Printing and Publishing

This chapter covers the following topics:

Overview of Printing

The ability to print a quote allows you to offer customers hard copies of quotes created in Oracle Quoting.

The printouts for Print Quote vary depending on whether or not the quote is executable. A quote is executable if there is a valid transition from the current quote status to Order Submitted status.

The non-executable Print Quote report displays key information available to you in the Oracle Quoting UI in addition to a customizable disclaimer.

The Signature block is added if the quote is executable.

The printing functionality in Quoting is implemented through Oracle XML Publisher. You can choose between two output formats: PDF format or Rich Text Format (RTF).

The print layout defaults based on the value defined in the profile option ASO: Default Layout Template.

See also:

Printing a Quote

Printing a Quote

Prerequisites

Notes

Field Behavior

Overview of Publishing Quotes

Sales representatives have the ability to share quotes with customers by web publishing. A quote version may be web published if it meets all of the following conditions:

If the customer is of type Person, the sales representative publishes the quote directly to the customer. If the customer is of type Organization, the sales representative publishes the quote to the contact. A quote version can only be published to an FND_USER. If the customer is not an FND_USER, the sales representative can create an FND_USER for the customer by entering a user name when attempting to publish a quote.

See also:

Web Publishing a Quote

Prerequisites

Notes

Field Behavior

Unpublishing a Quote

Prerequisites

To unpublish a previously published quote, select Web Unpublish from the Actions LOV.

Viewing Sales Representative Assistance Requests

When a customer requests sales representative assistance for a shopping cart or quote via iStore, you can view the assistance request in the quote.

There could be two flows in such a scenario. When a customer requests for assistance from iStore during online shopping, a quote is created and the request is visible in the quote. A customer can also request for assistance after a quote is published to a web store.

Prerequisites

Field Behavior