; one for the online input and one from the OCR input and tweak each to retrieve the pertinent input types. However, this seems like unnecessary replication.
My question is therefore can I toggle the current user context from within my PL/SQL process between the user associated with the concurrent program and a new user I will create for OCR sourced data? If so, how would I do this? This would enable the end-user to see either EFORM or OCR when viewing 'Created By' in the EBS application.
Bagpuss

Answer 1

fnd_client_info.setup_client_info(appl_id, resp_id, user_id)
Use the appropriate appl_id, resp_id and user_id (of the OCR user).
Hope this helps.
Sandeep Gandhi