Creating A Custom Independent Value Set in Oracle Fusion HCM Cloud Application

Creating a Custom Independent Value Set in Oracle Fusion HCM Cloud Application
By: Ashish Harbhajanka
Introduction
Before we start to demonstrate how to create a Custom Independent Value Set lets try to understand what
is meant by a Value Set.
In Context of Oracle HCM Cloud Application (applicable for Oracle E-Business Suite too) a value set is a
group of valid values that you assign to a flex-field segment ( to control the values that are stored for
business object attributes.
An end user enters a value for an attribute of a business object while using the application. The flex-field
validates the value against the set of valid values that you configured as a value set and assigned to the
segment.
For example, you can define a required format, such as a five-digit number, or a list of valid values, such
as green, red, and blue.
In this article, we will create a very simple Independent Value Set (RECORDS_TO_SHOW which holds
numeric values like 1,2,3,4,5 )
Navigation
In order to create a new value set we would need to login to application with a user having appropriate
login credentials (Application Implementation Administrator works for me) and choose ‘Manage Value
Sets’ Task under ‘Setup and Maintenance’
Navigator->Setup and Maintenance->Manage Value Sets
Creating a Custom Independent Value Set

Once we click on ‘Manage Value Sets’ a new page would open which would allow us to search for
existing value sets as well as allow creation of new ones
Now if we click on the (+) Icon under Search Results Section it would open up a new window
Also once you select the Module (Global Human Resources for this example) , Validation Type
(Independent in this case) and Valid Data Type (Number for this case) new field would appear as shown
Note: Attributes prefixed by asterisk denote mandatory fields.

We would populate the following details to create the Value Set
Attribute Name Attribute Value

*Value Set Code RECORDS_TO_SHOW
Description Custom Independent Value Set of Number Type
used to display the number of records to be shown
*Module Global Human Resources
*Validation Type Independent
*Value Data Type Number
Security Enabled
Data Security Resource Name
Precision
Scale
Minimum Value 1
Maximum Value 9999
Once populated the UI would appear as below:
Next, we need to Click on ‘Save’ Option and the Value Set will be saved.
Creating Values for the Value Set
We need to click on the ‘Manage Values’ button to create new values
Once we click on ‘Manage Values’ it would bring up the below screen
We can now click on (+) icon to create new values
We would populate just few entries based on below info
*Value Description Enabled Start Date End Date Sort Order

1 Numeral 1 Yes 01/01/1951
2 Numeral 2 Yes 01/01/1951
3 Numeral 3 Yes 01/01/1951
4 Numeral 4 Yes 01/01/1951
5 Numeral 5 Yes 01/01/1951
Once the above details are populated and saved in the application the screen would appear as shown
below:
Now the Value Set Creation is complete

Verification
We would now try to validate whether the Value Set has been created. For this we would try to perform a
search on the ‘Manage Value Sets’ screen using Value Set Name as RECORDS_TO_SHOW
Fetching Value Set Values Using Query

Now since we have a Value Set already created, some of us (techies specially) might even be interested to
know whether we can fetch the Value Set values using a query.
So let-us see how to do that
We need to make use of two tables namely FND_FLEX_VALUE_SETS (holds value set property related
details) and FND_FLEX_VALUES (holds actual values)
The SQL Query to be used is:
SQL Query
select ffv.flex_value
from fnd_flex_value_sets ffvs,
fnd_flex_values ffv
where ffv.flex_value_set_id = ffvs.flex_value_set_id
and ffvs.flex_value_set_name = 'RECORDS_TO_SHOW'
and ffv.enabled_flag = 'Y'
and TRUNC(SYSDATE) BETWEEN NVL(ffv.start_date_active,SYSDATE) and
NVL(ffv.end_date_active,SYSDATE+1)
And once we use this in a Data Model we would get the data values as output
And with this we have come to the end of the article. Hope you guys had a good time reading this article.

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Creating a Custom Independent Value Set in Oracle Fusion HCM Cloud Application

By: Ashish Harbhajanka

Creating a Custom Independent Value Set

Note: Attributes prefixed by asterisk denote mandatory fields.

We would populate the following details to create the Value Set

Attribute Name Attribute Value

Once populated the UI would appear as below:

Once we click on ‘Manage Values’ it would bring up the below screen

We can now click on (+) icon to create new values

We would populate just few entries based on below info

*Value Description Enabled Start Date End Date Sort Order

Now the Value Set Creation is complete

Fetching Value Set Values Using Query

The SQL Query to be used is:

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